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Scholium Project Il Ciliegio 2015 750ml

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750ml
country
United States
region
California
appellation
Lodi
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This wine is composed of 100% Zinfandel from the Stampede Vineyard, adjacent to the rodeo grounds in Clements, California—in the warm, dry, northeast corner of Lodi. The soil here is light sand washed down from the Sierras millions of years ago. The growing conditions are very different from the loamy soils of central and western Lodi. The vineyard was planted in the early 1900s and most of it was replanted in the 1940s. This wine is from the younger vines—but still more than 70 years old. All of the vines are planted on their own roots and have been farmed without irrigation for their whole lives. The idea for the wine came to Assistant Winemaker Alex Pitts on a visit to the Emidio Pepe vineyards and winery in Abruzzo. There he tasted a Cerasuolo made as a very light red wine from the dark red Montepulciano d’Abruzzo grapes. It occurred to him that one could make a similar wine in Northern California from old-vine zinfandel, and so he and I—and Chiara Pepe from the winery in Italy—put our heads together and came up with the following protocol: Foot-tread the whole clusters without destemming. We foot tread relatively briefly and leave some of the fruit whole. Macerate the juice and fruit together for 24 hours. After maceration, press gently as for making white wine. Discard pomace and ferment the red juice in neutral oak barrels. Inhibit malo-lactic fermentation to preserve acidity and emphasize freshness. Age for about 7 months, then filter and bottle. Simple and direct. The resulting wine in bright red in color, but much more like a white wine in body, texture, and acidity. It is medium in body, totally dry, and much more savory than fruity. A complete success and an honorable homage to Cerasuolo. Bottled with about 60 mg/L total SO2 and 24 mg/L free. A note on the name: it did not seem fair to call this emulation a Cerasualo, so we used a related word. A Cerasuolo is a cherry-colored wine; we called this “The Cherry Tree.”
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Scholium Project Il Ciliegio 2015 750ml

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Region: California

California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.
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Country: United States

Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.