Okay, so I messed up and didn’t grab the list, so I’m doing this from memory. And as the guy pouring the wines mentioned, “The mind is the first thing to go…” And I don’t remember what the other things were.
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\nOkay as I remembered them: <\/p>\n
2002 Rancho Zabaco California Dancing Bull Sauvignon Blanc<\/strong> $8 2001 Rancho Zabaco California Dancing Bull Zinfandel<\/strong> $8 Okay, bear with me here, as I’m not positive on these, either the vintage or the designation.<\/p>\n 2001 Rancho Zabaco Heritage Zinfandel<\/strong> $13 (I’m sure of the price, but not the designation.) 2000 Rancho Zabaco Reserve Zinfandel<\/strong> $15 (Again, I’m sure of the price, but not the designation.) I didn’t think that this one was a nice as the one before. Not horrible, but nothing to love. It has a distinctive spice, similar to cloves which is slightly interesting, but not enough to kick it into my “buy it” category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay, so I messed up and didn’t grab the list, so I’m doing this from memory. And as the guy pouring the wines mentioned, “The mind is the first thing to go…” And I don’t remember what the other things were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farglesnargle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2002 Rancho Zabaco Russian River Valley Sauvignon Blanc<\/strong> $12
\nI’ll comment on these together. I think that I’m glad that I didn’t have to pay to taste these, as I would have felt guilty pouring them out. The first was lighter and crisper than the second but very harsh. The second was trying its best to be a Chardonnay with a lot of American Oak in the flavor. There was some caramel or butter and vanilla, but alas, I couldn’t handle it. Okay so as you might know, I’m pretty much convinced that when it comes to Sauvignon Blanc, that you can get a much better deal than one from the Marlborough region of New Zealand. Ten bucks and they are perfect every time. <\/p>\n
\nThis was okay, not jammy, not really peppery, if you are just getting started in wine drinking and want to try an inexpensive Red Zinfandel, this one would be okay.<\/p>\n
\nIf we are talking the $12+ Zin, it’s the one that I liked. In fact it’s one that I buy every now and then for pizza. It’s not spectacular, but very drinkable. No jam, but a touch of pepper, and it will change in your glass several times over if you let it.<\/p>\n