Maitre de Chai Clement Hills Zinfandel Stampede Vineyard 2023 NO20231025 hints of ginger

hints of ginger

with iodine and lapsang souchong tea in the foreground

this is fully resolved Right Bank Bordeaux at a moment when older bottles like this are increasingly hard to find

Reserve wines are aged in both oak barrels and stainless steel

and a whisper of spice

Maitre de Chai Clement Hills Zinfandel Stampede Vineyard 2023 NO20231025 hints of gingerMarty Winters and Alex Pitts of Matre de Chai two ex chefs (Cyrus, Quince, French Laundry) turned single vineyard obsessives go to Lodi for this Zin. Stampede is an own rooted parcel up in the Clements Hills, planted in the 1920s on decomposed granite, farmed by the Perlegos family and overlooking, fittingly, the Clements Stampede rodeo. 2023 was a late ripening year that yielded unusually small berries, and the wine is correspondingly dense varietal