"There are sassy, street-smart zins and then there are supple, sweet-talking zins. I tasted a fair share of both Staurday in San Francisco, working my way through a maze of people pouring barrel samples of 2000 zinfandels just coming on the market....GustavoThrace, a samll winery in the city of Napa, also makes an elegant zinfandel, one that manages to be both medium bodied and very spicy." "If you'd make zinfandel in the Rhone it would be this," said Thrace Bromberger, co-owner. "I think this is where styles are going. It's less about the vintage and more about the winemkaing style." In most cases I surprised myself, preferring these less concentraed Rhone-style zins, seething with spice......GustavoThrace, 1999 Chiles Valley, Napa Valley $26, March release. Rhone-like, with elegant fruit, and great spice. Medium bodied. Notes of clove, anise, allspice, nutmeg, white pepper and cracked black pepper." Peg Melnik, The Press Democrat, January 30, 2002
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