Cimarosa Californian Zinfandel Rosé

Similar sounding wines can be very, very different.

You know how it goes: We liked that bottle of Chateau Wotsit last time, so we try it again and we’re very disappointed. Why? What went wrong?

Well there’s a good chance we’d unwittingly picked, say, the merlot 2010 when in fact the one we’d enjoyed before was a 2011 cabernet merlot. It’s a bit like cars — even when the make is the same, different models are designed to do different things and perhaps only one or two of them might suit you.