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• MotoMannequin Likes this wine:

  January 30, 2015 - ZAP Flights! 2015 presented with support from The Historic Vineyard Society (Four Seasons Hotel, San Francisco): Poured at the Zap Flights presentation by the Historic Vineyard Society including discussion with winemaker Scott Harvey. This was the first wine of the Amador County flight, and it occurs to me later that the heavily lemon-scented hand soap at the Four Seasons might account for some of the citrus notes I picked up in this wine, I'm honestly not sure. Just the same, it was a very nice wine!
  
  Medium ruby color, nose of Iron, cherry/cranberry, aromatic spice and a citrus/lime think hiding in the background. Palate is high toned, tart red fruits and citrus notes, coarse tannin on the finish that was a hallmark of all the Amador flight.
  
  I loved the lift the acidity brought to this wine. I called #2/5 on the flight but very close to #1, depending on preference for the approachability of this wine vs. the towering structure of the Turley Sadie Upton.
  
  Scott Harvey claims this is the oldest documented vineyard in California with vines back to the original planting. Amador's remoteness and soil content spared it from the Phylloxera epidemic which devastated vineyards in the late 19th century, leaving Amador with some of California's oldest vines planted on their own roots.

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