Per producer website 8/12/12:


Drinking Window: 2013-2020

Like the Rebecca’s, the 2009 Heirloom is a more poised and elegant expression of the red soils found at my family’s Bedrock Vineyard. Though perhaps not as brooding as the 2008, I find the aromatics of black fruits, pungent orange oil, and exotic spices quite compelling. On the palate the wine is dense and vibrant and surprisingly open given the normally tannic structure imbued into Zinfandel based wines from Bedrock. As always, the wine is a blend of the 26 varieties interplanted from the 121-year-old vines at the ranch. This year’s blend is approximately 50% Zinfandel, 30% Carignane, with the balance being the other 24 or so varieties. 10 barrels and one puncheon made. 60% new, tight-grain, French oak from Ermitage, Rousseau, and Cadus.

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