Free Run Zinfandel from the Borkow Vineyard (future Old School and/or Dry Creek Zin)

As we've written in our previous newsletters, 2010 has been a very challenging growing season. After considerable anxiety whether we were going to be able to harvest much fruit at all, we were blessed with the ideal warm days and cooler nights that ripen grapes slowly but thoroughly.

While quantity was down, quality is excellent, with the wines at this stage showing ripe fruit flavors paired  with balanced acidity and tannins. We purchased fruit from a few established vineyards that were new to us, and have plenty of different lots to blend down the road to create some truly remarkable wines. We also harvested the second crop from the newly replanted vines on our Bradford Mountain Estate Vineyard that show great promise.

The wines are currently going through their secondary, malo-lactic fermentations in barrel, and are developing slowly. Look forward to them sometime after 2013... In the meantime, if you'd like to schedule a barrel tasting, please give us a call or send us an email to set something up!