Ozv Old Vine Zinfandel California Red Wine

At $11.99 to $17.99 when we ran our checks in September 2026, this old-vine red sits among the friendlier prices we found across reds. It is a Zinfandel from California, a grape with deep roots in the state, made as this kind of red, as the pink wine sold as White Zinfandel, and used in blends.

Regional authorities tie Zinfandel to ripe berry and plum with a hint of spice, and to a fuller body when grapes reach higher ripeness; they add that vine age, when it is picked and how much alcohol builds can shift the result a good deal. The name refers to old vines, though we do not have confirmation of the vine age here, and since we do not have a confirmed account of who makes this particular bottle, its own choices are not something we can spell out.

Two independent retailer pages trace this bottle to Oak Ridge Winery, a family-owned producer in Lodi that calls itself the oldest operating winery in the region, tracing to 1934 and now farming more than 2,500 acres of estate vineyards there. Both retailers describe the fruit as coming from vines 50 to 100 years old, and one lists the blend for the 2021 vintage as 84 percent Zinfandel with small additions of Rubired, Petite Sirah and Malbec, aged about eleven months in oak, mostly French oak with some American oak mixed in. The two retailers disagree on alcohol by volume, one listing 14.5 percent and the other 14.3 percent, a gap neither page explains. One retailer also cites a 94-point score from Wine Enthusiast for the 2022 vintage, though that score comes from the retailer's own listing rather than from Wine Enthusiast directly.

Our call: a strong candidate if old-vine Lodi Zinfandel is the style you are after; two independent retailers trace it to Oak Ridge Winery's 1934 roots and vines fifty to a hundred years old, and the four shoppers on our record all scored it perfect. Pass if you want the producer's own word rather than retailers'; Oak Ridge publishes no page for this bottling, and even its alcohol number differs between the two accounts we hold.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.