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1023, A Blend of Syrah and Zinfandel
Winemaker Comments:
1023, A Blend of Syrah and Zinfandel.This wine is called 1023 after the address of the Collins Vineyard on Limerick Lane in Healdsburg. The Zinfandel vines are grown on clay loam soils and are all crown pruned. The average age of these Zinfandel vines is over 50 years old. The Syrah is half crown pruned and half trellised. The Syrah vines were planted in 1987.

Tasting Notes:
A very dark purple color is a brilliant prelude to aromas of cooked blackberry and black currant with a hint of Bing cherry as well caramel, vanilla and sweet oak, pie crust, and barrel char, smoky, tobacco and cedar. This wine enters the mouth with big blackberry fruit and a hint of blueberry with fabulous density. The middle palate is saturated with beautifully balanced tannins and acid with amazing purity and texture. The finish lingers with beautiful fruit and barrel flavors. The 2007 vintage of 1023 is our best to date. The long cool growing season produced a fabulous depth to the flavors resulting in a wine that is full, supple, ripe and rather splendid. In order to let the fruit shine, we matched this with 30% new oak barrels rather than swamp it with new oak flavors. We retained the blend at 50% Zin and 50% Syrah and used both French and Hungarian Oak barrels. Pair this with a roasted leg of lamb, braised short ribs or your favorite winter squash recipe.
Only 150 cases were produced.

2007 Pinot Noir Orsi Vineyard
A bright red, clear color leads to aromas of strawberry, cherry, roses, caramel smoke and forest floor. The entry is delicate fresh cherry and strawberry, cola, and caramel. This wine has a soft sexy, silky, yet lively, mouthfeel, with fine acidity. Excellent finish of rose tea, sweet oak and caramel. Falling in the camp of delicate CA Pinot Noir, the 2007 offering from the Orsi Vineyard is further proof that Burgundian style wines can be grown in the Russian River Valley. Picked when flavor, sugar and acid levels were in alignment, the result is a delightful delicate wine that offers fresh flavors and luxurious mouthfeel. It could be described as compulsively drinkable.

A complete zin from start to finish; the explosive '07 Limerick Lane sends oodles of raspberry aromas and flavors in the nose and onto the palate; a shading of earth in end.