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There will be some fascinating 30 minute seminars offered at the 2012 Lodi ZinFest, taking place underneath the Wine School tent.  You can Learn all about Lodi terroir by connecting up the dirt with wines grown in it, Experience a do-it-yourself Old Vine Zinfandel blending seminar, Meet a Master Sommelier and “Grape Goddess,” and discover her secrets of enjoying wine with chocolates, Go on a guided tour of Lodi’s latest, greatest, most exciting and adventurous wines with the reviewer for one the most widely read wine magazines in the world, Or savor the perfect Lodi grown wines for five award.. VIEW MORE »

This Sunday, April 29, 2012, Wine & Roses – Lodi’s premier hotel, restaurant and spa destination – will host its first annual Spring of The Vine.  Or as Wine & Roses’ French born Chef Didier Gerbi puts it, Le Printemps des Vins. “This is a day about discovery as you taste wines and share passion and surprise with the winemakers themselves,” Didier explains.  Over two dozen of Lodi’s finest winemakers will be on hand in the hotel’s lush gardens to pour tastes of their most recent vintage:  2011 white wines and rosés, fresh and iced cold off their respective bottling lines… VIEW MORE »

Why have more and more wine lovers been flocking to Lodi’s ZinFest Wine Festival, a yearly celebration taking place this year on Saturday, May 19, 2012 (12-5 PM)?  More than 6,000 attended last year’s festival, yet amazingly… It is never so much of a “crowd” than a gathering of people of like mind and palates, thanks to the ZinFest setting in Lodi Lake Park:  strolls over lush green grass crowned by giant cypress trees, with swans and ducks floating along the reedy Mokelumne River to one side and the postcard-pretty Lodi Lake to the other, the gentle Delta breezes soothing mind, body and soul. You.. VIEW MORE »

I fought against the bottle But I had to do it drunk… – Leonard Cohen (That Don’t Make It Junk) The 2009 Odisea California Temporary Insanity ($30) is a perfect example of how some of California’s most original, and quixotic, wine producers get hooked on Lodi; and why winemakers consider this American Viticultural Area increasingly where it’s at when it comes to winegrowing derring-do. First, provenance:  the ’09 Temporary Insanity consisting of 84% Tempranillo from Gregg Lewis’ rolling hillside vineyard in the Clements Hills AVA (locals can see fantasy style murals of the vineyard in Lewis’ Dancing Fox Winery & Bakery.. VIEW MORE »

LangeTwins Family Winery & Vineyards has been among the Lodi AVA’s leaders in Lodi Rules certified sustainable winegrowing.  During the past eight years they  have also devoted some 10 acres north of their winery on E. Jahant Rd., plus another 10 acres on their Sandpoint property along the Mokelumne River, to habitat restoration projects in association with SLEWS – Center for Land-Based Learning‘s Student and Landowner Education and Watershed Stewardship program –which engages local high school students in the winery’s conservation efforts. SLEWS also exposes the students to natural resources professionals furnished by the National Audubon Society who act as guides and.. VIEW MORE »