2024 Blasi Zinfandel

Nose of vine-ripened strawberry, cherry and leather. Medium-bodied with minerality, showing its elegant Chalk Hill terroir. SR (12/25)

Winter rains restored deep soil moisture and budbreak arrived during the spring equinox. These vines are planted in chalky, white, volcanic ash soil in a warmer area of the Russian River appellation. The fruit ripened steadily into late September, allowing full flavor development. This lovely zinfandel can be enjoyed young and will continue to develop over the next five to six years. SR (6/25)

Gary Blasi has been farming this old vines vineyard in the Chalk Hill appellation for over forty years on a handshake agreement with owner Jim Metcalfe. This wine has been labeled with Gary’s name to credit his many years of meticulously farming this classic vineyard.

Rainfall: 46 inches (above normal)
Bloom: Mid-May
Weather: A hot July and August brought harvest two weeks early.

Harvest Date: 17 September
Grapes: Average Brix 24.7˚
TA: 4.79 g/L
pH: 3.72
Fermentation: Natural primary and secondary fermentation.
Barrels: 100% air-dried American oak: (10% new, 26% four years old, 64% five-plus years old).
Aging: Fourteen months in barrel

All Metcalfe Vineyard grapes, hand-harvested; destemmed and crushed; fermented on the native yeasts, followed by full malolactic on the naturally occurring bacteria; oak from barrel aging; minimum effective sulfur for this wine (35 ppm at crush, 77 ppm over the course of aging), pad filtered at bottling. In keeping with our philosophy of minimal intervention, this is the sum of our actions.

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