On 15 Jan 2007 08:52:29 -0800, "DaleW" > wrote:

>Ed, thanks for Geezer note. I'm hoping mine doesn't show a watery
>finsh.
>Mark, my percentages are close, 73% of my Zin/Zin blends are Ridge. But
>I actually don't cellar much Zin, usually preferring younger, so it's
>73% of a small number (the remainder is Biale Crane Ranch and a lone
>bottle of 1959 late harvest Primitivo- really).

Now you've gone and done it. You wrote the "P" word, which means we'll
shortly get a discourse on the superiority of Italian wines and the
necessity to only consume them with Pugliese cuisine cooked by a
76-yr-old widow with a moustache and black shawl who is related by her
first marriage to a cardinal from Vicenza.

Of course you must not allow the wine to be aerated or "breathe" which
will ruin it. In fact, for a late-harvest Primitivo of that age, you
will probably need to drill a small hole through the cork to insert a
straw and then sip the wine slowly while holding the bottle in a brown
paper bag.

Standing by for an output from Uranus Conglomeration. ;-)


Ed Rasimus
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