Let us count the ways we love Lodi’s Wine & Chocolate Weekend
Habanero meatballs in chocolate drizzle… decadent single-vineyard Macchia Zinfandels… life is good!
LODI'S 17th ANNUAL WINE & CHOCOLATE WEEKEND February 8 & 9, 2014 | 11am – 4pm Why do we love Lodi's Wine & Chocolate Weekend? Let us count just some of the ways… Chocolate molé enchiladas and Bokisch Vineyards' exotic Spanish varietals at Downtown Lodi's Cellar Door… The gushing chocolate fountain and super-fine Italian varietals at Sorelle Winery… The heritage Zinfandel and chocolate chili matches at Harney Lane Winery… The majestic old vines (oldest Zinfandel plantings in Lodi) and barrel tastings at Jessie's Grove Winery… Chocolate chicken molé savored with classic ancient vine Zinfandel at m2's spanking new winery at 2900...
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Jan 29, 2014 at 11:48 AM
PermalinkLodi Zinfandels from Kirschenmann Vineyard blow a few minds at 2014 ZAP
Four Seasons ballroom set up for ZAP/HVS FLIGHTS Experience
I'm going to grow my hair down to my feet so strange 'Til I look like a walking mountain range Ride into Omaha on a horse Out to the country club and golf course Carrying the New York Times Shoot a few holes, blow their minds… – Bob Dylan's I Shall Be Free No. 10 Kirschenmann Vineyard – a prototypical, own-rooted east-side Lodi Zinfandel planting dating back to 1915 – made a memorable debut as a vineyard-designate bottling by five different prestige winemakers in the ballroom of the luxurious Four Seasons San Francisco last week Friday (January 24, 2014)...
Continue » Jan 27, 2014 at 12:06 PMGiant leap taken by Lodi wines at 2014 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competiton
Peirano’s Lance Randolph: old school Lodi winegrower, suddenly “hip” among wine judges
The results of the 2014 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition held earlier this month are in, and Lodi American Viticultural Area grown wines have fared better than ever! This year wines with Lodi on the label took home a total of 201 medals: 36 of them gold medals; and out of those, 3 earning double-golds (meaning, unanimously proclaimed gold medal winners within their respective judging committees). Compare this to last year's SFCWC, when Lodi wines received 19 golds (including 3 double-golds); or the 2012 competition, when Lodi also took 19 golds (with 2 double-golds). How stiff was the competition?...
Continue » Jan 20, 2014 at 2:45 PMAppreciate Zinfandels like Picassos at LoCA sponsored ZAP TERROIR TASTING
You won't need flowers in your hair – just a true-blue enthusiasm for Zinfandel – to fit right in with the thousands of other wine lovers who will be flocking to San Francisco to attend the 2014 ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates & Producers) TERROIR TASTING, co-sponsored by LoCA… that is, The Wines of Lodi, California. This event takes place next week Saturday, January 25, 2014 (10 AM to 6 PM), in the Observation Post of The Presidio (211 Lincoln Blvd.). Tickets are $70/person ($60 for ZAP members); and you can find further details on the TERROIR TASTING page of ZAP's Web...
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Be the first to comment on this postThree chicken dishes, endlessly surprising Lodi wine matches
Chinatown chicken
Let's talk chicken and wine matches. ¿Por qué? Chicken is for all-time, anytime, and everywhere – on the menu of three-star restaurants, and on the menu in every home, in every pot or skillet, any night of the week. Paul Bocuse and Julia Child have made chicken a fetish, and so have Colonel Sanders and Lady Gaga (okay – so the latter's, more like a statement). Chicken loves company – especially in the way of bottled wine – and picking a good one is not one of life's difficult tasks. The great thing about chicken, of course, is that there...
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The face of “new” wine lovers at 2013 Lodi ZinFest
What are wine lovers looking for in 2014? Whatever it is, you can be sure that the Lodi is in the thick of it — as America's largest American Viticultural Area, it has to be. Let's break it down, according to some of the buzz we are hearing in the opening days of the New Year: The "new American wine" In a recent piece in The Washington Post, longtime industry observer Dave McIntyre projects the evolution of what he calls "the new American wine," strongly influenced by steadily growing consumer interest in wines grown and produced in states other than California...
Continue » Jan 9, 2014 at 4:42 PMBest Lodi Wine Country photos of 2013 (part 2)
Lodi’s future, as it has been since the 1850s, lies in the next generation — like Chiara Colarossi, here checking out the 2013 Zinfandel harvest in Bob and Alison Colarossi’s Stellina estate
Welcome to 2014! The second half of 2013 was dominated, of course, by the Lodi Wine Country harvest. Vintage 2013 was among the earliest on record: white wine and sparkling wine grapes — such as Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir — were being picked by the end of the first week of August, at least two weeks sooner than usual. More exotic white wine grapes — such as Albariño, Verdelho and Kerner (a German crossing of Riesling x Trollinger) — came in soon after. A warm summer had a lot to do with the hastened harvest; but mostly, it was.. VIEW MORE »
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