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Zinfandel Evangelho Vineyard

VARIETALS
90% Zinfandel, 2% Mataro, 2% Carignan, 2% Palomino, 2% Muscat

NOTES

VINEYARD: Evangelho Vineyard. The Evangelho Vineyard is one of the great old-vine Zinfandel vineyards left in California. Planted in 1890 (on its own roots), it is a field planting of Carignan, Mourvedre, Palomino, Muscat, Chasselas and probably some other varieties as of yet unidentified. The vineyard is at the westernmost viticultural edge of California's great Delta. These sands are granite and quartz, literally blown from the Sierra Nevada over millennia. Altitude is 12 meters asl.

VINIFICATION: The grapes were de-stemmed to tank where they soak for a few days before the indigenous fermentation starts. Wine is pressed at cap-fall, allowing it to go nearly dry on the skins. Total maceration time for the wine is 19 days. After a day of settling the wine was placed in seasoned french oak. After malolactic fermentation is complete, the wine is given a single racking and then bottled. Only a small addition of sulfur post MLF.