Welcome to the latest 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! Toledo Wine and Vines writes Unique Terroir Fuels Paso Robles Zinfandel Excellence. Monique Soltani writes about the ZAP Simply Summer Celebration. The Reverse Wine Snob reviews the…
Welcome to the 3rd, annual installment, of the Zinfandel Chronicles Power Rankings. The intent behind the list was to rank wineries based on the buzz and excitement they create in the wine collecting crowd. The rankings are entirely subjective based on my observations on sites like Twitter, Facebook, Wine Spectator, Wine Berserkers and Cellartracker. I’ve ranked the wineries below and…
Welcome to the latest 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! Clifford Brown reviews the 2010 Novy Family Zinfandel Russian River Valley. European Travel Magazine writes about The Birthplace of Zinfandel. In Mama Maggie’s Kitchen reviews the 2011…
Welcome to the latest 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! Natalie Maclean writes 5 Surprising Facts About Zinfandel. Gregory Dal Piaz of Snooth writes about Blind Tasting 2012 Zinfandel. Sherri Housman writes about Dutcher Crossing. Sunset Magazine…
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…