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Isaac Wingfield
 
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Dave Smith > wrote:

> wrote:
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> > Whats wrong with a decent Zin ? A good California Zinfandel will have
> > plenty of body, some bordering on barbaric. Perhaps you have only had
> > white Zin, which is certainly a market driven perversion.

>
> I have never had the pleasure of trying one of the good California
> Zinfandels. Any other Zinfandel I have ever tried has been more like a
> watered down Rose. That's not to say that there aren't any. I usually use
> a red. Brandy will do too.


Some of them, properly aged, can be a real treat -- but not a cheap one.

Trentadue, a small winery in the Sonoma Valley, comes to mind.

Isaac