BevMo Wine Tasting

Went to a Saturday afternoon wine tasting at BevMo last weekend. The theme was wines to go with your BBQ. Tasted 12 wines, plus a "mystery" wine where we had to guess the grapes. I think I guesses 2 of the 3 in the mix. Not bad. Anyway, the wines were all good. We like reds that go with bbq and spicy foods, so all these Zinfandels, Petite Sirahs, Sirahs were great for us. But in the end we bought a wine that wasn't on the tasting. It was a Mettler Petite Sirah. The guy running the wine tasting was really talking it up to us and so we were convinced we had to try it. $20, big and fruity. It was excellent. Check it out if you are into Petite Sirah. We've been drinking the McManis Petite Sirah for a couple years now and it's our favorite. (It's only about 10 bucks so you can't beat it). We will have to taste the 2 side by side and see which we like better. I can justify the McManis as an everyday wine, but maybe not the Mettler. I can only hope that someday our wine budget will allow a $20 wine to be everyday.

The wine guy at Trader Joes told me to try the Twin Fin Shiraz. I thought it was really good. I think it cost about $6. Any comments on it?