Harvest Moon Estate Zinfandel Late Harvest 2009  375ml $28.00   Your Shopping Cart: Join one of the Harvest Moon Wine Clubs and save up to 30% on wines!

Vintage & Varietal

Varietal: 100% Russian River Valley Late Harvest Estate Zinfandel
Vintage: 2009
Brix at Harvest: 26;  Alcohol: 13% by volume; Ph = 3.32
Residual Sugar: 5.5%
 

Grower & Winemaker's Notes

Once fermentation was underway, the fermenting must was sampled twice daily waiting for 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 to a tank with its temperature set to 30 degrees preventing the natural yeast from converting anymore fructose molecules. Other than small 2 pound non-toasted and light toasted oak chip bags steeped in tank for three months, there was nothing added to this wine. This wine was sterile filtered and bottled in late April 2010.

This wine was made from a particularly sunny part of the Estate block. Left for weeks longer on the vine with only sips of water, this wine represents the epitome of our Estate Zinfandel…bright, juicy perfumed, red-berried fruit. This wine begs for another sip…

Tasting Notes

The 2009 Estate Late Harvest is one of exotic juiciness made in a balanced desert wine approach. With aromas of dusty spiced red fruit, this wine explodes on the palate with juicy bright raspberry. The tart yet slightly sweet fruit lingers long enough to make one not forget its lovely profiles yet leave the palate without the sticky syrupy after taste. Expect this wine to cellar beautifully for the next 5-8 years.