Skip to content
Frank Melis' WineFrank Melis' Wine
  • Home
  • Tasting Notes
  • Articles
  • Spotlights
  • Events
  • Other
    • Wine Tasting 101: The Complete Guide for Everyone
    • View All Posts
    • About us
    • Meet Frank Melis
    • Free Shipping!
    • Golden Gate Wine Cellars
New Wave Petite Sirah Stunner, 94 Points VERY LIMITED ALLOCATION

The new wave of Petite Sirah wine making going on these days is drawing attention [...]

09
May
Gregarious Napa Zin from 100+ year-old Vineyard

  The RW MOORE VINEYARD is one of California’s oldest and best known Zinfandel vineyards, [...]

09
Apr
LAST CALL 4 Scarlett Cabernet 2018 Release

  Scarlett Wines is a family operation owned by the McGah family, who are most [...]

22
Jan
A Zin for Cabernet lovers
October 12, 2021

Named after Jack Ireland, one of the area’s earliest (and rumor has it, most rebellious) [...]

Bella Lily Hill, THE BEST California Old-Vine Zin, BAR NONE! NOW 10% OFF
September 25, 2021

The 2018 vintage of Bella Lily Hill is sourced from Bella’s 1.2 acre old vine [...]

CAUTION: Content is now 100% “legal” but habit forming!
June 3, 2021

The Prohibition Story about Black Chicken: Going back to the early 1900’s … Hey Aldo, [...]

ZINFANDEL OF THE YEAR!
May 25, 2021

  Carlisle has always been one of those coveted wineries, so I always get excited [...]

Tofanelli Winery, burned in 2020 fire NEEDS (Y)OUR SUPPORT
February 20, 2021

Dear Friends, You might know that many wineries and vineyards were lost in the 2020 [...]

25% OFF Ehren Jordan’s utterly classic Zinfandel
January 18, 2021

Ehren Jordan is an Helen Turley protege, who took over at Turley after Helen and [...]

Zinfandel of the Year & FREE SHIPPING TOO!
January 8, 2021

Scarlett is a family operation owned by the McGah family, who are most notably known [...]

One of the few remaining Old-Vine Zinfandel Producers… Still Rocks!
November 19, 2020

  Shepherded by a family heritage of over six generations of grape farming – it [...]

Zinfandel of the Year!
February 10, 2020

  Scarlett is a family operation owned by the McGah family, who are most notably [...]

TURLEY AT ½ the PRICE & FREE SHIPPING!!
October 1, 2019

The RW MOORE VINEYARD is one of California’s oldest and best known Zinfandel vineyards.  Turley [...]

ZINFANDEL… CALIFORNIA’S GRAPE?
July 11, 2019

ZINFANDEL… CALIFORNIA’S GRAPE? By Allen Balik Napa Valley Register My last column generated a broad [...]

Zinfandel – The fascinating history of ‘California’s grape’
January 2, 2019

Zinfandel – The fascinating history of ‘California’s grape’ By Allison Levine Napa Valley Register Croatian [...]

95 Point Zin!
December 1, 2018

From the Winery: Our Estate Zinfandel is our flagship wine.  Originally planted by Italians at [...]

ZinSation of the Month
August 18, 2018

Gamba Vineyards is a small, family owned vineyard and winery in Sonoma County. The  110 [...]

“Gold Standard” under $40 Red
August 3, 2018

The Hendry family has been farming the same vineyard in Napa since 1939. The lessons [...]

Complexity in a bottle…
April 5, 2018

The Nalle story starts in 1974 when Doug Nalle landed his first job as a [...]

2017 Zinfandel of the year!
January 9, 2018

   In 1956 a San Francisco dentist and his wife purchased 121 acres on Westside [...]

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
Copyright 2022 © Golden Gate Wine Cellars
  • Home
  • Tasting Notes
  • Articles
  • Spotlights
  • Events
  • Other
    • Wine Tasting 101: The Complete Guide for Everyone
    • View All Posts
    • About us
    • Meet Frank Melis
    • Free Shipping!
    • Golden Gate Wine Cellars