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| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Drinking window: Drink between 2018 and 2021 (based on 41 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 83.8 pts. and median of 87 pts. in 11 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Inukytucky on 8/16/2019 & rated 65 points: As Melvin says..typical sweet US wine. Is this typical? I would say typical to the long list of some of the horrific wine coming out of CA to appease those who do not have a clue of what good wine is. Would you like a glass of Apothic? Lol😄 And this is what this wine reminds me of. I do not have to explain more of the expletives in more detail as Forceberry has laid this out perfectly. No this wine is not typical to all US Zins because i do constantly search them out with great success. Anyone in for Seghesio Family.....private reserve Ravenswood Old Vines...JellyJar? (597 views) | | | Tasted by MelVin on 10/19/2018 & rated 87 points: Typical US wine. Ripe fruits, dark, chocolate finish and some spice. Kind of sweet as well. (866 views) | | | Tasted by SlimShaney on 7/13/2018 & rated 90 points: Thin sweet sugary seduction with a mysterious hint of darkness this time. Nice! (980 views) | | | Tasted by Papies on 5/16/2018 & rated 88 points: By the glass at the BA lounge, LHR and the last small glass for the bottle.
Quite a dark fruited expression of Zind, decent use of oak and well ripened/ extracted. Good wine but felt a bit heavy in a way. 88 (1110 views) | | | Tasted by SlimShaney on 4/24/2018 & rated 90 points: A good extracted Zin with burnt vanilla infused raspberry. (983 views) | | | Tasted by forceberry on 2/3/2018 & rated 69 points: 14,5% alcohol, 4 g/l residual sugar, 5,2 g/l acidity. Tasted blind in VV.
Quite deep and very slightly translucent purple color. Ridiculously sweet, sugary nose with cloying aromas of blueberry jam, cardamom and other sweet baking spices, some cherry marmalade and a little bit of vanilla. This smells like mulled wine, not like red wine. The wine is ripe, soft and full-bodied on the palate with very sweet-toned flavors of vanilla, blueberry jam, cocoa, some Christmas spices and a hint of cherry marmalade. The wine is lacking structure badly with its low acidity and no noticeable tannins. The finish is soft, short and jammy with flavors of vanilla, cherry marmalade, some blueberry jam, a little bit of cardamom and a hint of overripe strawberry.
This would be quite nice effort for a dry-ish mulled wine, but I'd be downright offended if someone would pour me this when I asked for a red wine. This is a disgrace to everything that is Zinfandel. Who drinks this kind of cloying sugary mess? A rip-off at 12,31€. (661 views) |
| Ironstone Vineyards Producer website
The story of Ironstone Vineyards started in the hands of John Kautz, a young row crop farmer from Lodi who saw the future in growing wine grapes in Lodi. With 12 acres in 1948, John quickly built an excellent reputation
as a premium wine grape supplier, amassing over 5,000 acres of grapes in Lodi and the Sierra Foothills and eventually becoming one of the top ten wine grape growers in California. In 1988, John, his wife Gail and their
children dedicated themselves to the creation of a wine of their own. While still maintaining grape sales to top wineries around the world, they brought award-winning winemaker Steve Millier aboard to launch Kautz wines,
which would evolve into Ironstone Vineyards, a wine brand dedicated to the production of exceptional wines of unparalleled quality, outstanding value and everyday approachability. In 1989, using dynamite, pick axes and
shovels, a crew of miners carved through limestone and Calaveras Schist Rock on Gail’s family ranch in Murphys, California and fashioned the site of Ironstone’s wine aging caverns, which in the beginning, also served as the
facility’s first tasting room., Ironstone Wines and the Ironstone Winery have each grown and become famous in their own way. John, Gail and each of their four children - Stephen, Kurt, Jack, and Joan - remain actively
involved in the growth of both the winery facility and the wine brand.Zinfandel 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 Central Valley The Central California Winegrowers (Official site) | Central Valley (California Wine Institute)Lodi Lodi Woodbridge Winegrape Commission | Lodi District Grape Growers Association |
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