This is Tulocay Winery in Napa Valley California. While many Napa wineries
make thousands of cases of wine. our Winery makes hand crafted, zinfandel,
cabernet , chardonnay, merlot and pinot noir from some of the finest
vineyards in Napa Valley, CA. It is a Napa winery much smaller and intimate.
Winery tour of our Napa valley property can be arranged.

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Zinfandel from Amador County . . .
 

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

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— Yogi Berra

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Tulocay Winery

1426 Coombsville Road • Napa, CA 94558

Phone: (707) 255-4064
Email: bill@tulocay.com or skippy@tulocay.com

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