Top 100 Wines: Zinfandel and other reds
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2011 Edmunds St. John Bone-Jolly El Dorado County Gamay Noir ($17, 13.3%): This forthcoming version of Steve Edmunds' take on high-altitude Gamay from plantings near Camino is a gorgeous snapshot of a cooler year - with savory celery salt, subtle cassis and raspberry. Once a curiosity, there's now a definitive case for this grape to thrive high in the Sierra.
If you believe that California's future can be defined by its past, just take a look at these selections.
Zinfandel, of course, has always been the state's grape - and right now it has more serious practitioners, and interpretations, than it has in years, in large part because of the revived interest in heritage vines that have endured through the years.
But those vineyards contain a more complicated story - which is why grapes like Trousseau and Carignane have had a quiet resurgence not only up and down the length of the state but also in some unexpected places...
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/wine/article/Top-100-Wines-Zinfandel-and-other-reds-4081090.php
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