Once & Future - Zinfandel 'Old Hill Ranch' 2020 (750ml)

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Price: $49.95

In Mixed Case: $44.96

Producer	Once & Future
Country	USA
Region	California
Subregion	Sonoma
Varietal	Zinfandel
Vintage	2020
Sku	82912
Size	750ml

In 1981, Otto and Anne Teller, who owned the organically farmed Oak Hill Ranch across the highway from Old Hill, purchased the vineyard. In 1983, Otto called to ask if I would be interested in helping revive the vineyard and make wine from the grapes. Otto was a wine lover, but also was somewhat eccentric. He was generous to a fault, prodigious in his creative and generative energy, and uncompromising in his devotion to the natural world and the quality of life. Otto could also be gruff and taciturn. However, he was determined to continue to farm the vineyard organically without irrigation. When we started working with the vineyard, it was only producing about one half ton/acre, which is extremely low. That didn’t seem to bother Otto at all; he was just interested in making good wine. I was definitely on board. I made some of the most interesting wines of my career from this vineyard during that era.

Once & Future Description

The 2020 Zinfandel Old Hill Vineyard is a heady, boisterous wine. The Once & Future section of this historic site has a bit more Grenache than other parcels, and that comes through in the wine's red-toned fruit profile and floral overtones. Rich, deep and layered, with tons of personality, the Old Hill is terrific. Super-ripe red cherry, spice and blood orange linger."

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