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"is it a cab or is it a zin"

Manifesto Cabernet sauvignon north coast 2008

"Is it a Cab or is it a Zin?" that's what I said when I tasted this wine.  This is a complex, great-drinking California wine.  Two vineyard sources create the two-sided nature of the wine.  The first and larger, the Inn Ranch, sits on a gently sloped, well drained alluvial bed of gravel and clay. It gives the wine fruit and complexity. The second, the Ellis Ranch, is much steeper and dramatic, and produces an incredibly concentrated, intense wine with deep structure.

Here's what the winemaker says, "our two sites act as a kind of yen and yang to one another: abundant flavor in one and massive but defined structure in the other. In the nose, the 2008 Cabernet jumps out with bold, heady aromas of right-out-the-bramble blackberry, wild strawberry. A wild yeast fermentation keeps the aromas pretty wild themselves, and the slightest kiss of new oak (6 barrels out of 140) provides a little vanilla as well. The aromas carry over into the mouth, where they are complemented by currants, blackberry, cigar-box tobacco, and a touch of minerality we think of as 'pencil lead'. All this is framed by a structure of harmonious acid and fine, seamless-but-pronounced tannin that we are very proud of—the wine reads as something much fancier than its presentation."

Rave rates this wine 90 points.  Perfect for late summer grilling or the Block Party.  $18 per bottle.  (And Manifesto swears there is no Zinfandel in the bottle - I remain skeptical!)

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