Zinfandel Wine Country, Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County, CA
19nov05
I feel good, i don't need sports bars, sitting in my hotel room with the
police sirens in the foreground, I'm drinking an Estate Zinfandel,
Wilson Winery, 2002, Dry Creek Valley, Sawyer Vineyard, in a glass i
bought for one dollar in a Goodwill store on polk street, and on this
glass is engraved in a stylish font: Healdsburg Lavender Festival. I
bought this glass before i tasted this wine, which is the present from
Diane. Even no one sees me in my room, I'm dressed up in a classic style
for this strong wine, I'm handsome as the devil, as the line of Kevin
Costner goes to the boy in the movie *Perfect World*. Again it's funny
that the glass and the wine are from the same place by chance. When in
California and drinking red wine, if i can, i will opt for Zinfandel.
All other wines they grow in Europe, but not Zinfandel. Still this might
be the California grape, i guess so, that this is the grape in southern
Switzerland they re imported 100 years ago, after a disease killed the
local grapes, and is called now: *AMERICANA*. In Switzerland, this
Americana grape is not for wine making, but a table grape for eating,
small berries, very sweet with a soft skin, a very delicious grape, my
favorite grape besides *Muscat De Hambourg* of Provence and the white
grape *Chasselas*. All other grapes for eating have no chance to these 3
varieties, all other grapes are in taste boring. A good ripe Chasselas
has golden cheeks, most other white grapes are uniformly green, light
green, dark green, it doesn't matter what green, but green and never
gold. And as plane green they are, they also taste plane boring.
Chasselas is a superb tasting grape, and they also look visually
appealing, i never understood how people could buy these plain boring
white grapes in a uniform green color.
This is good wine, says a man not in a gray flannel suit, this is what it says on the label:
our Sawyer Vineyard is located on the bench lands off West Dry Creek
Road near Bradford Mountain in the Heart of Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma
County. We are a small family owned and operated winery specializing in handcrafted small lots of carefully selected grapes. Come visit us at
our tasting room in our historic facility, one of the oldest bounded
wineries in California.
Stylish Zinfandel Wine Tasting And Football watching in the Heart Of Zinfandel Country.
I did id with great pleasure. Thank you for the wine, prost Diane!