California Heartland Reds
REDS originated in 1995 as "a wine for the People". What the world needs is a complex and affordable wine that can be enjoyed daily with a range of foods from burgers to robust pastas. Enter Reds We make Reds from spicy and earthy 116 year old carignane (30%), hearty and fruity 70 year old zinfandel (60%), and robust and deeply colored petite syrah. About 20,000 cases.
!ZAZIN - In 1999 we discovered a 106 year old zinfandel vineyard in the gravelly soils of Lodi, which yielded such intense wine in the fermenter that we aged a portion of it separately in new French oak barrels, leaving the remainder to bolster the Reds blend. We were so delighted with the dark, exotic, and spicy result that each year since we have made some 2000 cases.
REDS originated in 1995 as "a wine for the People". What the world needs is a complex and affordable wine that can be enjoyed daily with a range of foods from burgers to robust pastas. Enter Reds We make Reds from spicy and earthy 116 year old carignane (30%), hearty and fruity 70 year old zinfandel (60%), and robust and deeply colored petite syrah. About 20,000 cases.
!ZAZIN - In 1999 we discovered a 106 year old zinfandel vineyard in the gravelly soils of Lodi, which yielded such intense wine in the fermenter that we aged a portion of it separately in new French oak barrels, leaving the remainder to bolster the Reds blend. We were so delighted with the dark, exotic, and spicy result that each year since we have made some 2000 cases.
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2007 ZaZin, Old Vine Zinfandel, Lodi |
| Let's just begin by stating that the 2007 !ZaZin is the best !ZaZin we have ever produced. We'll get back to the details, but first......customers still ask us to explain the difference between REDS and !ZaZin, so here goes:
!ZaZin
From a single 108 year old zinfandel vineyard in the sandy southern region of Lodi
15% petite syrah added for color and heft
Aged in 75% new gallon French and American oak barrels for 15 months
A reserve wine that is not produced every year, depending on quality
Aged at Laurel Glen winery
A Wine for the People some of the time
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2008 REDS, Lodi |
| REDS 2008 gets us back to the traditional style of REDS. Where 2007 was very warm and punctuated by several heat spikes, the 2008 season was moderate and even. Both wines reflected their particular growing conditions. But where the 2007 verged on the extravagant, the 2008 is considerably more restrained and interesting. More Details |
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