This tastes like melted milk chocolate and blackberry jam spread on buttered cinnamon toast, drizzled with some anisette liqueur and sprinkled with black pepper. It’s lusty, robust, high in alcohol and sweet, and it will pair well with barbecue. — (3/1/2013) —87

The dark ruby-hued 2006 Zinfandel La Storia reveals a big, spicy, peppery, briery-scented nose, medium to full body, soft tannins, and admirable purity and density. It is best drunk over the next 3-4 years. An excellent source for value-priced wines, Trentadue continues to turn out big, gutsy, exuberant offerings filled with flavor as well as personality.Tel. (707) 433-3104

This bone-dry wine has rasping tannins and despite some pleasant blackberry fruit has a green herb edge of sage that gives it a leafy bitterness. Seems at its best now.——S.H.(5/1/2010)—— 84