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Rating: 92 Pts Connoisseurs Guide to WineSize:750ML
Region: California Country:United States
Varietals: Not Available ABV:14.5%

More Ratings:

92 Pts Connoisseurs Guide to Wine

"From its intense, wild-berry aromas to its concentrated, keenly defined, eminently fruity flavors, this very deep and impressively filled effort hits the varietal mark smartly. It is full and fleshy in feel and always quite well-balanced, and it shows off a fair bit of grippy last-minute tannins without losing its fix on fruit. It is very much built along table wine lines, and it has all the makings of a Zinfandel that will improve for a good half-dozen years." -92 Points - Connoissers' Guide to California Wine

VINEYARDS:
"Ottimino Vineyard, “our home ranch,” is planted on the land that previously nurtured Ottimino Christiani’s apple orchard. It is located on the same ridgeline as Von Weidlich and Rancho Bello Vineyards, and shares their Goldridge soil structure and temperate climatic traits. Brad Alper planted the vineyard rows to run nearly north and south, providing proper exposure during the long summer days. The vines are trained to a vertical cordon, much like stacked goblets, dappling the clusters with sunlight and cooling breezes."

"Budwood came from benchmark old vine Zinfandel vineyards, and two blocks feature the Mendocino and Bradford Mountain selections. A smaller block, planted a few years earlier, contains the Costa Magna selection and stock from the Von Weidlich and Rancho Bello vineyards, extending the historical lineage of the area’s Zinfandel. The vigorous, disease-resistant St. George rootstock minimizes virus potential and aids vine growth in our dry-farmed conditions. Like all of Ottimino's vineyards, the vines are cropped for low yields to achieve unique flavors and unparalleled quality." -Winemaker

VITICULTURE:
"This second vintage from the Ottimino Vineyard was harvested on October 06, giving us exactly the kind of hang time we expected to find in most vintages in this cool section of west Russian River Valley. The 2005 growing season was, in fact, the longest and most temperate seen since perhaps 1997—warm but reasonable temperatures and never a threat of rain, ideal for dry-farmed vines. Despite heavy crops California-wide, cooler regions like ours were normal, and Ottimino Vineyard had barely two tons per acre." - Winery

VINFICATION:
"We crushed and fermented the fruit utilizing our standard practice of minimal intervention. The must was cold-soaked for two days prior to inoculation with D254, a Rhone isolate. Extraction with irrigation and punchdown continued until dryness, when the new wine was pressed off. Malolactic finished during aging in 50% new French oak custom-built for Ottimino by Roberts Cooperage. The wine was racked quarterly and bottled without fining." -Winemaker

This wine was also scored 90 Points by the Wine Enthusiast and 84 Points by the Wine Spectator.

Description:

"From its intense, wild-berry aromas to its concentrated, keenly defined, eminently fruity flavors, this very deep and impressively filled effort hits the varietal mark smartly. It is full and fleshy in feel and always quite well-balanced, and it shows off a fair bit of grippy last-minute tannins without losing its fix on fruit. It is very much built along table wine lines, and it has all the makings of a Zinfandel that will improve for a good half-dozen years." -92 Points - Connoissers' Guide to California Wine

VINEYARDS:
"Ottimino Vineyard, “our home ranch,” is planted on the land that previously nurtured Ottimino Christiani’s apple orchard. It is located on the same ridgeline as Von Weidlich and Rancho Bello Vineyards, and shares their Goldridge soil structure and temperate climatic traits. Brad Alper planted the vineyard rows to run nearly north and south, providing proper exposure during the long summer days. The vines are trained to a vertical cordon, much like stacked goblets, dappling the clusters with sunlight and cooling breezes."

"Budwood came from benchmark old vine Zinfandel vineyards, and two blocks feature the Mendocino and Bradford Mountain selections. A smaller block, planted a few years earlier, contains the Costa Magna selection and stock from the Von Weidlich and Rancho Bello vineyards, extending the historical lineage of the area’s Zinfandel. The vigorous, disease-resistant St. George rootstock minimizes virus potential and aids vine growth in our dry-farmed conditions. Like all of Ottimino's vineyards, the vines are cropped for low yields to achieve unique flavors and unparalleled quality." -Winemaker

VITICULTURE:
"This second vintage from the Ottimino Vineyard was harvested on October 06, giving us exactly the kind of hang time we expected to find in most vintages in this cool section of west Russian River Valley. The 2005 growing season was, in fact, the longest and most temperate seen since perhaps 1997—warm but reasonable temperatures and never a threat of rain, ideal for dry-farmed vines. Despite heavy crops California-wide, cooler regions like ours were normal, and Ottimino Vineyard had barely two tons per acre." - Winery

VINFICATION:
"We crushed and fermented the fruit utilizing our standard practice of minimal intervention. The must was cold-soaked for two days prior to inoculation with D254, a Rhone isolate. Extraction with irrigation and punchdown continued until dryness, when the new wine was pressed off. Malolactic finished during aging in 50% new French oak custom-built for Ottimino by Roberts Cooperage. The wine was racked quarterly and bottled without fining." -Winemaker

This wine was also scored 90 Points by the Wine Enthusiast and 84 Points by the Wine Spectator.