These notes are from the blind tasting done for the competitive San Francisco Wine Competition . Seven teams of tasters took on about 1500 wines over two days of tasting. There were two flights of Zinfandel and our group had one of the two flights which included 26 medal winners. This included 5 double gold Zins.
Double gold means all four tasters in the group agreed that it was a gold medal winner.
These are wines to buy and try if you can find them. But they swamp more delicate and complex wines. Many of these winning wines may not drink as well as they taste. Still the top performing wines in these events tend to be pretty good wines. Most are flashy show pieces.