Winemaker's Notes
With a suave texture, less dark fruit, and more stone fruit and earthiness than our Old and Mature Zinfandel, I am consistently amazed that this wine comes from a vineyard block so close physically to the OMV blocks. Size (of barrels) may matter, but soil matters more! I used to age a proportion of Shale Terrace Zinfandels in 500L puncheons, but I find that the normal 228L barrels coupled with minimal racking allow perfectly good expression of the stone-fruit signature of this area as well. 220 cases produced.
