From: Mendocino County, Calif.
Price: $16
Serve with: Red meats, pasta, roast chicken
If you love red wine but it gives you headaches, this may be the wine for you. It's advertised as being free of sulfite, the preservative that is the culprit behind the headaches. Made by the well-known organic winery Frey Vineyards, the Field Blend combines merlot, cabernet sauvignon, syrah and petite sirah in an amazingly vibrant blend with explosive blackberry and blueberry flavors. It's really a fruit bomb — in a good way. The caveat is that preservatives are used in most wines for a reason; I'd be careful not to keep this wine too long or to store it in a warm place.
--Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun