This is old-vine Zinfandel at its finest. Red and blue berries, dried herbs and dusty earth.
Variety: 100% Zinfandel
Vineyard: Lopez Vineyard
Location: San Luis Obispo, CA
Alcohol: 13%
Production: 216 cases
Think candid raspberry and blueberry, accents of tea leaves, dried flowers and dusty earth.
Picked in early August and fermented with native yeast and 50% whole cluster. The grapes were basket pressed at dryness and then aged for 8 months in old French oak barrels before being racked for the first time to bottle, without fining or filtration, and with minimal sulfur used.
Planted in 1918, 70 miles inland from Los Angeles and Certified Organic by CCOF, Topotero Vineyard is part of California history. Farmed today by the Galleano family, these vines are farmed without irrigation in granite rocks and sandy soil surrounded by freeways and track homes. This vineyard is one of the last reminders of an old California.
