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| Drinking window: Drink between 2014 and 2020 (based on 27 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.4 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 13 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by merryberry on 12/14/2019 & rated 91 points: Four years later, and its better. Still fresh but more complex, balanced, and delicious. Drink up, no reason to wait. (534 views) | | | Tasted by merryberry on 11/21/2015 & rated 90 points: Cloudy magenta. Bramble, cola, and nutmeg nose. Medium bodied, blackberry pie, black cherries, pepper, well integrated tannins, cedar, baking spice, a bit of heat, and a nice long finish. Drinking well now. (1179 views) | | | Tasted by klezman on 4/26/2015: Excellent aromatics - blackberry jam, baking spices, and on the palate a nice freshness that just worked quite well. Great wine. Hid the 15% alcohol quite well also. (2614 views) | | | Tasted by klezman on 11/24/2014: Big blackberry and bramble fruit. Great acidity yet soft and approachable. In a great place now and should have years of life ahead of it. (2825 views) | | | Tasted by ecola on 9/9/2013 & rated 88 points: Soft and refined style with blackberry and dark cherry. Very smooth finish. (1967 views) |
| 2008 Wellington Zinfandel Estate VineyardVarietal Composition:88% Zinfandel, 8% Carignan, 3% Petite Sirah, 1% Grenache
60% ancient vine (84-116 year old vines)
Production: 168 cases
Alcohol:15.0%
pH: 3.52
RS: 0Zinfandel ZAP: Zinfandel Advocates & Producers | Varietal character (Appellation America) | Wikipedia-ZinfandelEstate VineyardFrom the Producer:
Coury Clone Block: In the spring of 2000 we took over the farming of what is now our Estate Vineyard from Autumn Wind Winery and Vineyard. Even though the purchase of the property and business would not occur until later that year we were entrusted with running the operation as if it were our own already. The vineyard was only around 22 acres at the time with a good deal of plantable land available. There were also areas that needed to be addressed. This block was one of those. This was originally planted in 1985. It is on a very steep facing at the apex of the vineyard’s hillside. The terraces that had been built to account for the hill’s grade were collapsing making tractor work hazardous. On top of that years of soil neglect had created an extremely untenable growing environment for the plants. We decided to tear this section out and start again. At this juncture Dijon clones were quite fashionable (not they are not now, just more so in an outsized sort of way back then) and since the vineyard was solely Pommard and Wadensvil we decided to plant Dijon 777. The decision never panned out. Despite having the Etzel Block to its west, the Wadensvil Block to the north and the Hallelujah Block (the largest portion of the Estate Old Vine) this block never produced wine anywhere near the quality of its neighbors. For 15+ years we saw harvests produce wines that usually were scheduled for our Willamette Valley bottling rather than something more unique and individual. While clonal makeup is not the defining character of terroir it is an aspect and in this case, we felt that aspect was holding things back. In the spring of 2019, we traded some vineyard management expertise for cuttings off our block of Coury Clone at Freedom Hill Vineyard. Given our success there and at Hyland Vineyard with this unique, Oregon-based clone we felt like we could maximize the setting. In one vintage, not counting the smoke taint-befouled 2020 vintage, we found that we were proven correct. More good things to come from this interesting part of our Estate!
Farming Practices: We have done the management of this property internally since we purchased it in 2000 with the exception of 2014 and 2015 when Sterling Fox’s management service did the work. Also, at that time, the vineyard was switched entirely to organic farming practices and remains so to this day. The vineyard has always been dry farmed.USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma ValleySonoma County, California, is one of the most important winegrowing regions in the whole of the United States. Vines have been planted here since the 1850s and, apart from the inevitable hiatus brought about by Prohibition, the county's relationship with wine has been prolific and unbroken.
Viticulturally speaking, Sonoma County is divided into three distinct sections: Sonoma Valley, Northern Sonoma and Sonoma Coast. Each of these has its own AVA title and encompasses several sub-AVAs within its boundaries. |
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