Wine of the Day, No. 708

For slabs of barbecue ribs last night, I opened the Rodney Strong Vineyards Old Vines Zinfandel 2018, Sonoma County. How old are the "old vines"? They were planted in 1904, and the 15 acres are still carefully cultivated by the winery to produce their scant harvest of zinfandel grapes. This is not a high-alcohol, blockbuster zinfandel such as we might s…