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Default Wine tasting, no alcohol
On 2015-04-14, > wrote:

> I have but I wouldn't have called it robust.

You gotta try a few more. I've had about a half a dozen bottles of CA
zin, over the yrs. that were proof positive wine is a still-living
breathing thing. Every sip from the glass totally different than the
previous. In a good way. I even gave up a prized zin to a tasting at
an up-scale wine shop. The owners were dumbfounded. This zin was
from Santa Barbara.

Look for "old vine" zins. Zin vines are not uprooted and replanted
every 7-10 yrs. Some CA zins are 100 yrs old. Plus, zin has a very
high sugar content, so alcohol content is high. I never buy a zin
with less than 14.5%abv. I've had non-dessert vins as high as 17%.
Dessert vins get scary. Eighteen to twent-one percent abv. Bring
$$$$.

I've also had a local pinot noir that rocked my boat. So robust, it
was "chewy" (real wine tasting term).

nb
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