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The lowdown on what’s happening during Lodi Wine & Chocolate Weekend!
Lodi wine and chocolate lovers at Macchia winery Don’t look now, but Lodi’s Wine & Chocolate Weekend is just around the corner: coming up February 7 & 8, 2015 (Saturday/Sunday). Time’s...
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Lodi wines shine where they should at 2015 San Francisco Chronicle Wine...
The Michael David winemaking crew — Adam Mettler, Derek Devries, Barry Gnekow and Kevin Phillips — behind a phenomenal performance at the 2015 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Wine judgings...
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Lodi wines, grapes, and ZAP feelin’ the love
Lodi wine country during the foggy days of January This week Zinfandel Advocates & Producers (a.k.a. ZAP) hosts its twenty-fourth annual “Experience” in San Francisco (on January 28), attended by...
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Wines, chocolates, chili: matches made in heaven (and for Wine & Chocolate...
Chocolate in the raw: one of the world’s most natural, sensuous wine matches! CHOCOLATES AND WINES, FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS How fortuitous that two of the most wonderful things in the world – wines...
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Tizona by Bokisch’s Zinfandel is a new Lodi classic
Markus Bokisch and his winemaker Elyse Egan Perry in Lodi’s Kirschenmann Vineyard The more consumers and wine critics have come to appreciate kinder, gentler, more feminine styles of California...
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Lodi’s wet, wild, wonderful 2015 Wine & Chocolate Weekend
Zinfandel and kisses in the rain at Lodi’s m2 winery… Thousands of wine lovers can’t be wrong! It was a wet, wet pre-Valentine’s weekend, to be sure, which did nothing to dampen the hearts and spirits...
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The fruits of Borra’s Manuel Maldonado’s labors
Borra Vineyard Manager Manuel Maldonado doing 2015 pruning (photo courtesy of Borra Vineyards) Wine, it is often said, is made in the vineyard. Which sometimes brings up the jocular comment: then why...
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Mikami proves that world class Zinfandel can come off young trellised vines
Mike Manna, Jason Mikami and Kian Tavakoli with split-canopy, close-spaced trellised Mikami Vineyards Zinfandel Everybody knows that the best Zinfandels come from ancient, gnarly, head trained vines....
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Celebrated winemaker David Ramey releases his first Lodi grown Kerner
Celebrated winemaker David Ramey; with daughter Claire Ramey, who assists in winery David Ramey, owner of the acclaimed, Sonoma-based David Ramey Wine Cellars – known for peerless Chardonnays and...
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Borra is releasing an intriguing Lodi Vermentino
Borra Vineyards winemaker Markus Niggli in Gill Creek Ranch Vermentino planting Among the many alternative white wine grapes cultivated in Lodi in recent years, Vermentino might hold the most...
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The origins of the Lodi Viticultural Area
The ATF received a petition for a Lodi AVA from a group called the Lodi District Vintners Association in August 1982, which went through an approval process lasting nearly four years before finally...
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The expansion and controversial division of the Lodi Viticultural Area
Trellised vines along Lodi’s Mokelumne River Continuation of a Part 1: The origins of the Lodi Viticultural Area In 1991, over 700 Lodi AVA growers came together to form the mandated Lodi-Woodbridge...
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Is Zinfandel breaking out, or just a case of measles?
2015 ZAP Media & Trade Tasting This past January 28-31, Zinfandel Advocates & Producers (a.k.a. ZAP) held its 24th full-scale “Experience” in San Francisco’s Presidio, with the theme:...
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Elegant styles of Lodi Zinfandel
2014 Zinfandel in McCay’s Lot 13 Vineyard In our previous post (Is Zinfandel breaking out?) we cited a number of wine industry professionals who truly believe that Zinfandel can be made in more...
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The Mokelumne River Viticultural Area (part 1)
Bokisch Ranches’ Las Cerezas Vineyard (planted to Spanish varieties) in Lodi’s Mokelumne River AVA Boundaries, heart and soul The Mokelumne River AVA (American Viticultural Area) is one of the seven...
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The Mokelumne River Viticultural Area (part 2) – winemakers talk dirty
Trench dug in the Mokelumne River AVA’s historic Bechthold Vineyard; showing the depth of fine sandy loam soil Continued from The Mokelumne River Viticultural Area (part 1) From sandy loams to loamy...
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The Mokelumne River Viticultural Area (part 3) – Grapes, ungrafted vines,...
February pruning of 100-year old, own-rooted Kirschenmann Vineyard Zinfandel Continued from: The Mokelumne River Viticultural Area (part 1 and part 2) Transition from Table Grape to Premium...
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White Zinfandel is back, and better (when seriously dry) than ever!
The crying of Lot 13 Don’t look now, but White Zinfandel may be back, and better than ever! That is to say, White Zinfandel vinified more like a connoisseur’s wine: bone-dry – not a hint of...
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2015 Lodi ZinFest – more fun than a barrel of floating winemakers!
Where does the time go? Don’t look now, but the 2015 Lodi ZinFest Wine Festival is just 30 days away — happening this coming Saturday, May 16 (12-5 PM)! Simply put, Lodi wine doesn’t get any funner...
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Klinker Brick aligns with two bold women-growers
Lodi grower Jean Rauser among her 106-year old Carignan plants Special red wines grown by Lodi’s Jean Rauser and Antoinette Celle Klinker Brick Winery owner Steve Felten has recently aligned his...
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