Contra Costa: Putting Sense Before Dollars
Looking from San Francisco “across coast” into Contra Costa County is a lesson in history. It’s what happens when hundred-year-old vineyards of plantings of Zinfandel, Mourvedre and Carignane collide with urban development that refuses to be stopped. When the average price of land today (according to Land Watch, is $2 million […]
National Zinfandel Day: A Celebration of A Historic Grape
This Wednesday is National Zinfandel Day. It is a day that is decreed by ZAP – the Zinfandel Advocates and Producers, a non-profit organization – as an opportunity to celebrate this often maligned grape. I am not usually a let’s celebrate a grape day kind of person, but there was a Twitter tasting […]