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A monster Monterey Peninsula Winery 1976 Zinfandel finally isdrinkable
On 10/10/11 6:32 PM, cwdjrxyz wrote:
> The wine is Monterey Peninsula Winery 1976 Amador Zinfandel, Ferrero > Ranch, Late Harvest (dry). It contains 15.5% alcohol with residual > sugar of only 0.2%. The bottle was properly stored since release, and > there were no cork or other issues. > > There were many Zinfandels and other red monsters made in California > in the 1970s. Some of the wines of David Bruce come to mind. However > this wine is the most extreme that I can recall. Many monsters such as > this are undrinkable when young having extreme excess of tannins. This > wine, even at 10 years, was about as good as a very green persimmon. > However the wine is now ready to drink. It still has considerable > fruit and is dry enough to serve with stronger red meats including > game. It is a quite decent wine although a bit overblown for my taste. > There is still considerable tannin, but not excessive. The color is > still quite dark with only mild evidence of age around the rim. There > is still plenty of dark fruit character in the bouquet and taste. > > Some information from the back label is interesting. The wine is said > to be the biggest and most intense Zinfandel the winery had ever > produced. The grapes were picked at 28% sugar by weight. 1976 was a > very dry year. The grapes were very small, almost the size of > currants. The wine was aged in old neutral oak cask, since the last > thing it needed was more tannin from oak. It was said that the wine > needed age. One could drink it early as a learning experience. Thanks for this note. I recall with great fondness the '78 Zinfandel from Monterey Peninsula Winery, source not noted. Jean and I discovered a cache of it in a store in New York City back in '86/'87 when we were graduate students and proceeded to polish off their stock over the course of a cold NYC Winter Mark Lipton -- alt.food.wine FAQ: http://winefaq.cwdjr.net |
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