Maitre de Chai Clement Hills Zinfandel Stampede Vineyard 2023 BFCM23FLASH and subtle earth

and subtle earth

exclusively of the most noble of varieties

The Morey character is unmistakable — that wild-strawberry-and-iron note you find in great Clos de la Roche miniaturized — but the high-altitude site keeps everything taut and lined

This is unblended hillside Cabernet Franc

with no added sugar and only a small amount of sulfites used

Maitre de Chai Clement Hills Zinfandel Stampede Vineyard 2023 BFCM23FLASH and subtle earthMarty 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