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Speaker 1
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Paso Robles Zinfandel 2023 . $10 Zinfandel from a sub-ABA in Paso Robles . That's kind of strange . Another thing that's kind of strange is that the back label told you who made it . You know , typically speaking , trader Joe's especially the reserve wines don't want you to know who made it . They have shell companies after shell companies . It says bottled and cellared by . That means basically nothing , that just means the bottling line bottled it . But here this is the Beckett family from Paso Robles made the wine .
Speaker 1
0:57
The Beckett family is the people behind Peachy Canyon , which was founded in 1988 . It's one of the pioneers of zinfandel and paso robles . Uh , the sons broke off and did chronic sellers and they did great . Now they're back at um peachy canyon and um they're . They make really nice zinfandel wines . I I mean their Zinfandels are $40 , $50 , $60 , $70 Zinfandels .
Speaker 1
1:28
There was a time when Peachy Canyon was you could find a value price one , but I haven't seen one in a while . And Chronic Cellars wasn't very super expensive . They weren't that cheap either . Super expensive , but they weren't that cheap either . And the how do you ? That's the first time I ever saw the name of it before Adelaide District , which is in the northwest corner of Paso Robles . It's a little bit different . It's rocky soil and it gets like 10 times the rainfall of anything else in Paso Robles . So it's little bit different up there and it's a great place for Zinfandel . They most of Paso Robles is a desert , but not up there . I'm gonna take a sip . It's good .
Speaker 1
2:23
Now I'm going to talk about something that probably isn't related to this wine , but maybe it is . 2024 was a bad year for beer , spirits , wine . It was off eight , nine , ten percent . A lot of um . A lot of people who are making wine canceled contracts with the growers . I mean there's a lot of the estate .
Speaker 1
2:48
Wine is kind of like it's in the upper end but in the value price there's people growing the grapes and yet they're purchased grapes . There aren't a lot of new labels coming out . Everything is kind of like , uh , of like , uh , what's going on ? They're even talking about some people uh pulling up the grapes and planting something else . If they can't , you know if it's going to be going downhill . They want to know what's going on with , uh , people's drinking habits and that type of thing . So there is wines left over .
Speaker 1
3:19
So now is this a leftover wine ? I don't know it kind of like you know it has some like why is it from a sub ABA , from Paso Robles , from one of the best producers of Zinfandel and Paso Robles ? I mean I have no idea why . I mean I'm not telling you this is actually a $70 wine for $10 , anything like that . I don't know where the grapes come from . Have enough contacts and possible rubles . If this isn't an estate wine , uh , they could have purchased some grapes from leftovers from their friends and put together a wine for trader joe's , which is still pretty good because it's it's a high-end for zippendale growing region . I mean , this is the wines here are expensive not 9.99 , so there's bargains out there . And I mean I'm starting to see weird things happening , like costco always usually has the the winemaker's name on it , sometimes the , uh , the winery's name on it . Now trader joe's is starting to do that . And then I had a aldi's wine that kind of had . That too , it's like , was from a , from a major producer and it's like and they're not hiding it as well , and like what's going on out there .
Speaker 1
4:27
Well , let's talk about the Trader Joe's Reserve , adelaide District , paso Robles 2023 . It's smooth and really tasty . It's long . It's got really good flavors to it . There's blackberry , there's maybe some molasses , some french vanilla , some cranberry , tart cranberry and then some smooth plum , some sweet spice . It's just got long , smooth flavors . It's not a spicy Zinfandel , but it does . You know cuz you can get that it can be spicy . This is wrong . Smooth nectar sweet . We're not talking about sugary sweet , we're talking about roundness to the flavors or the fruit flavors really good fruit flavors . That molasses kind of gives it a little kick . Maybe there's some mocha in there , some little bit of coffee going on and smooth on the palate and it's kind of long . The flavors kind of stay with you too . The acidity is like seamless , it's like well integrated in the body of the wine . The tannins are sweet .
Speaker 1
5:44
This is a really nice effort , especially for ten bucks . You know it's been a while . I used to love Zinfandel . It used to be my favorite red and you know , the last few years it's kind of fallen off where I like it . But it's not really knocking my socks off and I'm not even wearing socks . So this one is really good tasting wine for $10 . I mean , you can spend more , but I don't know if you're going to be getting that much . I mean , there's a reason why there's $40 , $50 , $60 wines from different regions . They have different flavors and different characteristics and you can really fall in love with those characteristics , but this is from the same small region and it tastes great . So that's it for me .
Speaker 1
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Domain dave cheapwinefightercom . This is the 999 trader , joe's reserve at aladia district , paso robles . Uh , zinfandel 2023 . It's from a big name winery in top winery , from a top AVA , and it's good . So , like us , where you got your podcast , I got a couple more wines coming , a couple more interesting things . 2025 was way better than I thought it would be . So , adios , keep it cheap , stay warm and I'll be talking to you . Bye , bye .
