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[Gabe's View] Ravenswood - 2006 Lodi Old Vine Zinfandel: With 84,000 cases and a $12 price-point you want an offering that tastes like Zinfandel with Lodi characteristics. This wine achieves that and is a solid entry in the category of wines affordable enough for most to drink everyday.

[The Wine Curmudgeon] The Wine Curmudgeon: Wine of the week: Ravenswood Sonoma County ...: Joel Peterson, who runs the winery today for Constellation Brands, started Ravenswood as a zinfandel house more than 30 years ago. And he still remembers how to do it in the classic style - moderate alcohol with jammy, berry fruit.

[another wine blog] Date Night with Ravenswood Zinfandel | another wine blog: In May, we missed a wine tasting when Joel Peterson came to Houston, because it was on the day of my surgery. But the good folks at Ravenswood, where Peterson is the King of Zinfandel, were nice enough to send samples of some of the wines we missed.

[PegasusNews.com stories] Ravenswood Winery founder visits Dallas with whole portfolio of ...: Founder Joel Peterson with four Ravenswood zinfandels (from left): 2007 Vintners Blend, 2006 Lodi Old Vine, 2006 Napa Valley Old Vine, 2006 Sonoma County Old Vine. These were the more affordable wines, which we tasted oh-so briefly.

[Dallas Food and Wine Blog, Restaurant News, Foodie News, Dallas Chefs, Wine and Spirits SideDish Blog D Magazine] Dallas Food and Wine Blog, Restaurant News, Foodie News, Dallas ...: The Ravenswood Single Vineyard series contain small production, complex Zinfandels with depth, complexity, and a bit of a racy, never wimpy, style.  Big River Vineyard Zinfandel is made from vines plated over 100 years ago in California’s Alexander Valley.  Spice, raspberry and plum exude from this well rounded, jammy wine, characteristic of old vine Zinfandel.  Teldeschi Zinfandel, made from Dry Creek Valley vines, is aged 20 months in 100% French Oak adding vanilla undertones to this wine filled with black cherry and sweet spice like cinnamon, cardamom and cloves. 

[Mike Luckovich from Creators Syndicate] Passionate Old Farmer Regains Control of His Crop by Dan Berger on ...: Last month, thousands of them descended on San Francisco to attend the annual ZAP's 18th Annual Zinfandel Festival staged by Zinfandel Advocates and Producers, and to taste hundreds of examples of the dark red wine, 99 percent of which is made in California.

[Wine Library TV] A California Zinfandel Wine Tasting - Episode #706: Idea came to me during this show when I thought of the different zin's Ravenswood has. Least Favorite Zin: Ravenswood Vintners Blend.

[Mike Luckovich from Creators Syndicate] Mixed Blacks by Dan Berger on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent: Joel Peterson, Ravenwood's longtime wine maker, has been making wine since 1976, almost entirely in Sonoma County and mostly focusing on making great Zinfandels. In his quest for older vineyards with older vines of Zin, he has frequently found vineyards that had 40 percent, 50 percent or even 60 percent Zinfandel all intermixed with the other varieties that were part of the Mixed Blacks of decades ago.

[Independent Weekly Listings: Art: Art Related] Ravenswood: No wimpy wines: Food: Wine Beat: In an era when many growers pulled up century-old zinfandel vines to plant more cosmopolitan Chardonnay and Merlot, Peterson was instrumental in saving some of these old stands of vines, dating from the 1800s to 1920, and producing some of today's much sought after "old-vine" specialties. Peterson is ferocious in his belief about the quality of these old vineyards and their ability to produce memorable products.

[WineBoy] WineBoy » Blog Archive » My Purple Passion: Making Old Vine Zin: One of the most respected zinfandel producers in California is Joel Peterson, founder of Ravenswood Winery in 1976, who, along with Paul Draper at Ridge, is considered an authority on the grape.

[Pinotblogger: the Capozzi Winery blog] Great Wine PR: Ravenswood in the SF Chronicle | Pinotblogger: the ...: While I can’t say I blame him the ambition, judging from the passionate tour he gave me of their 150 acre Bedrock vineyard planted to mostly Rhone varieties, I think his passion for Pinot may have been usurped by a new love affair with their 120 year old Zin and Mourvèdre vines.

[Confessions of a Wino] Confessions of a Wino » Blog Archive » Zin”¦bad: On this evidence I am forced to conclude that either the Californians keep all the best Zins to themselves, or that the wine does not travel the Atlantic well.  But I refuse to give up.  I tried olives almost every month until I was 38 before I finally found one I liked.  Now I love them all.  So maybe it’s just a matter of time and if at first you don’t suck seed, try the grape again…

[Wine Weekly] Wine Weekly » Blog Archive » Winery Profile: Ravenswood: For instance, the Ravenswood winery in Sonoma, California has a very clear message: “No Wimpy Wines.” It's more of a promise than a message, actually, and they deliver on that assertion throughout their range of Zinfandels, Cabernets, .The “Vineyard Designate” wines, for example, are made from grapes grown in tiny vineyards in distinct locations north of Sonoma-based winery.

[another wine blog] It Takes a Village to raise a Winemaker | another wine blog: In addition to running Bedrock Wine Company, Morgan is a manager of his family’s Bedrock Vineyards in Sonoma Valley, and a member of Sunbreak Vineyard Services L.L.C, a vineyard management company. He has also passed the prestigious Master of Wine exam and upon successful completion of the dissertation will become one of few American Master Winemakers.

[Bigger Than Your Head] Bigger Than Your Head » Let's Make Some More Rules: Old Vines: It is an article of faith, in Europe (especially France) as well as in California, that wine made from old vines is inherently better than wine made from young (or younger) vines. A vineyard, after being planted, usually takes seven to 10 years to produce grapes that might be made into superior wine, while vines at the ages of, say, 25 to 50 years may potentially produce wines of great character.

[winelifetoday.com] WBW#43 Round-up: Comfort Wines!: Erika Strum of StrumErika.com goes with a Gnarlier Head 2005 Dry Creek Valley Old Vine Zinfandel which she attributes some of the “relaxation” to the high alcohol content. I disagree, unless you get lit off a glass or two.

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