100 Wines: A Chronicle, #37

It's July 23, 1985. The wine is the Mirassou "Third Harvest" Zinfandel 1968, Monterey County, one from a case of wines that John Grisanti gave me from the warehouse next to his restaurant. (Big John died in 1995; his family sold the property to Walgreens.)

Mirassou was once a distinguished, if not a great, name in the history of California wine. The fam…