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Wine Details
Price:
$14.00 per bottle
Description:
Taken from our top old clone vineyard block that tends to ripen later in the season, 2003 harvest conditions provided an opportunity to create a special vintage of Windsor Oaks’ first late harvest Estate wine. The old clone grapes were given extra weeks on the vines to achieve intense character and high sugar levels. Careful hand harvesting and sorting both in the field and at the press provided superb fruit. Extended cold soaking before fermentation further extracted the deep color and rich fruit flavors and aromas.
It is with great pride that we offer the result, a deep garnet colored, full bodied dessert wine that evokes the long ripened fruit of late summer sun-drenched hillside vines.
With a slight hint of caramel oak and figs, its aroma may remind you of vintage port, but the flavor and finish are cleaner and less cloying to the palate, with lower alcohol levels. The mouthfeel is rich, concentrated and chewy, with dark berry jam flavors, finishing with a burst of red licorice, plum and dried apricot.
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Varietal Definition
Zinfandel:
Zinfandel is a variety of red grape planted in over 10 percent of California wine vineyards. DNA fingerprinting revealed that it is genetically equivalent to the Croatian grape Crljenak Kaštelanski, and also the Primitivo variety traditionally grown in the 'heel' of Italy. It is typically made into a robust red wine. Its taste depends on the ripeness of the grapes from which it is made. Red berry fruits like raspberry predominate in wines from cooler areas such as the Napa Valley, whereas blackberry, anise and pepper notes are more common in wines made in warmer areas such as Sonoma County. Many Zinfandels come from head pruned ‘Old Vines’. ‘Old Vine’ is generally understood to mean a vine that is more than 50 years old and that produces less than three tons per acre. ‘Head Pruning’ is an old European style of pruning that trains the vine into the shape of a goblet. It requires no wires or other complex trellis systems. Head pruning spreads the fruit uniformly along the vine and allows light penetration.In the USA a semi-sweet Rosé (blush-style) wine called ‘White Zinfandel’ has achieved widespread popularity. In fact, this popularity has so outstripped all other forms that many fans think there is actually a grape called “White Zinfandel” (there isn’t)!
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