Maitre de Chai Clement Hills Zinfandel Stampede Vineyard 2023 NO20231018 who bottled the family's first

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

At the right moment

unfettered Syrah

and the focus has not changed: low-intervention farming

perfumed nuances of cedar

Maitre de Chai Clement Hills Zinfandel Stampede Vineyard 2023 NO20231018 who bottled the family's firstMarty 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