2024 Wirth Zinfandel

Zinfandel is a notable part of California’s history, introduced during the Gold Rush. It’s also a foundational grape in our own history as a winery as we’ve harvested Zinfandel since 2002. We love older expressions of California Zinfandel – lighter styles with vibrant acidity and inviting fruit, before it became too overly ripe and high in alcohol. Our winemaking returns Zinfandel to its origins as a pleasing table wine. Unlike the playful nature of our other Zinfandel wine, Vine Starr, our Wirth Zinfandel is a more fruit concentrated expression from heritage vines. Organically farmed in Solano County Green Valley (just east of Napa Valley), these older vines produce lower yields that are highly concentrated, resulting in a wine with more depth and structure. The grapes were destemmed with a little whole cluster sprinkled in open top fermenters, with twice daily pumpovers. We aged the wine in neutral oak barriques for eleven months.

FUN FACT: The Wirth Zinfandel vines are over 75 years old – planted in 1948. They are dry farmed and thrive in iron rich soil.