Sky Zinfandel 2013

Description:

Region: California

Grapes: Zinfandel

About Winemaker:

The beauty of a Sky wine is in its iconoclasm, and its apartness from what Napa has come to signify. This is as far as it gets from the big, brutal Zinfandels that weve come to associate with Napas chateaux. Instead, a sky wine from Zinfandel and Syrah which ripen above the fog line, and the intense heat of the lower mountain is something much more fine-boned and characterised by svelte, brambly freshness. The fruit is hand-harvested, fermented in open-top one ton bins, punched down by hand and pressed in their ancient wooden basket press. There are minimal sulphites added on bottling.