2007 Chronic Cellars Purple Paradise

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Chronic Cellars is an ode to Northern California’s other cash crop. Sourced from vineyards throughout Paso Robles, California. Purple Paradise is 95% Zinfandel and 5% Petite Sirah, you can legally … [Read more...]

2007 Laurel Glen Reds – $10

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One of the first wines I ever hand sold and fell in love with was Laurel Glen Reds 1993 Vintage.  It was there inaugural vintage and it was spicy and jammy, concentrated and full bodied, yet … [Read more...]

2007 Four Vines Maverick Zinfandel Amador County – $16

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  Four Vines Winery is Christian Tietje's Zinfandel House - it's what they do. Sourced from 100 year old vines in the Shenedoah Valley in the Sierra Foothills of Amador County with a little … [Read more...]

2007 Hey Mambo Red Blend – $10

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No offense to Lee Meriwether or Eartha Kitt, but my "purrfect" Catwoman was Julie Newmar. Meowing in that leather outfit, she simply purred sultriness. Just like this "Zorked"* wine! A blend of … [Read more...]

2006 Four Vines Old Vines Zinfandel – $12

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This is another "follow the wine maker" wine. Christian Tietje (based out of Paso Robles) is something of an outlaw winemaker - he makes wine the way he wants to and does not pay a great deal of … [Read more...]