Dashe Zinfandel Heart Arrow Ranch Les Enfants Terribles

Wine Information
This wine shows excellent fruit and mineral aromas, and the wine has an absolutely beautiful texture and depth of flavor. Although this wine is beautiful to drink right now, it can improve with age as well, at least 8 years from the vintage date. 

How is this wine different? First of all, we don't crush the grapes but instead use whole clusters and uncrushed destemmed grapes to create a "carbonic maceration" style of wine. We ferment the wine native yeasts on the grapes; age with the wine in a huge 900 gallon French oak barrel; and bottle the wine with low SO2 levels. Like other wines in the Les Enfants Terribles (the "Wild Children") series, this wine is made in a more Old World style (i.e. soft and elegant) style than a classic California Zinfandel. 

Color: Dark Red
Armoa: Extremely aromatic, black cherry, pomegranate, earth, violets, clove spice, black pepper
Taste: Soft, velvety texture, mouthfilling, complex flavors of black cherry, pomegranate, strawberry, black raspberry, chocolate, minerals, and black pepper spice.