Steele Zinfandel Pacini

''VINEYARDS This special bottling of Mendocino Zinfandel is a combination of our favorite Mendocino Zinfandel vineyards. Lolonis Zinfandel Vineyards were planted around 1980 and the Pacini Vineyard was planted in 1943. Pacini is dry farmed thus is a low yielding vineyard with concentrated flavors. SEASON 2012 was a very good growing season with hardly any rain throughout the year and harvest. A beautiful spring and summer were followed by harvest conditions that were ideal producing quality and focused wines. WINE STYLE & TASTING NOTES All of the fruit is hand harvested and quickly delivered to the winery. The grapes are de-stemmed and gently crushed to tanks for fermentation. We ferment each vineyard lot separately. Following fermentation we pressed and racked the individual vineyard lots to American and Hungarian oak barrels for 8 months. Based on our stylistic approach to Shooting Star wines this Zin is lighter and fruitier than our Old-Vine Steele Zinfandels. We used ap