Ravenswood Zins Question

[Randy Caparoso]

Sounds like most of you are stepping around the issue, which is typical when it comes to wineries with great reputations. The fact is, most of the Zins Ravenswood has been producing in recent years have been pretty average in quality. Some are big, but big does not necessarily mean big, sumptuous fruit. The Ravenswood Zins of today don't come close to what they were, say, seven, eight, ten years ago. If you ask me, they grew too fast and haphazardly (from a few thousand, handcrafted, naturally fermented cases, to something like 100,000 today).