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• Brain Capers Likes this wine:

  April 10, 2024 - Lovely rose. Think if somebody in Provence grew Zinfandel, and made a wonderful dry rose. Went very well with a salad Nicoise. Yum

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• jwjon1 Likes this wine: 94 points

  March 26, 2024 - What a fun wine!
  
  Went into this completely blind. Don’t know the producer, and skeptical of wine made in an urban jungle. Don’t know white zin: was expecting a white wine, if that tells you anything about my familiarity with the style.
  
  Corked riddled with diamonds, so off the bat I’m excited about the cellar management, and minimal touch of the winemaker. Poured a beautiful clear pink (had a neck filter to hold back the tartrates). Smelled of flint? petrol? snap pops? In a rose? Wtf? Yes please! Aroma alone leads me to aged riesling, or young sun soaked new world riesling from leaf pruned vines. Either way it is full of converted carotenoids, and unexpected fun. Yet again, it’s pink? Mind blown!
  
  Crisp, juicy, high acidity. Unripe peach. Medium body… is it residual sugar? Not sticky or cloying, but does seem to have some rs that both round out the body, and counterbalances the acid. Makes it infinitely drinkable. Again, like a well made riesling. But its pink! Finish is medium+. The acid draws out the finish and the fruit quickly fades while the lingering petrol/TDN coats the tongue and outlives the fruit.
  
  Not sure this is a wine for the masses. Actually, I am sure this is NOT a wine for the masses. But it sure as hell is better made than wine for the masses, and is extremely fun, satisfying, and dangerously crushable. No clue how age worthy this is. The tertiary notes are already present in spades while the acid is near perfectly balanced as of Mar 2024 (three years in?)… so no need to wait! Of course, I’ll hide a few for the sake of science, especially after my wtf moment led me to look up white zin. This is not the white zin I read about. This is seriously fun wine!
  
  Addendum: seeing some discussion on brett. I’m not seeing it at this point. I LOVE brett, and am pretty tuned to it. Decades of drinking lambic will do that to you. Will follow this over time, and would love love love to see brett develop: I’m of the do not fear brett camp. Just not seeing brett right now. TDN for sure. But not brett.

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• djjagdish Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 15, 2024 - Know anyone who poo pops rose or white Zinfandel? Get this in their life and watch them change their tune right quick. Incredible.

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• Maphill01 Likes this wine:

  December 26, 2023 - Dry rose, light salmon color. Slightly reductive flint. Acid driven, strawberry as well as some savory notes. Adam makes some of the most interesting and unique wines in CA today- I mean, high quality white zin?! Great value to boot.

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• NoahCap wrote:

  July 5, 2023 - Opened on July 4th- what's more American than white Zinfandel?! Beautiful coppery salmon color. Nose of fresh sweet berry fruits- strawberries, lingonberries, a touch of cranberries. The nose becomes a bit more funky/cheesy as it takes on air. On the palate- light in body, medium acidity, no tannins to speak of. Flavors again lead with lovely fresh strawberries and cream, a touch of blood orange, and a funkiness that becomes more pronounced as the wine warms up a bit. I realize the funkiness is from Brett I don't like it when wine has Brett, but it minimal here and this is thoroughly enjoyable. I'd happy buy/drink more. Well done! U-S-A! U-S-A!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2021
• Type Rosé
• Producer Sabelli-Frisch
• Varietal Zinfandel
• Designation Eserra
• Vineyard Lauchland Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Central Valley
• Appellation Lodi Jahant
• UPC Code 860007127915

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• In Cellars 107 (68%)
• Consumed 51 (32%)

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