Zinfandel Port

[Thomas]

Georgie, it could be planned or it could be unplanned, or it could be a combination of the two. There are no rules, no regulations, no formuli for wineries to follow.

The winery might have had a vintage with too few grapes for any production quantity; might have had poor quality in one year so saved some of the juice for an opportunity to blend away; might have taken three years to produce the kind of wine they wanted to produce by design.

The "unique vintages" quote, however leaves me to suspect that they used grapes unusable for table wine--that is the cynic in me talking, or is it the realist???

On one other note: purists would not like to refer to wine produced outside of Oporto by the moniker Port--kind of like the Champagne issue.