I love it when wine gets to be its own character in a great novel—so my hopes were high when Zinfandel made a daring appearance on page 4 of Freedom, Jonathan Franzen’s much-discussed latest book. In introducing the main female character, Franzen writes: Behind her you could see the baby-encumbered preparations for a morning of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Zinfandel’
The Story Arc of Wine
Posted in Wine Lit, tagged Chardonnay, Zinfandel on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
6 Zins that Stood Out at ZAP
Posted in Tasting Adventures, Wine Picks, tagged Amador County, Dry Creek Valley, Guglielmo, Ravenswood, Sonoma, ZAP, Zinfandel, Zinfandel Festival on January 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A bad cold kept me from attending last Saturday’s 20th annual Zinfandel Festival Grand Tasting, presented by ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates & Producers) in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. Luckily my overqualified envoy was happy to taste some 50 California Zins, and he’s provided this list of six that stood out: 2007 Carol Shelton Rocky Reserve [...]
The Markup on Lust in Lodi
Posted in Wine Facts, tagged Central Valley, Lodi, ZAP, Zinfandel, Zinfandel Advocates & Producers Festival on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A few years ago I used my old wine column to write a love letter of sorts to Lodi, California. My newfound Lodi love was based on the many good, inexpensive wines made from Lodi-grown grapes that I’d tasted at that year’s Zinfandel Advocates & Producers Festival (ZAP) in San Francisco. That was early 2008. [...]
Zinful Thoughts
Posted in Wine Facts, tagged Amador County, Corti Brothers, Darrell Corti, Ravenswood, Zinfandel on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Writing about Zinfandel for the October issue (see “Original Zin”) got me thinking about my personal connection to the varietal, and how that’s changed over the years. Zinfandel didn’t really enter my consciousness until 1999, when I first moved to the Bay Area and a friend gave me a bottle of Ravenswood Zin as a [...]
Happy Harvest
Posted in Wine Facts, Wine Picks, tagged Bon Anno, Cabernet Sauvignon, harvest, Napa Valley, Zinfandel on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I mentioned in my last (and so far only) post that my husband is a winemaker, so during the harvest months of September and October, his long work days begin before dawn, and his weekends are nonexistent. You can therefore imagine the twinge of panic we felt upon learning that our first child’s due date [...]
