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- zenda2 - 12-28-2002
Trying to revive an earlier 'best buy' thread for other varieties for New Years, so why not Zin as well. What's your favorite Zin under $15? At that price point, I'll go with Za Zin from Laurel Glen or Rancho Zabaco Dry Creek but I'd love to find some others.
- joeyz6 - 12-28-2002
I just had Rancho Zabaco for the first time last night with my dad and was very pleased. Kinda makes it frustrating that I was paying 20 bucks a bottle for Paso Robles zin when I went out there for a visit this summer. Anyway, the 2001 Dancing Bull was a very good drinking experience, especially at $5.99 a bottle. It needed about an hour to decant and open up but it was well worth it. My dad and I are usually pretty modest drinkers but we sucked down the whole bottle.
- Drew - 12-28-2002
Zenda, check out my November post http://www.wines.com/ubb2/Forum16/HTML/000210.html.
I particularly liked the 2001 SEGHESIO Sonoma at $14 and enjoy the entry level Peachy Canyon zins that can be found for under $15.
Drew
- joeyz6 - 12-28-2002
I like those Peachy Canyon zins also; bought a couple of them at the winery this summer. But at 15-20 a bottle, they're not quite as good a value as Rancho Zabaco, for example.
- Drew - 12-29-2002
I think it's more like different styles. The Peachy Canyon wines being more elegant than the rustic styled Rancho, IMHO.
Drew
[This message has been edited by Drew (edited 12-29-2002).]
- stevebody - 01-11-2003
Ballantyne Napa Valley. $14.99. I PROMISE you will swoon. I've slipped this stuff into blind tastings with Martinelli, Rafanelli, Hartford Court, and upper-end Ravenswoods three times and it came out first in two of them and second in the other. Awesome and I suspect it will soon cost more. Buy now!
- rden258 - 01-13-2003
I have to agree on the Ballentyne. I had the 97 a few months back. It was one of the cheapest bottles on the wine list (which is why I ordered it), but it was as good as any other zin I have ever tasted. I ended up drinking the whole bottle myself while on the Napa Valley wine train. The only time so far I have polished off a whole bottle myself in one night. Probably not the last [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/smile.gif[/img].
- Thomas - 01-13-2003
I am partial to Pellegrini Old Vines--$15.
- Kcwhippet - 01-13-2003
Cline - several versions thereof.
- stevebody - 01-14-2003
Jeez...senility setting in. Totally forgot the Kenwood Lodi (I think it is), the Bogle Old Vines, the Rosenblum Cuvee with Whatever the Latest Number Is, the Franciscan Oakville (at a slightly higher price; about $16), the Shenandoah Vineyards, and the Renwood Sierra Foothills. All lovely and BIG. Oh, and the Viano Vineyards, which hit Seattle just last spring and was everybody's favorite $7 bottle of wine.