The 2009 Bogle Essential Red is a blend of old vine Zinfandel, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Sirah sourced from contract vineyards in several California grape growing AVA’s. Bogle also makes the Phantom Red blend which is one of the best under $20 blends on the market. The Essential Red was produced with younger wine…
Read MoreThe LePlan Classic Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2010 is a blend of 60% Grenache and 40% Syrah sourced from vineyards in the Southern Rhone Valley. The winery is owned by Dirk Vermeersch an ex-GT race car driver from Belgium. His wines are true to the Rhone Valley, but there are no Domaine this or Chateau…
Read MoreThe 2011 Dearly Beloved I Thee Red is a Trader Joe’s $7.99 exclusive (last years Forever Red sold for $6.99) sourced from Merlot, Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, Syrah and Cabernet Franc farmed in the Central Coast grape growing AVA of California. The 2009 Dearly Beloved Forever Red was produced by Mendocino Wine Group, who make Parducci Cellars…
Read MoreThe 2008 St. Francis Red Splash is a blend of 27% Merlot, 19% Petite Sirah, 17% Syrah, 17% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Zinfandel and the other 14% made up of Cabernet Franc, Alicante Bouschet and mixed blacks (various red grapes, I don’t know why the accounting is so impercise). Some of the 2008 vintage labels say…
Read MoreThe 2010 Coppola Diamond Collection Merlot is 80% Merlot, 19% Petite Sirah and 1% Syrah sourced from vineyards all over California (they mention Paso Robles, Sonoma and Monterey as some of the vineyard locations), though the core of the vineyards used has been the same since 1996. This Merlot was aged in French oak barrels…
Read MoreThe Cameron Hughes Lot 313 California Field Blend is composed of 71% Zinfandel, 10% Petite Sirah, 10% Syrah and 9% Carignane, along with very small amounts of indigenous Italian grape varietals grown the Lodi AVA inside the Central Coast AVA in California. The label shows California as the origin of the grapes, which means the grapes…
Read MoreThe 2010 Cycles Gladiator Lodi Cabernet Sauvignon is 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot and 5% Petite Sirah sourced from vineyards located in the Lodi AVA inside the Central Coast AVA of California. Cycles Gladiator is one of the labels owned by Hahn Estates, Monterey, California. Cycles Gladiator was the brand name for a French bicycle…
Read MoreThe Stark Raving Red is a non vintage blend of 34% Tannat, 28% Zinfandel, 18% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Petite Sirah and 6% Other (why do they just say “other,” it’s not a field blend, they know what grapes they purchased) sourced from 80% Central Coast AVA and 20% Lodi AVA (which is inside…
Read MoreThe 2011 Bota Box RedVolution 3L is a blend of Zinfandel, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Petite Sirah sourced from several California grape growing AVA’s. The box is made from recycled paper, no chemical based glues were used, the ink is soy based and the internal bag is Mylar, no nasty plastic chemicals. The paper…
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The 2010 Babble Red Wine is a $6.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive sourced from grapes grown in Mendocino County, California. The blend is 36% Petite Sirah, 26% Syrah, 17% Merlot, 10% Carignane, 10% Grenache and 1% Malbec. Babble is produced by DnA Vineyards (owner and winemaker is Dennis Patton), who is a custom winemaker, tell him…
Read MoreThe 2007 Ravenswood Napa Valley Old Vines Zinfandel is 76% Zinfandel and 24% Petite Sirah sourced from several contract vineyards in Napa Valley, California. This is the middle of Ravenswood’s line of Zinfandel, with the Vintners’ Blend as the entry level and the Single Vineyard wines on top. I found this wine selling for $9.99…
Read MoreThe 2008 Little Stone Vineyards Petite Sirah is sourced from grapes grown in California’s North Coast. The North Coast is composed of 6 counties (Napa, Lake and 4 others) and 44 grape growing AVA’s (including Napa Valley, Mendocino, Sonoma). Little Stone Vineyards is a “virtual winery,” Larry Palmerson a wine professional from the Chicago area,…
Read MoreFreakshow – I would really love to taste her. Every time we meet. Michael David Winery – the Lodi guys who gave you Incognito, 6th Sense Syrah and Petite Petit have done it again with this beast Cab that you don’t take home to mother. This Cab with just a splash of Petite Sirah hails…
Read MoreWhen the supplier came to us with a sample bottle of this wine it was one of the best wines I had tasted all year. I’m not sure about is where the name of this wine came from, but there is nothing dead about it. I might have called it “The Balls!!,” but then they…
Read MoreThe The County Fair The One Man Band Sonoma County Zinfandel 2010 is a $8.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. Made from 80% Zinfandel and 15% Petite Sirah and 5% “other” (if you can find out what the 5% is, you can figure out who made the wine). The wine is produced by HDD LLC and wine…
Read MoreThe 2008 Vicious Red is a blend of 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Zinfandel, 19% Petite Sirah and 5% Malbec sourced from more than one California grape growing AVA. Made by Sobon Family Estates, a top notch, mainly Zinfandel producer out of Amador County in the Sierra Foothills around two hours away from the San Francisco…
Read MoreThe 2010 Colby Red is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Shiraz/Syrah, Merlot and Petite Sirah sourced from vineyards located in more than one California grape growing AVA (available at Walgreens Drug for around $10). Normally, this is where I tell the details about how the wine was made, but there is more to the…
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The 2010 Bogle Petite Sirah is sourced from vineyards in the Clarksburg and Lodi AVA’s in Northern California. Bogle has been making wine from Petite Sirah grapes for 33 years and Bogle is the largest winery in the Clarksburg AVA. There are only a handful of wineries in Clarksburg, with the majority the grapes shipped to…
Read MoreThe Rosenblum Vintner’s Cuvee Zinfandel is a non-vintage blend of 88% Zinfandel and 12% Petite Sirah sourced from vineyards in multiple California Zinfandel growing areas (though the bulk of the grapes came from Lodi). Rosenblum has been producing Zinfandel wines for 33 years, hence the roman numerals. This bottle is composed of Zinfandel grapes from more than…
Read MoreThe 2010 Sugar Pie Red Wine is a Trader Joe’s $5.99 exclusive, sourced from grapes grown in the North Coast of California, which encompasses 48 wine growing AVA’s, including Napa Valley, Sonoma and Mendocino. The label says this wine was produced by Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch Cellars. Trader Joe’s does not give out much information on…
Read MoreThe Blackburn & James Paso Robles Red Blend, a Trader Joe’s $6.99 exclusive, is a blend of 45% Zinfandel, 25% Petite Sirah, 17% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Syrah, 2% Cabernet Franc and 2% Sangiovese sourced from vineyards in Paso Robles, California. The blend is mostly aged in used oak barrels, with 5% of the wine aged…
Read MoreThe Foxglove Zinfandel is 94% Zinfandel and 6% Petit Syrah sourced from the Dos Ninos and the Hog Canyon vineyards in the Paso Robles AVA of California. Foxglove is the entry level label for Bob and Jim Varner, who are very well known for their Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The wine was fermented in stainless…
Read MoreThe 2009 Concannon Conservancy Crimson & Clover Red Blend is 50% Petite Sirah, 25% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Syrah and 10% Zinfandel sourced from vineyards in the Livermore Valley AVA near San Francisco in Northern California. Concannon Vineyards have quite a history, the founder, James Concannon planted the vineyard from Bordeaux grapevine cuttings in 1883, they…
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