2017 Brown Estate Eastside Zinfandel Napa Valley

This is first wine tasting video I have done in a long while, but I didn't feel it was appropriate to post wine tasting notes immediately after the George Floyd murder and protests. In deciding it was time to start posting wine tasting videos again, I decided I wanted to start with black owned or made wines. Wine Enthusiast posted a great list of black owned wineries world wide:

https://www.winemag.com/2020/06/08/bl...

So, I picked a number of wines to try and today I am starting with Brown Estate, which is the oldest Black owned estate winery in Napa Valley. In 1980, the Brown family bought an abandoned ranch in the Chiles Valley area of Napa Valley and planted grapes and started selling the grapes to local wineries. In 1996, the younger Brown siblings took over and started making wine with their fruit. Today, Brown Estate makes estate Zinfandel, Cabernet and more.

The 2017 Eastside Zinfandel is from a replanted section of the Brown Estate vineyard that is now 8 years old. This is a quite elegant Zinfandel. Nice cherry, graphite and floral notes. On the palate nice cherry, coffee and grapefruit.

Definitely check out Brown Estate wines!



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