Joel Peterson, the founding and ongoing winemaker at Ravenswood Winery in Sonoma, has been around the vineyard block so many times – 33 vintages – and produced Zinfandel from nearly every California region that grows it, that I’m confident in his recollection of the 2006 Zinfandel vintage in Northern California:
‘As the result of a wet winter and a dark and stormy spring, the...
2006 Zinfandels to savour
Our West Coast editor Linda Murphy (currently judging this year's Wines of Chile Awards in Santiago) draws our attention to a fine vintage for California’s signature grape, with tasting notes for no fewer than 60 examples.
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