I usually find that the LS takes a few years to come around, while the Geyserville is usually ready to go on day one. Anyone else find this?
Beg to differ. The oldest part of that vineyard is, like many of the old vineyards in that neck of the woods, a field blend that contains zinfandel, carignane, petite sirah and grenache. LS may not have disclosed that on the label (I don’t remember) but it was never 100% zinfandel.
Well, I stand corrected. Maybe not 100%, but the stuff I remember was indeed labeled as Zinfandel.
Today’s LS could be labeled that way if Ridge chose to do it. They don’t.
I had a '77 or '78 Lytton Springs from Lytton Springs in Vegas at In-N-Out Burger courtesy of Timko or Bob Summers…don’t remember which…but it was labeled as Zinfandel.
Wetrock should remember it as well.
Geez . . . why do I always have to school you children? The wine only needed to be 75% zinfandel to be labeled that way and the rest could have been anything, though it was most likely the carignane and petite sirah in the original vineyard. The 75% rule still applies today as I recall . . . but my senior moments are becoming more frequent.
Frankly, the old field blend wines have always been among my favorites.
No, you’re right - for Calif it’s 75%. And that pesky Ridge just slipped by 2%. I used to really dig field blends, but less so now. OTOH, I suppose we could easily call lots of stuff a field blend.
How was it?
Honestly don’t remember…you should have been there.
I thought you said he doesn’t travel west.