#Deux Punx Zinfandel

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Back to Basics

Back to basics, and when I say *basics*, I know this will be out of the wheelhouse of almost ALL self-acclaimed Zin-freaks, and even for hardcore old-timers raised on pithy, bright Cal-Ital versions from Sonoma and St. Helena, Mendo and the Central Valley, this will probably raise eyebrows for its brightness, raw intensity and low alc. Daringly bottled in flint, the florescent blue-purple rim…

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Dragon Breath

Have you ever had ‘green wine’? If you’ve ever been on a crush-pad during press–even as an innocent bystander–you’ve probably had a filthy, stained glass of lee-swirled red liquid thrust at you by a beaming winemaker or intern. Some people really dig it–I’ve seen winemakers chug the stuff–and there are definitely aspects of the finished wine predictable from sampling it at this term of its life.…

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rawr

Sweet ratchety fruit, bruised and blunt with weedy angst. Curvy cherry lays down pompous beats of hot-rod day-glo and tire rubber in a brilliant light ruby headed purple haze and fire-engine sunsets. Clean and chalky in the nose, portions of a bitter green tattoo visible where touchable lines head down into imagination. “Ah yes,” my Zinfandel friend says, “let me introduce you to some of my…