The winner of this years competition was announced and the submission on Evangelho took first prize! I wanted to share since many of us on this board purchase, drink. and discuss wines sourced from Evangelho often.
Writting Compeition?
competition* Thankfully i didn’t enter lol
The cynic in me remembers that Evangelho was the only zin vineyard to also make it recently into that Food & Wine list of top 10 California vineyards ahead of Pagani and other more obvious choices. I think Morgan’s got himself a really good PR company (maybe PG&E is helping because it boosts its currently horrendous image).
On the non-cynic side, good for him. It’s good wine. And it’s good to save that vineyard and all the others they’re helping save.
Thanks for sharing the news, Hank!!
The vineyard grid maps would’ve been a treat if the image resolution was better.
Here are Berserker threads about WWC21 submissions highlighting old CA vineyards:
“Contra Costa Wine Heritage”
“‘Evangelho - The Vineyard at the End of the World’ - Jancis Robinson WWC21”
September 14, '21
“California’s Great Old Zinfandel Vineyards”
“J Robinson’s WWC21 Topic: Old-Vine Vineyard Profiles”
September 15, '21
· “AJ Duckhorn Vineyard, California” by Ezra Wicks
· “Compagni-Portis Vineyard, California” by Mary K. Miller
· “Evangehlo Vineyard, California” by Chris Howard
· “Ray Road, California” by Miranda McCage
· “Scherrer Family Vineyard, California” by Jillian Riley
· “ZinStar Vineyard, California” by Gwendolyn Alley
“Carignan Renaissance, Part Deux”
“Nicolini Ranch (Lodi AVA)”
September 15, '21
· “Nicolini Ranch, California” by Jeff Burrows
I am working on a post about “Alan’s Alicante” by Christina Rasmussen. This WWC21 submission explores the successful transplantation of a 100-year-old Contra Costa County teinturier vineyard.