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The 2019 Homestead is a bold, powerful, Grenache-based blend. Intense red fruit, cedar, spice, tobacco, menthol and...
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A medium-bodied California red wine, Black Box Red Blend enters with a rich and full palate. Our Red Blend has notes...
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A complex, well-crafted and inviting wine that shows tobacco and vanilla bean notes alongside generous plum,...
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I loved the nose on the 2019 Arise Proprietary Red, and it's loaded with red and black fruits, darker herbs,...
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The 2021 Arise, a blend of 55% Cabernet Franc, 18% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 8% Petit Verdot, and 4% Zinfandel,...
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The 2016 Paramour is one of the best wines I have tasted from Blackbird. Dark, succulent and inviting, the 2016...
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Notes of currant, laurel and cinnamon harmonize with accents of pomegranate, blood orange and cherry followed by...
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Our proprietary red blend is made in an approachable style that is simply delicious on release. It is a blend of...
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This dark-purple-hued wine is opulent, with aromas of boysenberries, blue fruits, frankincense, violets and spiced...
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This wine is deep, opulent dark garnet hued with aromas of Black currant compote, blackberry, cumin, florals, and...
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Flavors of cranberries and raspberries, leading to notes of red fruits, marionberry pie and baking spices.
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Deep red and purple in color, this wine has welcoming aromas of dark fruits with a tinge of licorice. A sip reveals a...
750ml
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This classic, pioneering Rhône red continues inspiring the masses. The blend of 65% Grenache, 18% Syrah, 15% Cinsaut...
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Twice a year, the sun crosses the celestial equator, resulting in a day and night of equal length. These occurrences...
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This Zinfandel offers aromas of blueberry, black stone fruit and black pepper. Polished tannins and flavors of...
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Bottled late, the 2020 Perl is based on 91% Syrah and 9% Grenache that spent 24 months in 50% new oak. Coming from...
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The 2017 Bootleg Red Wine checks in as 73% Cabernet Sauvignon and 27% Merlot that's mostly from Howell Mountain, yet...
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This rich, purple-hued red wine is rich with aromas of dark berries, baking spices and espresso. On the palate,...
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TASTING NOTES Nighthawk Black Rich Red Wine is dark, bold and fruity with aromas and flavors of blackberry pie and...
Red Blend Zinfandel United States California Oregon
The precise origins of what became known as the Zinfandel grape variety are uncertain, although it has clear genetic equivalents in both Puglia and Croatia. However, when it was brought to the New World in the mid 19th century, it became known as the Zinfandel, and has been consistently popular and widely grown ever since. These very dark and very round grapes have a remarkably high sugar content, resulting in relatively high levels of alcohol in the wines they are made into, with bottles often displaying as much as fifteen percent. What makes the Zinfandel such an interesting grape, though, is the fact that the flavors produced by this varietal vary considerably depending on the climate they are grown in. In cooler valley regions, the Zinfandel grapes result in wines which hold strong flavors of tart and sweet fruits; raspberry, redcurrant and sweet cherry, held in a very smooth and silky liquid. Conversely, warmer regions result in more complex and spicy notes, including anise, pepper and hedgerow berries.
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.
California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.
The beautiful state of Oregon has, over the past few decades, become increasingly well known and respected for its wine industry, with several small but significant wineries within the state receiving world wide attention for the quality of their produce. Whilst the first vineyards within Oregon were planted in the 1840s, the state's wine industry didn't really take off until the 1960s, when several wine producers from California discovered that the cooler regions of the state were ideal for cultivating various fine grape varietals. Today, Oregon has over four hundred and fifty wineries in operation, the vast majority of which are used for the production of wines made from Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir varietal grapes, both of which thrive in the valleys and mountainsides which characterise the landscape of the state.