2018 Ardure Blush of Zinfandel Beveridge Vineyard

Region: Dry Creek Valley < Sonoma < CAGrape: ZinfandelVineyard/Cellar Stats: CCOF-certified organic farming; soils are gravelly loam with huge chunks of energetic quartz crystal strewn throughout;Grapes rested overnight in the cool room and were pressed off the next day into a VC stainless steel tank where it started primary fermentation. Once primary was finishing, the wine was racked off into neutral barrique on the 19th of September to naturally start ML. The wine immediately underwent malolactic conversion and continued to rest on it's fine lees until racking two days before bottling on April 1st, unfined, unfiltered and with less than 8 ppm free sulphur; 11.5% ABVWinemaker: Jason RuppertArdure, which translates to "the heat of passion" in olde French, is a brand-new project from my good friend Jason Ruppert, who has a long history in Bay Area wine.  He started as a sommelier running wine programs in Marin, Sonoma and SF before migrating into wine production, where he learned