This is the ninth release of our estate-bottled Zinfandel. The fruit originates from the old Baldinelli property that was

planted in the early 1970’s. We choose from several lots. Vines are head-trained and unirrigated. The vineyard is

rigorously suckered for proper cluster spacing and sun exposure to get full flavor development. Flavors are full, rich,

smooth, and gutsy. The wine has huge brambly blackberry fruit, big cedar, spicebox aromas and flavors. It has a smooth

creamy finish from aging in François Frères and Taransaud barrels (1/3 new). 2006 was a particularly interesting year

in the Sierra Foothills and the Shenandoah Valley. Our spring was cool, so fruit set was late and delayed. Harvest began

late because of this cool season, summer was hot in late July, but the quality of the fruit was high. Our estate vineyard

was harvested on October 4th and 6th. Our Zinfandel’s have no residual sugar and nice balancing acidity. We have

bottled the wine in our EASTON “Estate” package with its’ distinctive, but classic label design and heavy bottle.