Wine Closet : White or Red?

 My first memory of wine is White Zinfandel. Yes, that is the same wine that made California so immensely popular. Zinfandel was an distinctive California wine. It wasn't until decades later that Old Vine Zinfandel was not only the rage beside the French Judging event putting California on the proverbial wine map. 

Yes, we had our #Sunset magazine and even our prestigious  wine making region but, now as everyone should know there is more to California wine than one region or one grape. 

I enjoy different wine varietals just as much but, aside from the performative white or red question is the ingenuity of wine and the industry as a whole. Bonney Doon Vineyard wine and its revolutionary winemaker Randall Grahm who started using the controversial Stelvin Cap or screw cap if you must be so rude. Its that ingenuity that is going to be gone upon the Oligarch regime in 2025. That tenacity and audacious bravery to try something new. To utilize a method that isn't conventional just like that of choosing a California Cabernet Wine over an established French wine. 

Well, we all can't hear Martin Luther's call to let the masses be able to read the word of God too. As radical thinking goes making wine accessible and more valuable isn't a bad thing. The only problem is its not going to make you very rich. Randall can tell you that making wine and selling wine are two different industries that are also separate from farms that grow the grapes for wine production. 

The regulations, the taxes, the rules, and the heretics that will proclaim that sin is in a bottle of wine can make the rather simple process of turning water into wine ( no offense to those who do it to practice their religion ) into an ordeal that would make Death a welcome guest. 

Still, the waiter asks Red or White? I find that I will start with a white wine, a Chenin Blanc use to be my go to, but now in my older age I am enjoying Chardonnay as I find Sauvignon Blanc to grassy or astringent for my tastes.