Grant Street Vineyards Zinfandel 2005
Region: Napa Valley
Winery: Grant Street Vineyards
Variety: Zinfandel

Our extremely limited 2005 Grant Street Vineyards Zinfandel fruit came from the Navone Ranch in Oakville, California. The grapes were picked in late October at 26 brix. The quality was outstanding! After de-stemming, the grapes were put into a small open top fermentor. After fermentation the wine was drained, pressed and inoculated with malo-lactic culture. The wine finished malo-lactic fermentation while aging in French oak barrels. Our Zinfandel aged 18 months in the barrel prior to bottling.
The result is an extremely limited production of Napa Valley Zinfandel that is ripe, plush, fleshy and concentrated. There are layers of blackberry and raspberry fruit that approaches jamminess. The wine has excellent structure, depth, balance and proportion and picks up a cedar oak character on the finish.

Posted by thewinery on December 1st, 2007 at 10:57am | report comment

Grant Street Vineyards Zinfandel 2005
Region: Napa Valley
Winery: Grant Street Vineyards
Variety: Zinfandel

This Zin is unlike any others I have had. It defines complexity, and is not your typical overly ripe fruit bomb. This wine is great to be enjoyed now, but will also hold up a couple 3-5 years. Very impressive run from Grant Street considering it's their first vintage. I look forward to the next release!

Posted by rayree on March 31st, 2008 at 2:58pm | report comment