The Cocktail Hour: Sierra Foothill Vino Quaff Off
This week, we're pitting neighbors against each other... Story and Villa Toscano wineries. Both are located inward Plymouth, California, nigh two miles apart from each other inward the Shenandoah Valley inward the see of Amador County. Watch the Video! Story weighs inward amongst a 2006 Miss Zin. This is a blend of 50% mission grapes in addition to 50% zinfandel. Villa Toscano brings it amongst their 2008 quondam vine zinfandel. Both wineries dry out farm their zin grapes. That way no H2O other than what Mother Nature provides. Some of these vines larn dorsum over 100 years. The expanse is intensely hot in addition to dry out inward the summer, baking these vines in addition to providing small, intensely flavored fruit. It takes a lilliputian extra operate to extract it. The resulting vino is a heavy, jammy, spicy, tasting inky wine. Done right, it's a sublime sense in addition to holds upward good to nutrient amon...