Martinelli Zinfandel Giuseppe & Luisa 2004

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Winery:

Martinelli Winery

Varietal:

Zinfandel

Region:

USA > California > Sonoma County > Russian River Valley

Type:

Red Wine

Color:

Drink Dates:

Drink Now - 2019

UPC:

 

User Tags:  big, bramble fruits, berry, blackberry, fun, integrated, oak, resinous, spicy, thanksgiving 

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What to Expect

Zinfandel is considered America's own great indigenous grape, even though its origins lie on the Adriatic coast. Planted throughout California and the Pacific Northwest, Zinfandel is at its best in warm regions with cooler temperatures during harvest. The wines can range from off-dry Rosés, White Zinfandels, and light bistro styled wines, to big, rich powerful wines - even luscious wines for dessert bottling. The flavors range from plummy to raspberry, although deep blackberry fruit and brambly spice tones are most common.

Winemakers Notes

The grapes are picked between 25 and 26 degrees brix and are hand selected at harvest time by Lee
Martinelli Sr., who walks through the vineyard and tastes them. The fruit samples are then brought to the
winery lab where wine maker Helen Turley tastes the juice and decides when to pick according to the flavor
concentration. After picking, the whole berries undergo a long cool fermentation to generate skin contact and
expose fruit character and are fermented with wild yeast. The juice is gravity fed into small oak barrels with
a touch of residual sugar remaining to complete read more...the fermentation process in barrel until dry. It rests in 75%
new French oak on its gross lees for ten months. The grapes, juice, and then wine are minimally handled.
This wine is neither heat nor cold stabilized and is unfined and unfiltered.
Wine Maker: Helen Turley Assistant Wine Maker: Bryan Kvamme    (hide)

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