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Our Amador Zinfandels are so-o-o-o representative
of the Amador style: big, ripe, generous, playful, jammy, alcoholic,
mouthfilling.
Currently available from the winery are the 2001 and 2002 vintages. Both
are perfect for year-round consumption — with barbecued
meats during the summer and body-warming stews or tomato-laden
pasta dishes during the winter. (In spring and fall you're on your
own!)
2001 Zinfandel tasting notes: A barrage on the
nose as well as the palate. The boss likes ultra-ripe Zinfandel,
and there couldn't be a better example than the 2001 Tulocay Amador.
For the uninitiated, zinfandel grapes tend to raisin and can
achieve high sugar contents while maintaining good natural acidity.
This is why today's Zins almost always (it seems) push the 14%
alcohol threshold.
In his Amador Zins, the boss has taken threshold pushing one step
further — or to be precise, 1.7 steps further — as his 2001 is
a whopping 15.7% alcohol.
This wine, therefore, is not for the faint at heart. The nose
reflects the unique combination of late harvest zinfandel with
small barrel aging. On the palate there is a bit a roughness due
to the tannins and high alcohol, but the zinfandel fruit shines
through, like the sun breaking through the spring tule fogs in
the valley.
Enjoy!
— Skippy,
Chief Cellar Rat |
“Red wine is to Tulocay Zinfandel as motorcycles
are to Harley-Davidsons.” — Anonymous
“It has become quite a
common proverb that in wine there is truth.”
— Pliny
the Elder
“Ask not what your wine can
do for the meal, ask what your meal can do for the wine.” — Anonymous
“Baseball is 750 mental, the
other half is physical.”
— Yogi Berra
“Under
a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.” — from “Don
Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes
“Drink a glass of wine after
your soup and you steal a ruble from your doctor.”
— Russian Proverb |
