Zeppelin Winery Mixed Reds

Tasting notes & discussion 29

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Vintage 2023 from 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 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. Over the last decade, most of the wines have been from grapes grown by one of our crazier clients, in two concocted sub-appellations of west Paso Robles that split the hidden Hill of Graceland vineyard. He drives the tractor and poormouths himself, I do everything else… Sales are almost exclusively to our email list, though we make irregular appearances on Casemates.com.”

Tres Bon Merde!

TASTING NOTES:
Darwinian Five - “Full, ‘complete’ flavor. . . . Imagine a purple and black and red grape pie, with an oak crust. (Mind your teeth.) I ‘explained’ the name and label upon releasing earlier vintages, so I’ll skip that. I will say, however, that this is one of the two best Petite Sirahs I have made, and that doesn’t mean #2.

I mean, that doesn’t mean this is #2. It’s tres bon merde!” (AbV 15.7%, TA 6.2 g/L)

Jetable - “Aromas and flavors of blackberry, dried, black plum (Prun-no! not even. But the joke was inevitable if jetable) and Moab cherry (sans pit) with a whiff of clove to be served with clov-en hoofed creature meat. Medium to. . . lighter tannins? Relatively like a fourth cousin. (I could have tried to extract more structure from the petite grapes, but I would’ve needed more grapes–a quarter of a ton doesn’t make that much volume and thus lower heat of fermentation. And I was in Alta Amador anyway.)” (AbV 15.9%)

VARIETALS: Seems to be Petite Sirah? Jetable is a blend of 58% Petite Syrah, 38% Syrah and 4% Tannat.

BARRELS: Likely!

PAIRS WITH: Ask Stillman.

THAT REMINDS ME OF: Nothing. Zeppelin is an enigma unlike anything of this world. Instead, I’m just gonna put their explanation for the name “Jetable…”

“The name of the wine, Jetable, while susceptible to Franco-American meatball mispronunciation, (Accent on the first syllable, G like the second g in ‘garbage’ – tah-bul) is also susceptible to misinterpretation in this case. Normally it means ‘disposable’. I just mean you can ‘toss it back’ down the hatch so to speak or you can cellar it in the hold. I’ve been given to understand that my wines don’t fall apart. My marine construction efforts however, are meant to. I’m on the fourth!

The label photo was taken at Lake Thomas A Edison this summer. That’s the stunning recessed peak (12,813’ back there) and my Disposable Sailboat 4, a, er hatchless trimaran. It’s tacky, but it tacks.”

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