Sun Drinks Gift Guide: Big Smooth

I’m not one to pick up niche wines, let alone wine based on labels, but this one is too fun to pass up.

Big Smooth is Don & Sons newest big release is a homage to “sensual tackiness” that will give a good laugh to holiday guests and hosts and fill everyone’s glasses, on a budget, at the holiday table.

You aren’t buying this wine for the wine enthusiast – think movie fanatics, those with a good sense of humor, and new wine drinkers in your life.

A purple velvet (yes, it’s velvet!) label is decorated with the famed leg lamp of A Christmas Story fame, making this 2013 Old Vine Zinfandel an obvious choice for the movie fan in your life. In fact, it’s the first wine label in industry to have a velvet label.

The fruit is from Sonoma, Lodi and Napa and is aged for 14 months. It has deep fruit overtones with a warm, spiced (think vanilla) finish that big markets like in their Zin. Stonefruit, plum, fig and a bit of raisin balance the primary flavors of this charming inexpensive bottle. ($17.99 retail)

Explore other gift ideas for the foodie and drink lover in your life in our 2015 Gift Guide.