Angels’ Visits
An inquiry into the mystery of Zinfandel
David Darlington
Published by Henry Holt, 1991
ISBN 9780805016086
Reissued in 2001 by Da Capo Press as Zin: The history and mystery of Zinfandel (ISBN 9780306810299)
Appropriately enough, I was given a copy of Angels’ Visits earlier this year by a winemaker, Fred Peterson, whose Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel was described recently by the English wine writer Margaret Rand as ‘the poor man’s Ridge’. Peterson even makes a couple of appearances, described as...