Berserker Day – Jul 2025

VinDependence Day 2025

We are honored and delighted to be invited to participate in Berserker 2025 VinDependence Day. We are offering our core gig, Old & Mature Vines Zinfandel, an interesting study in Platt Pinot Noir from the wine library and Grenache from a special site in Sonoma county. Special VinDependence Day pricing of 20% off on these select 3 and 6 packs. 

OMV is our Mantra, refined since 1991. It perplexes me that few producers attempt this restrained, latent and food-friendly style. While it takes particular focus to harvest this unevenly ripening variety at the optimum time, the reward is a wine that stands right up alongside the typical ‘noble grapes.’ It’s almost like Zinfandel has become the elevator music of wine due to the generally elevated ripeness level most producers seem to think this grape must be forced to endure. This is the wine that really illustrates who we are and how we approach all the varieties we work with.

Sonoma County Kick Ranch Grenache Study. Kick Ranch is located in Rincon Vally which is on the cooler end of the spectrum for this variety in Sonoma County. It has been typically among the last grapes brought in each vintage. In 2017, it was harvested about a week before the Tubbs fire that devastated much of Santa Rosa after ripping through this site minutes earlier during the night. There is great depth to these wines without being heavy or heady.

Platt Vineyard Library Checkout. Along with several esteemed colleagues, around 2000, I was invited to get in on the ground floor with several blocks of vines right at planting time. We were all able to select clones we wanted to use there. My run of vintages from this fine site was 2007-2021. This swath of library releases is in the middle section of this run, showing some bottle development which is something we value highly here.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions at info@scherrerwinery.com