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| Community Tasting Notes (average 85 pts. and median of 85 pts. in 2 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | Tasted by Hazeo on 2/28/2009 & rated 85 points: Pretty nice smooth drink, but too jammy for my taste. (1546 views) | | Tasted by Caring_Bear on 11/7/2008: Had a single glass before dinner at Craft in LA, so I will reserve a numerical rating for when I can pop a bottle myself. On the nose this has fairly distinctive zin characteristics, but a little muted - rasberries, blueberries?, dark spice, nutmeg, and oak. On the tongue it's less defining - there is plum and berry, but the oak is stronger than I prefer in my zins and there is considerable heat still. This was my first exposure to Bugay so I look forward to revisiting a bottle of my own, but this first impression was not a home run. (1783 views) |
| Bugay Vineyards Producer Website | YouTube videoZinfandel ZAP: Zinfandel Advocates & Producers | Varietal character (Appellation America) | Wikipedia-ZinfandelUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma CountySonoma Coast |
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