Tasting notes:
Big Top Old Vine Zinfandel. Aromas of vanilla, cracked black pepper and dark damson fruit. On the palate this wine is round and fleshy, beautifully balanced. And packed full with robust red fruit flavours and a lick of oak.
Food Pairing:
Great with roasts and BBQs.
Producer/Region: The Big Top Old Vine Zinfandel
Boutinot has been working with growers in California for over 10 years. Finessing their offering from vintage to vintage, increasingly with specific estates sourcing old vine material and site-specific fruit. The current range of wines are sourced from the warm region of Lodi in Central California. Winemaker Samantha Bailey brings her esteemed palate and decades experience to hone these elements into the brightest wines of The Golden State.
The grapes are selected from old vine Zinfandel vineyards in the Lodi region of central California. Vinified in stainless steel tanks and sees a little oak ageing.
Zinfandel (also known as Primitivo in Italy) is a variety of black-skinned wine grape. The variety is grown in over 10 percent of California vineyards.
The grapes typically produce a robust red wine, although, in the United States, a semi-sweet rose (blush-style) wine called white zinfandel has six times the sales of the red wine. The grape’s high sugar content can be fermented into levels of alcohol exceeding 15 percent.
The taste of the red wine depends on the ripeness of the grapes from which it is made. Red berry fruit flavors like raspberry predominate in wines from cooler areas, whereas blackberry, anise and pepper notes are more common in wines made in warmer areas and in wines made from the earlier-ripening Primitivo clone.
