2018 Still Life...

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Diego from Zumo wines connected me with the Poor family up in the mountians over Hopland. I had been expressing my frustrations with finding good organic fruit to buy.

The Poors are lovely people and true farmers down to their core. All of their vineyards are organic, dry farmed, and head trained.

I got 2 tons from the Woodyard Zinfandel block. Whole clusters were placed in a fermenter with direct-pressed juice pumped over the top and left to infuse for 4 weeks.

Diego from Zumo wines connected me with the Poor family up in the mountians over Hopland. I had been expressing my frustrations with finding good organic fruit to buy.

The Poors are lovely people and true farmers down to their core. All of their vineyards are organic, dry farmed, and head trained.

I got 2 tons from the Woodyard Zinfandel block. Whole clusters were placed in a fermenter with direct-pressed juice pumped over the top and left to infuse for 4 weeks.

It was so exciting watching how the wine and grapes reacted to this treatment over time.

Ultimately, I learned a lot about natural winemaking in California and the importance of site selection and making the right type of wine with the grapes at hand.

There were two versions of this wine. One in heavy glass was 0/0 and the later bottling with light glass had a small dose of sulfur. Both wines sucked. So I never used sulfur again, realizing that it was many other factors that were more important to making good wine.