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In Reply to: Aging zins. posted by jimbill on January 4, 2006 at 15:00:52:

...Rosenblum is local about 30 minutes away and has quarterly open houses with music and food. I remember going to one last year where they had 32 different wines to taste (although only a portion were zins). Their biggest zins were 17% alcohol.
You were warned going in that they poured 1oz tastes, so if you drank them all, it would be the equivalent of drinking two bottles of wine!
Talk about sneaking up on you...

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Forgot Seghesio... - jimbill 20:50:13 01/04/06 (1)
Another great zin maker. Their Sonoma blend is consistently good juice.
As for the alcohol problem(?), isn't it only within +/- 3%? So zin makers can fudge a bit to get that big effect and make you think it's only 15% when it's really 18%?
That Rosenblum might have been a port.
- Agree... - mkuller 15:07:35 01/05/06 (0)
  ...about Seghesio, which is another Dry Creek favorite.
  The 17% alcohol Rosenblum wasn't a port, although they make four in that style - a late harvest zin, a zin port (my favorite), a chocolate port and a vanilla port.
  You've got to make a lot of different wines to have 32 available in a single tasting.
  One of the highlights of their openhouse tastings is zinfandel ice cream from a local shop. Delicious!

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