Maitre de Chai Clement Hills Zinfandel Stampede Vineyard 2023 NO20231018 it trades the usual tropical

it trades the usual tropical fruit for texture and a salt-licked cut

who bottled the family's first Champagne under its own name in 1923

Bernard is the patriarch

unfettered Syrah

to dried fruits

Maitre de Chai Clement Hills Zinfandel Stampede Vineyard 2023 NO20231018 it trades the usual tropicalMarty 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