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2013 Sky Vineyards Mount Veeder Zinfandel (Previously $30)

SKU #1506053 93 points John Gilman

Outer quote mark As I noted last summer, the 2013 Sky Zinfandel is a first class bottle and every bit as fine an example of Mount Veeder terroir as those illustrious Cabernets made just up the hill at Mayacamas! The bouquet is pure, soil-driven and complex and shows just how serious this varietal can be in the right hands, as it wafts from the glass in a classy blend of black raspberries, spit-roasted game, fine mountain soil tones, cigar smoke and a panoply of exotic spice elements in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and nicely transparent, with a lovely core of fruit, suave, moderate tannins, tangy acids and great focus and grip on the complex and very, very promising finish. This is a serious, relatively low octane Zinfandel (13.4 percent) that is going to age long and gracefully, and though it is quite approachable today, its promise is too good to drink it without at least a bit more bottle age! I am late to the party for these lovely Sky Vineyards Zinfandel, but they are some of the most beautiful examples of this varietal still made in all of California and I cannot wait to visit the winery and really get a feel for what is going on here, as it is all very, very good! Inner quote mark (7/2019)

K&L Notes

Planted in rugged, red, rocky, volcanic soils some 2,100ft up Mount Veeder, Sky Vineyards is a breathtaking place. After working at Mayacamas and Beaulieu Vineyards, Sky Vineyards founder, Lore Olds, purchased this remote piece of land and has been hand-crafting unique and complex wines every since. The vines are tended with organic and biodynamic principles. The fruit is crushed in a tiny, 100 year old wooden basket press and raised in entirely old, neutral French oak. The resulting wines are singular in character with a stunning mix of wild spicy fruit, wonderful earthy tones and structures that will see them cellar for many decades to come. (Ryan Woodhouse, K&L domestic wine buyer)

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2013 Sky Vineyards Mount Veeder Zinfandel

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By: Ryan Woodhouse | K&L Staff Member | Review Date: 11/28/2020 | Send Email

One of the more complex Zinfandel based wines I've ever tasted...no scratch that....one of the more complex wines I've ever tasted, period. If you're looking for a soft, jammy, fruit bomb - this wine is not for you. This is old school, structured, grippy, mountain grown Zinfandel that will age with the best Cabernet based wines in your cellar. To be honest I think this wine really tastes more of Mount Veeder than of Zinfandel per se. The wine has some beautiful dusty red fruits, brambly, briary notes, lots of cedar, earth, cigar box, aromatic spices of cumin and clove plus bass tones of smoked meat and crumbly earth. It is at once quite rustic, but also refined and lifted. Even at 7 years of age this wine still has formidable tannin structure and a taught acid line that both indicate this wine has a few decades of ageing potential...maybe more.

Additional Information:

Varietal:

Zinfandel

- The bid to name Zinfandel California's "State Varietal" may have failed, but this red wine grape, grown extensively in California since the mid-1800s, is grown in few other places in the world. Sadly, much of what's cultivated today is planted where it's too hot and flat. But when planted to well-drained, hillside vineyards that are warm but not too hot, like those in Sonoma County's Dry Creek Valley and Amador County in the Sierra Foothills, Zinfandel can produce wines with plenty of character. High in natural alcohol and tannin, grown carefully it can be rich and complex, with dark fruit berry fruit and peppery spice. The most known example of Zinfandel outside of California is Italy's Primitivo, which can be similar in style, but is often a bit lighter and less alcoholic than West Coast examples.

Country:

United States

- When people consider domestic wine, they normally think about the state of California. The fine viticultural Region within California, including the Napa Valley, Sonoma, Santa Cruz Mountains, Mendocino and Santa Barbara, are capable of growing grapes of world-class quality. But there's plenty of fabulous wine coming from other states, too. Oregon, Washington and New York are also causing eyebrows (and glassware) to be raised around the world.

Sub-Region:

California

- With the explosive growth that California's wine industry has seen the past several years, it's easy to view winemaking and grape growing in the Golden State as a recent phenomenon. And while it's true that California's viticultural history is brief compared to several European countries, this state's roots date back well over 200 years. Due to the enormous response to California wine within the United States and worldwide, there are thousands of excellent and diverse wines being produced within the state each year.

Specific Appellation:

Napa Valley

- America's most famous wine region, which encompasses a varied geographical territory running about 20 miles long from the San Francisco Bay northward to the foot of Mount St. Helena. Napa's great diversity, both in terms of climate and terroir, has led to the creation of a number of smaller AVAs like Stags Leap District, Rutherford, Howell Mountain, Oakville and Mount Veeder, among others. Cabernet and chardonnay still reign supreme, but just about everything under the sun is grown in Napa Valley, in quality levels ranging from $2 jug wine to $500 a bottle California cab.