Welcome to the fourth installment of The Week in Zinfandel. If I missed your post or story please send me a link and I will be sure to include it next week. Cheers! Cliff Brown reviews the 2009 Carlisle Zinfandel Papera Ranch. Garrett Snyder of Los Angeles Magazine writes A Brief History of White Zinfandel. T.J. Foderaro of Inside Jersey…
Welcome to the third installment of The Week in Zinfandel. If I missed your post or story please send me a link and I will be sure to include it next week. Cheers! Virginia Pour House writes about Storybook Mountain Vineyards. Ted Scheffler of the Salt Lake City Weekly writes about Ravenswood Wines. Eric Asimov of the NY Times, in…
Welcome to the second rendition of The Week in Zinfandel. If I missed your post or article please drop me a note and I will be sure to include it next week. Salud! Musings on the Vine writes about the 2011 Rosenblum Cellars Zinfandel Contra Costa County. Liz Young of the Columbus Dispatch writes about Zanon Cellars. George Edwards of…
I’m excited to introduce a new feature on Zinfandel Chronicles. Each week I will publish a compilation of Zinfandel related content collected from blogs and writers I follow. Welcome to The Week in Zinfandel. As always I appreciate your feedback and interaction. Cheers! Michelle Williams of Rockin Red Blog writes about Cline Cellars: A Zinful Celebration Paul Draper of Ridge…
Great Zinfandel is made in the vineyard. The quality of a bottle of Zinfandel is almost always correlated with the age of the vineyard from which it comes. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the state of California where most of the best Zinfandels come from vineyards that literally date back to the turn of the 20th century. The…
In years past it seemed like mailers for Spring wine delivery arrived in an orderly fashion over the first three months of the year. This year, however, virtually every winery I follow decided to release their wines in the month of January. Below are some quick thoughts on the mailers that have arrived so far: Quilceda Creek – Prices are…
The January Installment of Pick My Next Bottle focuses on some old bottles from several of my very favorite Chateaux. I mentioned in the first installment, the purpose of this series is to provide insight into specific wines or producers you may currently have in your cellar. The winning bottle will be opened this Saturday and a Bottle Note will…
Mailers from Betz and Quilceda Creek have already arrived. Save the date emails from Sojourn and Outpost are in my inbox. I’ve seen confirmations from the winery that Saxum and Rivers-Marie are only a week or two out. The biannual battle of trying to juggle mortgage payments, school tuition and wine purchases has begun. For better or worse, mailing list season…
Year end always seems like a good time to take stock of the wine cellar and think about how you might want to change your approach in the up coming year. I’ve been at this wine hobby this for a long time so there is no need for a radical overhaul. I do though plan to make some minor changes…
As I was thinking about the focus of Zinfandel Chronicles in 2014, I took a moment to look at what posts in 2013 generated the most traffic (excluding most Bottle Notes and Pick My Next Bottle polls). Since many of you just recently started reading my blog (thank you!), I thought I’d put together a list of the most popular…