Wine Description:
This dark full-bodied wine has complex mingled aromas and flavors of fresh raspberries and loganberries along with a medley of dried blackberries and blueberries. A background of spicy oak and espresso heightens this wine's fruit complexity.
Food Recommendations:
Roasted lamb shank marinated with this Zinfandel and drizzled with raspberry reductions sauce with rice pilaf and a dessert of German chocolate cheesecake.
Vintage Notes:
The 2007 season in Hyampom Valley of Trinity County California made well balanced, bright, and refined wines. Spring came in cold and continued to bloom. This coolness facilitated a naturally low yielding season in turn made more concentrated flavored wines than normal. Summer was mild and constantly even in temperature. Consistent with other seasons, 2007 Summer has warm to hot days and very cool nights which preserved the natural acids in the grapes and thus brightened the rich flavors of this vintage. Tannins of this year for the red wines turned out to be smoother than normal and less tannic which balanced out the elegance of our wines. Overall, 2007 was an excellent consistently smooth season which yielded concentrated well balanced wines which enabled us to continue our family legacy of making small lots of honest hand crafted wines that accentuates varietal characters.
Enology:
| Grape Source |
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Hyampom Valley Ranch, Trinity County, CA |
| Aging |
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14 months in American oak (20% new oak) |
| Acid/pH |
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.74 / 3.40 |
| Harvest Brix |
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26.0 |
| Residual Sugar |
: |
0.1% |
| Alcohol Content |
: |
14.6% |
| Bottling Date |
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August 2009 |
| Production |
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710 Cases |
