Harvest Moon Estate Zinfandel Late Harvest 2006  375ml Not currently available   Your Shopping Cart: Join one of the Harvest Moon Wine Clubs and save up to 30% on wines!

Vintage & Varietal

Vintage & Varietal: 2006 Late Harvest Estate Zinfandel
380 cases produced of 375 ml splits.
Bottled on December 10th 2006
Brix at Harvest: 30.5; Alcohol: 14.5 % by volume; Ph = 3.35 (really)
Residual Sugar: 8.5%

Grower & Winemaker's Notes

The irrigation for this special wine was cut off weeks before harvest. We had selected specific vineyard rows off the Estate to produce this small production dessert wine. The shriveled fruit that was chosen for the Late Harvest program wasn’t the most attractive fruit, as it saw some drizzle, mold and experienced extreme dehydration. Once the fruit was desetmmed, crushed and in t-bins, fermentation was underway where we 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, the fermentation was arrested  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 heavy toasted French oak chips and  yeast.

Tasting Notes

This exotic depiction of the 2006 growing season is jam packed with spicy dark raspberry aromatics followed up with a medium mouth feel and finishes with classic black pepper and bright cherries galore. The wine showcases perfect balance between beautiful RRV fruit, viscosity (RS) and natural acidity. Moreover, the overt tannin structure will allow this wine to cellar well for 5-8 years and perhaps even longer.

This wine was made from a particularly sunny part of the Estate block.  This wine represents the epitome of our Estate Zinfandel… versions of bright juicy red fruit.
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