Trinitas Cellars Zinfandel - Old Vine 2004
Region: Contra Costa County
Winery: Trinitas Cellars
Variety: Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, Mataro, Carignane, Alicate Bouschet

The Old Vine Zinfandel shows wonderful dusty raspberry, blackberry, white pepper and spice, with coffee and chocolate characters. Aging in new and used wood has lent this wine a subtle vanilla quality that compliments nicely the explosive fruit notes. Enjoy this wine presenly for its effusive black fruit, or cellar for 5 to 7 years. This Zinfandel is and integrtion of the best climate, soil types and winemaking, which is an expression of the Trinitas philosophy.
Winemaking:A per-fermentation cold soak with traditional pump-over cap management preserved the unique fruit qualities of this wine. After malolactic occurred in neutral wood, an addition of 30% new American oak was used to enhance the spice flavor components and to frame the fruit with added structure in the mid-palate. During 11 months of aging, this wine was racked once and only lightly filtered before bottling.

Posted by thewinery on December 3rd, 2007 at 9:13pm | report comment