93 Points - Wine Enthusiast
Delicious with tomato-sauced pastas, harder cheeses, and grilled things, especially portabello mushroom caps. Buon appétito!
VINEYARD
The 130-year-old Planchon Vineyard in Oakley is the source of this interesting "Italian blend" of Barbera with its companion vines of Zinfandel and Merlot. The Barbera rows are a veritable jungle of vegetation on the perimeter of the ancient Zin vines; they thrive on their own roots in this sandy soil.
WINEMAKER: Carol Shelton
VARIETAL: 75% Barbera, 13% Zinfandel, 10% Merlot, 2% Rose of Peru
VINEYARD: Planchon Vineyard
APPELLATION: Contra Costa County
FERMENTATION: 3-day cold soak, fermented in 0.8-ton T-bins and a 3-ton open-top fermenter & punched down by hand twice daily, 2 different yeast strains, 10 days total on skins.
AGING: 7 months in Hungarian, American and French oak barrels.
TA: 0.64 gm/100ml
pH: 3.48
VINTAGE: 2022
ALCOHOL: 13.2%
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