2017 Alexander Valley Vineyards Redemption Zinfandel

2017 Alexander Valley Vineyards Redemption Zinfandel

2017 Alexander Valley Vineyards Redemption Zinfandel

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Producer: Alexander Valley Vineyards
Region: 
Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County, California
Varietal: Zinfandel
Year: 2017 

94 points & Gold Medal - Beverage Testing Institute "Exceptional" 
Gold Medal - San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition

 

Winemaker Notes:

"This is a dark purple wine with spicy aromas of dark fruits, dark chocolate, black pepper, tea leaves, oak and vanilla. There are spicy flavors of black pepper, blackberry, blueberry, black cherry, molasses and chocolate. Winemaker Kevin Hall says: 'there is mouth filling texture with a long finish on this big, lush wine." 

About the Wine:

"Winemaker Kevin Hall blends Zinfandel from two sites to showcase the big berry flavors. Eighty-seven percent of the grapes were harvested from valley floor vineyard on West Dry Creek Road where the gravelly loam soil produces fruit with pronounced jammy flavors of black cherry, plum and black pepper. Ten to twenty-five year old valley floor and gently sloping hillside vineyards provided the balance of the grapes, adding the spicy, cherry, plum component.

2017 was a vintage of contrasts. Our ample rainfall in January and February allayed any talk of drought, but winter rains were followed by a warm spring and many heat spikes through-out the summer until we began picking the first lot on September 8.

After harvest the fruit was cold-soaked for 24 hours, then individual lots were inoculated with different yeasts to achieve more complexity in the glass. Twice-daily pumpovers followed to extract col-or, structure and flavor. The wine was barrel aged for 16 months to allow the tannins to soften and the blend of the different lots to harmonize."

Alcohol: 16.1%

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