Harvest Moon Estate Zinfandel Late Harvest 2005  375ml Not currently available   Your Shopping Cart: Join one of the Harvest Moon Wine Clubs and save up to 30% on wines!

Vintage & Varietal

2005 Late Harvest Estate Zinfandel
120 cases produced of 375 ml splits.
Bottled on December 18th 2005
Brix at Harvest: 30.5; Alcohol: 15.4 % by volume
Residual Sugar: 8.4%

Grower & Winemaker's Notes

I cut off the irrigation weeks before harvest. We had selected a specific vineyard row to produce this very small production of super intense exotic dessert wine. The shriveled fruit that goes into our Late Harvest isn’t the most attractive fruit, as it has seen some drizzle so there’s some mold and extreme dehydration. Once fermentation was underway, I tasted the fermenting must twice daily waiting for just the right balance of alcohol, flavor components and residual sugar. When I felt the wine was in balance, I arrested the fermentation via pressing off, dropping the wine temperature to 30 degrees and racking immediately off its lees. There was nothing added to this wine other than a small bag of oak chips and Assmanhausen yeast.

Tasting Notes

Black perfumed fruit aromas billow from the glass and upon entrance, it fills the mouth with lavishly rich and complex spicy black pepper and fresh juicy blackberry cobler.  Our Late Harvest Zinfandels will age beautifully for no less than a full decade.  The longer one waits, the softer the fruit.