Venge Vineyards Scout’s Honor Zinfandel

2015 marks another great vintage here at our Calistoga estate especially for varietals like Zinfandel Charbono Syrah and Petite Sirah. The growing season started early after an unseasonably mild winter leading into a cool bud-break resultantly low berry-set. These small bunches outperformed in the cellar: the high skin-to-juice ratio of the must has given us the densest colored wines in decades and inky color happens to be a hallmark of our Scout’s Honor proprietary red wine. We start with a base of old-vine Zinfandel from our Signal Fire Vineyard in Calistoga (where some of those vines have been producing for over 100 years!) and build upon that with dry-farmed Petite Sirah old-vine Charbono and finish with mountain-vineyard Syrah from the Stagecoach Vineyard. The result is an unpretentious red wine that will satisfy time and time again. Not just a fan-favorite this wine honors our late winery dog Scout. This vintage has a gorgeous concentrated assemblage of aromas of