Guess The Vineyard, Sip Some Zins.
I have two pairs of tickets to the Saturday, January 30 Zinfandel Advocates & Producers GRAND TASTING in San Francisco. Who wants a pair?
The first two people to identify the name and location of the vineyard outlined below get a pair of tickets to the ZAP Grand Tastign. Put your guess in the comments section. I think this is pretty easy for fans of Zinfandel. The tickets sell for $59 a piece.
Why do you want to go to this Zinfandel Grand Tasting? It's the best Zinfandel tasting in the world. You've got 200 Zinfandel producers under one roof. And who are those producers?
5 Mile Bridge Wines
585 Wine Partners
Accademia dei Racemi
Acorn Winery / Alegria Vineyards
Alderbrook Winery
Amapola Creek Vineyards & Winery
Amphora Winery
Ancient Peak
Arrowhead Mountain Winery
Artezin Wines
B.R. Cohn Winery
Ballentine Vineyards
Barefoot Cellars
Barnard Griffin Winery
Bartholomew Park Winery
Bella Vetta
Bella Vineyards & Wine Caves
Benessere
Benson Ferry Vineyards
Blue Moon Wines
Boeger Winery
Bogle Winery
Bota Box
Bourassa Vineyards
Bradford Mountain Winery
Brazin Cellars
Brown Estate Vineyards
Brutocao Cellars
C.G. Di Arie Vineyard & Winery
Cakebread Cellars
Calcareous Vineyard
Calstar Cellars
Carol Shelton Wines
Cedarville Vineyard
Charter Oak Winery
Chateau Montelena Winery
Chatom Vineyards
Chiarello Family Vineyards
Chronicle Wines
Claudia Springs Winery
Cline Cellars
Clos du Lac Cellars
Clos LaChance Wines
Dancing Lady Wines
Dashe Cellars
D-Cubed Cellars
Deep Purple Winery
Del Carlo Winery
DeLoach Vineyards
Dogwood Cellars
Downing Family Vineyards
Dry Creek Vineyard
Easton Wines
Edmeades Winery
Folie a Deux Winery – Trinchero Family Estates
Fontanella Family Winery
Four Vines Winery
Frank Family Vineyards
Gamba Vineyards and Winery
GiaDomella
Girard Winery
Giuseppe Wines & Neese Vineyards
Gnarly Head Cellars
Gnaughty Vines
Gregory Graham Wines
Grey Wolf Vineyards & Cellars
Guglielmo Winery
Gundlach Bundschu Winery
HaGafen Cellars
HammerSky Vineyards
Harney Lane Winery
Hartford Family Winery
Haywood Estates
Hendry
Hook & Ladder Winery
Hunt Cellars
J Dusi Wines
J. Keverson Winery
J. Rickards Winery & Vineyards
John Tyler
JR Wines
Kenneth Volk Vineyards
Kenwood Vineyards/Heck Estates
Klinker Brick Winery
Kokomo Winery
Koo Loo Loo Vineyards
Lake Sonoma Winery/Heck Estates
Lang Wines
Lava Cap Winery
Ledson Winery & Vineyards
m2 Wines
Macchia
Mantra Wines
Manzanita Creek / Salerno Healdsburg Estate Winery
Marr Cellars
Martorana Family Winery
Matrix Winery
Mauritson Family Winery
Mazzocco Winery
McNab Ridge Winery
Medusa Wines
Meeker Vineyard
Michael-David Winery
Miraflores Winery
Moss Creek Winery
Mounts Family Winery
Murphy-Goode – Artisans & Estates
Nichelini Winery
Novy Family Wines
Opolo Vineyards
Orin Swift Cellars
OTTIMINO
Outpost Estate Wines
Papapietro Perry
Paso Creek
Peachy Canyon Winery
Pedroncelli Winery
Peirano Estate Vineyards
Peju Province Winery
Pellegrini Family Vineyards
Perry Creek Winery
Proulx
Puccioni Vineyards
R & B Cellars
Rancho Zabaco Winery
Ravenswood
Ravenswood Quarry
Renwood Winery
Ridge Lytton Springs
Ridge Vineyards
Robert Biale Vineyards
Rockwall Wine Company, Inc.
Rombauer Vineyards
Rosenblum Cellars
Rued Winery
Rusina Wines
Saddleback Cellars
Sandler Wine Company
Sausal Winery
Sbragia Family Vineyards
Scott Harvey Wines
Seghesio Family Vineyards
Selby Winery
Sextant Wines
Shannon Ridge
SideJob Cellars
Sierra Starr Vineyards
Sobon Estate
Sonoma Wine Company
St. Amant Winery
St. Francis Winery & Vineyard
Starry Night Winery
Steele Wines
Stephen & Walker Winery
Stonehedge Winery
Storrs Winery & Vineyards
Storybook Mountain Vineyards
Taft Street Winery
Talty Vineyards & Winery
Terra d'Oro – Trinchero Family Estates
Thacher Winery
The Federalist
The Other Guys
Three Wine Company
Tin Barn Vineyards
Tofanelli Family Vineyard
Trentadue Winery
Tres Sabores
Truchard Vineyards
Turley Wine Cellars
Twisted
V. Sattui Winery
Valdez Family Winery
Valley of the Moon Winery/Heck Estates
Van Ruiten Family Winery
Venge Vineyards
Villa Toscano Winery
Wilson Winery & Vineyards
Wily Jack
Wine Guerrilla
Woodenhead
XYZin
Z-52
ZinAlley Winery
Here’s a look at ZAP 2008 – http://www.wineinterview.com/video/interviews/zap/zapfestival.php – The video is about 16 min long, but is kindda funny so the time passes quickly.
I like the contest, Tom! Good work-
Joe
Dusi?
Make that Dusi Vineyard, Paso Robles.
On second thought, is it the Heritage Vineyard at the Oakville Research Station in Napa?
I believe it is Old Hill Ranch Vineyard
I took a walking tour once of the ranch. Very fun place to visit…quite a history.
It is located near Sonoma, I think officially in Glen Ellen. It is behind the Developmental Center.
Ding Ding Ding….Niels is the winner.
The next set of tickets go up tomorrow. It is in fact the Old Hill Ranch in Glen Ellen. Well done, Niels.
Modern technology and luck…
I didn’t recognize the vineyard right away. I started picking reasonably well know wineries that make zin, and using Google maps to look at their site and nearby areas. After about 1/2 hour, I decided it wasn’t working, and went to lunch.
Over lunch I remembered this Sonoma Land Trust tour of a very old Zin vineyard that I went on a couple of years ago near Glen Ellen. A few minutes with Google maps and bingo!
It was a great tour, and the wine was great. The vineyard is a field blend of a LOT of grape varieties. Check out this map:
http://www.buckzin.com/sonoma-vineyard.html
Congrats Niels!