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BONNEAU WINES has scored high again at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Judging Contest held in Cloverdale, CA. For the third year in a row and since we've been competing, every wine we have entered has received a Silver Medal or better!

We compete with 1,500 wineries from all over the United States. There were over 4,200 wines entered this year.

This is the LARGEST COMPETITION of American Wines in the World!

Sixty professional wine judges representing trade, education, media, retail and restaurants throughout the United States evaluated the best wines made in America. Five judges rate each wine in over fifty categories.

ZAPPED AGAIN!!

by Pierre du Mont – The Wine Corner

Each month noted wine expert Pierre du Mont features an interesting wine or group of wines from around the world. Pierre, though French, is Scottish at heart, thus he is always in search of great bargains to share with his readers. Pierre's aim is to give readers the information needed to make smart wine purchases. He picked just a dozen outstanding wines from the 550 Zinfandel offerings at the 2007 ZAP Festival, including Bonneau Zinfandel.

Every year I look forward to it with almost equal measures of anticipation and dread. The "it" I refer to is the ZAP tasting–one of the world's largest wine events and without a doubt the world's largest single varietal tasting. ZAP stands for Zinfandel Advocates and Producers and every January for the past 16 years they have been calling all Zinfandel fanatics to San Francisco's Fort Mason pavilions to sample America's home grown favorite. I anticipate the ZAP tasting because I love Zinfandel and the dread only comes from the sheer size of the event – 300 wineries and 9,000 tasters. That's right – 9,000!

I bring my own set of rules to the tasting. I don't write about the big three, Ridge, Ravenswood, and Rosenblum because everybody who loves Zin already know how great they are. And I don't write about wineries I have written about in the past few years. Instead I search for very high quality, small production wines that many people may not be familiar with. This year I'm glad to report I came across some real gems. The following wines are the real standouts, the cream of the crop of this year's ZAP tasting.