Storybook Mountain Napa Valley Zinfandel Eastern Exposures 2013 750 ML

This shares the fresh raspberry brightness of the Mayacamas Range (also recommended here), though, for now, it’s tighter, gripped by black, mineral-inflected tannins. Clean and juicy, restricted by its youthful structure, this needs ten years of bottle age to show its best. It should evolve into a classic. Producer Information 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.