Fife Dalraddy Vineyard Zin

What To Expect From This Wine
With zinfandel, our goal is to produce a wine with strong and dense fruit, liveliness, personality and beauty—and one that expresses a sense of place. Achieving this goal, we believe, requires focusing on growing the best grapes and then handling them gently. We hope, above all, to avoid over ripeness, excessive wood, excessive alcohol, and any other factor that would mask the nuances of flavors so unique to this personality-rich variety.

A Very Special Place
The Dalraddy Vineyard is a perfect zinfandel site in the Chiles Valley within the Napa Valley appellation. The old, head pruned vines have good sun exposure, and are protected from the hot afternoon sun by the hills that define this small valley. In exceptional vintages, we select some of the best barrels from this vineyard to produce our most dense and concentrated zinfandel.

About the Harvest
The 2001 growing season in the Napa Valley was long and steady with very warm conditions in September ripening the fruit to ideal picking quality. The color and fruit intensity developed over the longer season into the dark and concentrated berries we love to see on the old vines.

The Gentle Art of Winemaking
Our winemaking philosophy is simple: obtain grapes with personality, handle them minimally, and then focus on blending to bring out nuance and character in the wine. We depend upon the vineyard to create the fruit, the density and the concentration. In the winemaking process we seek to assure balance, elegance, texture and length of flavor.

Tasting Notes
The 2001 Dalraddy Vineyard Zinfandel shows dense, black, concentrated fruit with ripe, jammy, blackberry, and dark plum fruit flavors. The soft, well-structured tannins and mellow oak undertones balance the concentrated fruit giving the wine the richness, power and concentration we expect from this vineyard.

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