You should play it up and try something different. This is big.įather: We announced it on social media a few weeks ago.ĭaughter: Well it just hit mainstream media. Like so many conversations we have these days (she is a busy head librarian in New Mexico), it was by text:ĭaughter: OMG, Snoop Dogg's wine is from Lodi!ĭaughter: Can't wait! You must have an in somewhere. It was my 40-year-old daughter who woke me up to the fact that Snoop Dogg's 19 Crimes Cali Red is an important wine. Lodi grown Petite Sirah, which is the base wine (65%) of Snoop Dogg's 19 Crimes Cali Red blend 14.1% alcohol, which is about par for any commercial California wine (these days many of the state's finest Pinot noirs are higher than that). Not super-sweet like a dessert wine, but just sweet enough to cushion the ripe fruit and generous oak sensations, keeping it from completely drying out the mouth with tannin. And it has what many of the wine cognoscente would describe as a "jammy" finish - code words for super-fruity, or slightly sweet. But while "big" in the nose, on the palate the wine is soft, round, almost cuddly. The aroma mixes black tea, dried herbs, a touch of tobacco/smoke, and red and black berryish fruits.
The color is a deep, opaque purplish-ruby with a bright red outer rim. It's not so much what the label on the 2019 19 Crimes Cali Red ($12) says than what it projects: the iconic face of the long celebrated rapper, Snoop Dogg, in muscular black and tan, with slashes of inky red and black marking pen. Snoop Dogg releases an important wine, and it's from Lodi!
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