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Just about anything that Rosenblum makes is great.
*************Doran said:I have not tried it in years, but it was great around 2002.
The Zinfandel style of wine really popped in California. It comes from a grape called Primitivo, from Italy. You can get Primitivo wine here, but it's not made the same way as a good strong California Zinfandel.
John in Covina said:*************
Primitivo is the base grape but Zinds have been made here for over a hundred years and really seems to showcase the terroir here in an exceptionally way. Dry Creek, lodi, Paso Robles, you can get a real sense of location from the wine.
They still stumble across abandoned vineyards with old vines that they clone for one of the Cal universities and Seghisio which is a great maker is involved with saving old vine zinds too.
blacklagoon said:I remember,during the eighties,european wine makers use to slag off californian wines.the magazines and newspapers were full of journalists,who were suddenly expert wine tasters.It is only recently,about the past 10 years,to my knowledge,that the french wine merchants have begun to accept that californian wines are actually better than french wines.I have seen a couple of t.v programmes were this was discussed,and eventually concluded.t.v wine experts are also beginning to glorify californian wines,where as 10 years ago,they would have followed the media trend of bitching about them all.
wldthistle said:I'm also a fan of zins, and will echo the praise for Ravenswood. Maybe not the most exciting, but you generally can't go wrong, especially with one of their Old Vine Zins. Another good one is 7 Deadly Zins, which is from Lodi.
************Willys Gal said:I laughed so hard when DutchIndo mentioned "2-Buck Chuck". I am guilty of indulging in that winelol ... It's tasty! I enjoy it.
Willys Gal
Willys Gal said:Hi all,
I laughed so hard when DutchIndo mentioned "2-Buck Chuck". I am guilty of indulging in that winelol ... It's tasty! I enjoy it. I just recycled an empty bottle of Chuck's Cabernet Sauvignon. Time for a TJ's expedition!
Nothing like a glass of the above mentioned wine with a TJ's Chocolate Lava Cake:eusa_clap
Willys Gal
John in Covina said:************
It is sort of an equation to arrive at a value. If i remember right, Trader Joes made an arrangement to get all of the left overs in grape production and had a winery do their thing. Low cost and decent production equals an unbeatable value. Wine is a strange thing when it come to value, the good stuff really tends to cost, but a run to Beverages and More can show you that there are $10 wines as good as or better than a lot of $15-20 wines, and some $20 wines that can beat out a $35-40 wineand so forth. I have been with friends and we have bought some for those uber wines and you taste it and ask was this worth the money.
That is why i am happiest finding really good inexpensive wines.
Haversack said:Now there would be a project. Try to reconstruct Falernian as a drinkable wine. The Viticulture and Enology Department at Davis has been around a long time. They even managed to survive Prohibition. They are also one of the world's repositories for rootstock..
Lincsong said:Three separate neighbors of my parents make their own wine and brandy in their homes near Oakland.
Doran said:Can't go wrong with any old vine Zins from Lodi, California, I must reiterate.