Braving sub-zero temps and traffic-snarling snow drifts, Camron King and his team with the Lodi Winegrape Commission has been showing off wines in New York and Boston over the past week.
And it looks like he hit it off with journalist, television personality, and cookbook author, David Rosengarten, who has covered great food products, restaurants, wines, gastronomic travel destinations, and related subjects for over 25 years.
This morning we discovered on his DRosengarten.com Web site that he chose our 2010 Heritage as his Wine of the Week. Here’s a great quote:
“This beauty, from an Italian-Swiss operation, blew my mind: had I tasted it blind, I surely would have guessed that it was very good central or southern Italian wine with the complexity of age. Pretty dark garnet, but not scary-dark. Really really pretty nose of ripe red fruit mixing it up with a whole range of subtle tertiary notes: smoke, miso, Japanese pickle. This flavor combo alone would endear this wine to me…but…it comes across in an elegant package, medium-bodied, supple, soft in the finish…like real wine! It is made from 47% Barbera, 22% Petite Sirah, 18% Alicante Bouschet, and 13% Carignane, a winning combo.”
Alas, the 2010 Heritage is sold out – isn’t that always the case when someone raves about your wine! – but our 2011 vintage of Heritage may still be available, which you can try for yourself.
Cheers!
2011 Heritage Field Blend Red
Lodi Appellation, Proprietary Blend
36% Barbera, 32% Carignane, 30% Petite Sirah, 2% Zinfandel
Generations of winegrape farmers used to grow a mix of interspersed grape varieties in a field of vines then crush them all together on the same day, creating a “field blend” of beautiful garnet red. The result, as with only the best wines we’ve tasted, is almost indescribable. Deep and wild fragrances of rich juicy plums and black cherries shift untamed in a tapestry of smoky bacon and cola with perhaps some leather or earth. Luscious black cherries and the concentrated essence of brambly blackberries deliver a lively tartness as you’d find near the pit of a plum. These flavors dance in an exciting enticing balance for minutes before resolving into cedar and violets. Very versatile with foods, especially great with rosemary roasted lamb, duck or virtually any beef topped with a reduction sauce. In many ways, our Heritage is itself a sauce in a glass. 180 cases produced. (07/17/2013)
Read much more on our blog "The Start of Our New Heritage."
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