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Mom always loved Sorelle’s Primitivo best

January 26th, 2012
Mom always loved Sorelle’s Primitivo best

Another one of the Lodi American Viticultural Area’s gold medal winners at the prestigious 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition was the 2009 Sorelle, Manna Ranch Reserve Lodi Primitivo ($27):  a round, fleshy, velvety, medium bodied red, inundated with vibrant, smoke tinged raspberry and black cherry aromas, unimpeded by moderate, pliant tannin.

Perhaps even better yet?  The more modestly priced, but even finer and friendlier 2010 Sorelle Sorriso Lodi Primitivo ($22):  like any good Zinfandel – which it…

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