2020 Zinfandel Nouveau, El Dorado, Walker Vineyard in our 1 liter refillable bottle! Notes of strawberry, banana, green olive.
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Nouveau-style wine originated in the Beaujolais region of France as a way to celebrate the end of a successful harvest. Produced and bottled in the same year the grapes were harvested, it was traditionally released on the third Thursday of November as a reward for the hard work put into the vintage. Revolution embraces the Nouveau tradition with the yearly release of this whole-cluster carbonic wine to celebrate a great year!
Vineyard Notes: Walker Vineyard, El Dorado. The Walkers have been growing grapes in El Dorado County since the 1930’s. Their 220 acre property, sitting at 2100 ft of elevation, is planted to Zinfandel, Chardonnay, Barbera & Petite Sirah. The 2020 Zinfandel was sourced from their back vineyard, where the head-trained Zinfandel vines were planted in the 1970’s & are clones of the original plantings from the 30’s, grafted on St George rootstock. The vineyard soil is a coarse loam with lots of sand.
Cellar Notes: 2.5 tons of grapes were picked overnight & were in the winery by 8 am. The grape clusters were dumped without processing into macrobins with dry ice, covered with a layer of CO2 to initiate carbonic maceration & sealed with plastic. After four weeks in the bins (9/4/20), regularly topped with CO2, the juice had fermented down to an average of five brix. At that point we foot-treaded all three bins & let native yeasts finish the alcoholic fermentation, with punchdowns & foot-treadings three times daily until dryness, on 9/7/20. The wine was then pressed gently to tank. Before bottling, the wine was racked twice to remove it from any particulates. The wine was both bottled & kegged with no filtration & with a minimal sulphur addition.
Tasting Notes: The aromas are quite playful, with cherry, strawberry, green peppercorn & banana. The palate is dense with fruits, structured tannins & saline & green herb notes.