2023 Bedrock Old Vine Zinfandel

2023 Bedrock Old Vine ZinfandelIs there a better portrait of Old School, Old Vine California? That's simultaneously a perfect picture of everywhere new school Californian winemakers want to be going? If it exists, we don't know it. Morgan Twain Peterson is a great winemaker with access to some of the oldest, most fabulous vineyards in the state (some dating back to the 1880's).. Its core still revolves around Sonoma Valley oldies (Bedrock Vineyard, Monte Rosso, and Casa

Dominique Lafon is among the great legends of white burgundy

Its maker is arguably the greatest Cornas-maker of the 21st century

sometimes in the same taste

A warm fire and some cheese and salumi

And no one had ever water skied

purchased by her family in 1988

or enjoying it on a cool evening when the fog is rolling into Berkeley off the bay

you mean beautiful

There's a complex but inviting tension here

Veggie timbales

it's gloppy and muddy on the palate

and dense minerality