WINE OF THE WEEK
EDMEADES ZINFANDEL MENDOCINO 2012
CALIFORNIA.
By: Ed "The Wine Guy"
California is most renowned for its Cabernet Sauvignons, its buttery and creamy (owing to oak) Chardonnays, and for its Zinfandels. The Zinfandel grape, by the way, has been traced, by DNA analysis, to the Primitivo grape which is so widely grown in the heel of Italy, and further studies have traced it to the Croatian grape called Crljenak, just across the Adriatic Sea to the east of Italy. In general, the 2012 vintage throughout California, both for red wines as well as while, has been universally praised. Only the least-skillful vintners didn't make a satisfying wine. This Edmeades Zinfandel has aromas and flavors of blueberries, plum, leather, vanilla, and smoke, with a smooth and silky texture, which is verging on - I know this is unheard of in a Zinfandel - a creaminess. Taste and see.