Zeppelin Winery Mixed Reds

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Typically $62 - $68/bottle from Zeppelin Winery
Vintage 2022 from Paso Robles
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About Zeppelin Winery: “In ancient times, long ago, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, the consulting winemaker, assistant cellar sock monkey, and rock band mis-manager Stillman Brown of Red Zeppelin infamy, and his footloose and still insufficiently silent mouthpiece and de factoid attorney GD Lewis of Jory Winery, became Zeppelin Winery, and even since then have wines that at least one of them believes are at least more than good enough to have pretty much anything on the label, excepting hallucinogenic drugs.“

La Petite Mort Du Roi

TASTING NOTES:
La Mort Du Roi - “Softer and richer than the Basement, cherry and plum, chocolate and vanilla and—wait, has someone—that silly sommelier? a sneaking son? swiped my notes and substituted his own? Well, accurate enough, I suppose. This part of the Hill of Graceland has even lower yields (under a bottle per vine) than the north block, and in warmer vintages makes the ‘Dread Zeppelin’ which has flirted with 35 proof. Stylistically this wine is closer to an uber-Rhone, aged in Carpathian oak. No joke.” (AbV 16.2%, TA 7.1 g/L)

Basement - “The 2022 harvest was not typical of Paso Robles. It was perhaps more typical of France: in wet years. I beat the storms, by picking the Syrah relatively earlier than I usually do—note that the alcohol is a ’mere’ 16% With rich Moab cherry fruit, whiffs of clove and mint and, ahem, not inconsiderable tannin from both grape and barrel, instead of the softer black plummy character of the 17% alcohol Syrah I’ve made from this part of the vineyard, I couldn’t call it Colossus. But it’s terrific, will improve for a decade, and endure for more.” (AbV 16.0%, TA 6.7 g/L)

Darwinian - “The best Petite Sirah I’ve ever had a hand (no feet) in making. I’ll say no more—though you won’t when you try it—though I should perhaps say that I’ve made, ahem, “no more” than seven or eight. Given its confusing name and attributed abrasiveness, that this variety has survived is clearly due to its fitness for—oh, wait! Wrong Darwin!” (AbV 15.8%, TA 7.6 g/L)

THAT REMINDS ME OF: “La petite mort,” or the little death, is a French expression referring to a sensation as though part of you has died temporarily. This could be fainting/blacking out at something shocking, not breathing for a period while asleep, or feeling like your spirit has left your body for moment.

People use it a lot to refer to a feeling that occurs post-orgasm, like you’ve expended some of your “life force” in the process. Which kinda sucks, because “la petite mort” is such a cool expression, but it’s reduced to a sorta sex joke.

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