Zinfandel

Back to Brown Estate – for Zin this time (#winePW)

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I don’t usually reach for Zinfandel (sorry, Zin fans). Too overly ripe and jammy for my tastes. Or it that just my perception of Zin? Over the past decade or so, wine reviewers have noticed a return to balance in Zinfandel winemaking. According to Joel Peterson, the so-called “Godfather of Zinfandel,” the best Zins highlight […]

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Primitivo: Zin’s not quite identical twin (#ItalianFWT)

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Expect the unexpected – in wine as in life – that’s my new mantra. Not sure what I was expecting when I poured my first Primitivo from Puglia in southern Italy. Yes, it’s genetically the twin of Zinfandel, the popular California grape variety. But these twins grew up an ocean apart – in different terroir

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