Zeppelin Winery Mixed Reds

Tasting notes & discussion 56

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Typically $62.00/bottle from Zeppelin Winery
Vintage 2022 from Paso Robles and Tuolumne County
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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 ever 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.”

The Darwins

TASTING NOTES:
Darwinian Two - “From the same crazed, suspicious, and all around weird Sierra Foothills grower who scribbles implausible vineyard names in lurid violet visible ink on the scrap of paper he hands me, calling it a ‘Bob of Lading.’ A cute name of letting me know to keep it quiet, almost certainly because he’s promised the entire crop to someone else. I didn’t get much, and wasn’t able to get the fermentation warm, but for a moderate-to-light tannin PS, it’s amazing. It’s got the perfume of a fruity bomb, but with lush fruit instead of light sweet jugginess, and dare I say it, the finest in now damned expensive American oak. The vineyard is barely closer to the place where the label photo was taken, and still hundreds of miles away, but I’m taking liberties even naming the county. As he wants payment in this wine, I will make a special label for him—perhaps a stoned Yosemite Sam?“ (AbV 16.2%)

Panamint Playa - “This is what might have been the Colossus, had it another 1% alcohol - but it is the biggest and most structured of my final Paso Syrahs, with deep, plummy baked cherry fruit and onion like layers of spice and oak. (Ahem! Lots of layers like an onion, not onion flavors; I’m sure you weren’t confused. I might say that it was aged in a new Tiramisu barrel, were there such a thing.) The fruit was almost 100% Hill of Graceland, and the last ferment I pressed there. A fitting coda for my Paso phase, as my client and grower there had decided to flip out - well, sell out - even before the winery just over the hill sold to gullible antipodeans for nearly a billion dollars.“ (AbV 16.1%)

VARIETALS: Darwinian Two is 81% Petite Sirah, 19% Syrah. Panamint Playa is all Syrah.

BARRELS: American oak.

PAIRS WITH: N/A

THAT REMINDS ME OF: The Darwin Awards. A tongue-in-cheek award given to those who have “naturally selected” themselves out of society. Originally just online discussions, Wendy Northcutt began compiling, verifying, and releasing a collection of books that would tell the stories of the various “winners.” To receive the award, the nominee is usually dead, shows astoundingly bad judgement, is the cause of their own demise, was capable of sound judgement, and had their demise reliably documented.

Zeppelin Winery Mixed Reds

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