2019 Ardure 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 were picked over 3 days within one week to make 6 different barrels of juice that were eventually blended back into the finished product.  Two barrels were made like a vin gris rosé and picked the first day at 19.6 brix, foot tread and left on skins for 3 hours then pressed off and fermented in a stainless tank until almost finished with primary fermentation, further racked into 2 neutral french oak barrels for 10 month elevage. 2nd, 3rd lots were picked a week later on two consecutive days at 22.3 brix.  Whole cluster fermented in T bins until almost finished with primary fermentation where I did full body pigeage to break up the partial carbonic berries on the bottom.  Racked into neutral french oak barrels for 10 month elevage; bottled unfined, unfiltered with no added So2; ze