We're Zinfindel fans ... and in particular, we're fond of Ridge Vineyards. We're slowly getting accustomed to reds (doing the natural wine snob evolution from white wine to red) and I can remember the first red that I REALLY loved was the 1997 Ridge Geyserville - what an eyeopener. We even belong to their ATP program where they do small lots of different wines that aren't large enough to release to the market but get direct shipped to customers that belong to the club - have tried a number of wines that way including a late harvest Zinfindel - amazing.

Another (expensive) wine that we recently tried and really liked as well was Viader - it's a 50% mix of cabernet sauvignon/cabernet franc - extremely good.

A cheaper alternative that we're fond of as well is Rosemount GSM (grenache, syrah, and mourvedre).

Masaki