Maitre de Chai Clement Hills Zinfandel Stampede Vineyard 2023 GERAUS which is roughly 300 years

which is roughly 300 years before Champagne figured out how to put bubbles in a bottle on purpose

Prosecco with a point of view

graceful finish

A grown-up red for people who love Bordeaux but want it with a little California sunshine

Maitre de Chai Clement Hills Zinfandel Stampede Vineyard 2023 GERAUS which is roughly 300 yearsMarty 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