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What an Old Vine Zinfandel Should Be

What an Old Vine Zinfandel Should Be

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Fredric Koeppel
Dec 03, 2009
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Overlooking for the moment the issue, which seems important to me, that there are no rules about using the term "old vines" on wine labels in America, I'll propose as a model of what an old vines

zinfandel should be the Sausal Century Vines Zinfandel 2007, Alexander Valley. The dry-farmed vineyard from which Sausal draws the grapes for this wine was plan…

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