Around the World - USA

 

Our Around the World in lockdown Food and Wine Tour continues with USA as Country No. 5.

And the food had to be Hamburger with Zinfandel as the wine. The burger and chips were Deliveroo'd from Meating Room. Burger was fine, chips were good and plentiful, and it was good to get a bread roll (toasted) rather than the all too common brioche that just disintegrates in ones hand.

The Zin was one of a case I'd bought from The Wine Society.

2018 Once & Future Wine Zinfandel Oakley Road Vineyard (USA, California, San Francisco Bay, Contra Costa County)

This was made by the King of Zin, Joel Peterson, late of Ravenswood. When Ravenswood got too big he sold it and started a small operation that would get no larger than he could personally make wine.

The Oakley Road vineyard was planted with Zinfandel wines on their own roots 118 years ago. The  deep sands of the vineyard were deposited by river flooding, washed down from gold-rush excavations, and give protection from phylloxera.

The wine is restrained and elegant, offering purity of fruit and great pleasure. It was aged in French oak barrels, 30% new.

Country 4 was Greece