Matthiasson Sonoma Valley Zinfandel Armor Plate Vineyard 2022 SHELF Lifted ripe pear and dried

Lifted ripe pear and dried apple with honeycomb notes

before being pressed off to concrete vats for a short rest

sitting on the southern side of Nuits near the famous Les Saint-Georges

Longfellow liked it enough to write a poem about it

Matthiasson Sonoma Valley Zinfandel Armor Plate Vineyard 2022 SHELF Lifted ripe pear and driedArmor Plate is a treasure: a tiny dry farmed, organically tended block of Sonoma Valley Zinfandel planted in the 1890s, now 130 plus years old, owned by the Hamel family (a viticulture client of Steve's). Located in volcanic alluvium near Glen Ellen, the vines deliver Zinfandel that looks nothing like the jammy stereotype. Matthiasson ferments half whole cluster, half destemmed, presses after 14 days on the skins, and ages the wine in neutral Burgundy