Zeppelin Winery Mixed Reds

Tasting notes & discussion 41

24 HOUR SALE
Typically $62 - $76/bottle from Zeppelin Winery
Vintage 2022 reds from Paso Robles and Lodi
One Exceptio Probat Regulam and Darwinian III per two Manly Syrah (definitely scientific units)
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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 Standar Or The Exceptio?

TASTING… NOTES?
Manly Syrah - “Anyway, after on garagiste-style racking, in the garage of our old abode (abode, not adobe- did I ever mention that I made wine in New Mexico from '94 through '01? And never stopped producing in California, and consulted/slaved in Arizona on the way through? I must have been younger then) in Baja Cayucos of absurdly temperate clime, being as coastal as you can get without having some Gromit’s surfboard miss you by ten feet as you drive down the PCH, the wine almost immediately bolted up from its slumber, showing concentrated dry (dried but not sweet) late ripe red cherry, that nearly overwhelms the wood of a second-year Francois Freres barrel, and spices I will not attempt to describe. And it’s still dignified, and I believe will age well. As did William Lewis Manly, as seen on the label.” (AbV 16%, TA 6.4 g/L)

Exceptio Probat Regulam - “I think this is my farthest-flung blend, and one of my very best, I hope; a blend of art and science, perhaps like the spectrum of talents possessed by the three men pictured. One of them is likely more recognizable than the others, and I was fortunate enough to meet him. Of the others, well, one flunked first grade and the other was smarter than Einstein and the unpictured Bierce was and is the greatest wit in the English language. Can I go outside and play now?“ (AbV 16.5%, TA 6.8 g/L)

Darwinian III - “The grower is a very old friend (and fellow winemaker, for the last two of my now four decades of ‘experience’) and a client as well, whose efforts I am sometimes able to impair and participate in. He passed through Panamint a few weeks ago, during one of my absences, and opined that I was crazy— ‘You can’t grow grapes in Death Valley! It’s 130 there!’ Blah blah blah etc. I guess he didn’t notice that we have almost half a mile more altitude than Badwater, but whatever. In cool years—and yes, Lodi has them—he grows and makes some of the best Petite Sirah in California. I fiddled with some to make this Darwinian III, the most structured of my trio of PSs. It’s not aggressively tannic, just on the reserved side. I generally don’t use decanters, but if I only had one bottle I might be tempted.“ (AbV 15.9%, TA 6.6 g/L)

VARIETALS: Manly Syrah is shockingly Syrah. Darwinian III is a Petite Sirah. EPR is 52% Syrah, 21% Tannat, 16% Alicante, 11% Petite Sirah.

BARRELS: There probably were.

PAIRS WITH: Psychosis.

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