World Wine 2004 Starry Night Lodi Zinfandel

Lodi, California Starry Night Lodi Zinfandel is a beautiful representative of the fine Zinfandels that have been grown in the Lodi appellation for over 100 years. Starry Night Winery became a bonded winery in 1999. The founders, Wayne Hansen, Skip Granger, Mike Miller and Bruce Walker, started making wine at an amateur level many years earlier. Their winemaking philosophy, driven by a passion for wine, is simple: "attention to detail, as well as keeping our production of any one wine to below 1000 cases, provides us a very high quality hand crafted wine that distinguishes us from many of our larger competitors." This new Lodi Zin actually exceeds that production goal, but is still quite limited at just 1600 cases. The fruit comes from two Lodi vineyards: 53% Grafigna Vineyard and 47% Marschall Vineyard. Starry Night Lodi Zin is well structured with fruit-forward aromas and flavors of blackberries, cherries, pepper, spice and eucalyptus. Deep ruby red in color with bright acidity, it is medium-full in b