2022 Old Vine Zinfandel

With notes of crushed blackberries, menthol, and mellow vanilla and crushed red peppers spice, this Old Vine Zinfandel is full and concentrated without being cloy or sweet and is enjoyable on its own or with any hearty meal. Produced from 40-year-old vines on a south-facing hillside in the middle of Dry Creek Valley, this field blend of 84% Zinfandel with 14% Petit Sirah and 2% Syrah was harvested on September 12, 2022, and fermented in stainless steel for fourteen days, then gently pressed and racked to neutral American oak barrels to age for seventeen months. Bottled February 15, 2024. Very enjoyable even now, upon release, this wine will gain complexity over the next 3-5 years. A very small production indeed, just 67 cases produced.