Storybook Mountain Mayacamas Range Zinfandel 2015

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Region

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Vintage
2015

Size
750ML

Features
Green Wine

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Winemaker Notes

The Mayacamas Range Zinfandel is our primary estate wine from 100% Napa Valley organically grown grapes. Here you will find all the varietal character and fruit for which Zinfandel is famous, plus the depth and structure associated with Napa hillside vineyards, and the balance for which Storybook wines are known. Crafted to be enjoyed on release, the wine’s notable depth and balance will continue its appeal well into the future.

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  • 93
    Brisk and zesty, this zinfandel grows into its cool tones on a steep, northeast-facing hillside above Calistoga, looking out over the Palisades. The iron-rich red earth of that hill is ideal for zin. It’s a marriage of soil and vine that Jerry Seps has sustained through organic farming since he and his wife, Sigrid, purchased the ghost winery and replanted the site in the late 1970s. Seps and his daughter, Colleen, make their wine in the 19th-century caves on the property, naturally humidified by a spring, which might contribute to this wine’s overall sense of coolness. This offers a message of autumn in its layered scents of leaves, dried cranberries, pine and forest mushrooms. All of that savor contrasts the freshness of its red fruit, set to carry the wine as it develops in the cellar
  • 92
    COMMENTARY: The 2015 Storybook Mountain Vineyards Mayacamas Range Zinfandel is an excellent example of a Napa Valley red wine. TASTING NOTES: This wine is firm and generous. Its aromas and flavors of ripe berries stay focused and beautiful through the wine's finish. Pair it with slow-smoked baby back ribs. (Tasted: August 19, 2019, San Francisco, CA)

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Storybook Mountain is a winery totally dedicated to Zinfandel and has established a worldwide reputation for consistently high quality. The Zinfandel tradition began at Storybook Mountain in the early 1880s when its red clay-loam hillsides in the Mayacamas Range were first planted to this varietal. Here, the perfect match of estate and grape allows Zinfandel to show its true potential. Storybook Mountain's sought-after estate wines are carefully hand-crafted from choice grapes grown without the use of insecticides or herbicides. They are aged at least 12 months in the best French and American oak barrels, inside century-old caves dug deep into the mineral-rich volcanic rock underlying the hand-tended vineyard. Proprietor Jerry Seps' Zinfandels are famed for elegance and longevity. Raspberries, black cherries and spice are the keynote of these complex, well balanced wines.
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Undoubtedly proving its merit over and over, Napa Valley is a now a leading force in the world of prestigious red wine regions. Though Cabernet Sauvignon dominates Napa Valley, other red varieties certainly thrive here. Important but often overlooked include Merlot and other Bordeaux varieties well-regarded on their own as well as for their blending capacities. Very old vine Zinfandel represents an important historical stronghold for the region and Pinot noir is produced in the cooler southern parts, close to the San Pablo Bay.

Perfectly situated running north to south, the valley acts as a corridor, pulling cool, moist air up from the San Pablo Bay in the evenings during the hot days of the growing season, which leads to even and slow grape ripening. Furthermore the valley claims over 100 soil variations including layers of volcanic, gravel, sand and silt—a combination excellent for world-class red wine production.

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