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With the Barham Mendelsohn label, Jim stretches his Pinot potential to include one of California's best growing...
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Concentrated raspberry tart and plum paste flavors show lively floral notes that are backed by firm acidity and...
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An estate-grown wine given 30% whole-cluster fermentation, this is a fleshy and lively red wine, broad in appeal and...
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This full-bodied and full-flavored wine from a high-elevation vineyard is packed with ripe juicy plum and raspberry...
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Beautiful. Ripe black cherry, plum, spice, licorice, cedar and new leather are some of the many notes that emerge...
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The 2018 Pinot Noir Doc's Ranch Vineyard Pommard is forward with turned mineral earth, fresh cherry fruit, and dried...
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Always true to its feminine name, the 2018 Emmaline Ann Pinot Noir is a textbook showing of the most understated and...
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Shows accents of fresh-cracked white pepper to the dried red fruit and berry flavors, which are framed by crunchy...
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Floral aromatics of violets and red flowers, with a bright palate of fresh yet salty berry and dense but ripe,...
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• 100% Zinfandel.
• Sourced from estate vineyard in St. Helena.
• All native fermentation.
• Aged for 11...
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OVERALL IMPRESSION: Dark colour and a nose with notes of spices and
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Concentrated but also nervy in texture, this full-bodied wine is driven by pure black-cherry and raspberry flavors...
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Rich, dark and full bodied, this expansive wine is full of black-fruit flavors and smoky oak, all wrapped in a...
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Dark cherry and raspberry flavors with tinges of bay leaf and clove.
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Clean, aromatic and varietally spot-on, this draws upon excellent raw material to craft a no-pretense, solidly built...
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This is a blend of several parcels at Iron Horse, named for the Goldridge soils that dominate these rolling Green...
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Rich, bing cherry and leather on the nose, with underlying notes of baking spices. On the palate, acid highlights...
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As always, a blend of Swan’s vineyard designated Pinot Noir. Every Pinot Noir is made to be the best it can be with...
Pinot Noir Zinfandel 2018 United States California 750ml
Regularly described as being the grape varietal responsible for producing the world's most romantic wines, Pinot Noir has long been associated with elegance and a broad range of flavors The name means 'black pine' in French, and this is due to the fact that the fruit of this particular varietal is especially dark in color, and hangs in a conical shape, like that of a pine cone. Despite being grown today in almost every wine producing country, Pinot Noir is a notoriously difficult grape variety to cultivate. This is because it is especially susceptible to various forms of mold and mildew, and thrives best in steady, cooler climates. However, the quality of the fruit has ensured that wineries and vintners have persevered with the varietal, and new technologies and methods have overcome many of the problems it presents. Alongside this, the wide popularity and enthusiasm for this grape has ensured it will remain a firm favorite amongst wine drinkers for many years to come.
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.