Ravenswood Vintner's Blend Zinfandel 2003 - typicity?

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None of these are available in Sweden. The only Cline one was an entrylevel Zin at SEK 89 - since the Home Ranch cost 119 here, and USD 6.50 in the US, I would hazard a rather low price for the CLine, and typicity to match.

BTW, what _is_ typical of Zin? According to one of my friends in Sweden, 'Zin can tast any way'.

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Nils Gusatf

Mark, this may be what you meant but just wanted to point out that historically the Vintners Blend was not made from purchased grapes but blended by Joel Peterson from purchased *wines* - that's where the name comes from. Even before the sale of the winery, Ravenswood was in process of moving production into a new facility, which was supposed to enable increases in volume as well as bringing more winemaking in-house. What's going in to Vintners Blend these days, I have no idea.

Mark W.

Ravenswood's quality has degraded a lot, and had been declining even before Joel Peterson sold out to Constellation Brands. There are so many other, better Zins around. I would not waste my money on Ravenswood.