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    2014 Amapola Creek Zinfandel Monte Rosso Vineyard 750 ml

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    A Parker Favorite Zin—Now Your New Go-To

    A Parker Favorite Zin—Now Your New Go-To 

    Zin lovers know where the good stuff is: Biale, Matt Cline’s Three Wine Company, Turley, Bedrock, or Paul Draper’s Ridge. But here’s one you might not know about: the 2014 Amapola Creek Zinfandel Monte Rosso Vineyard is a pure and concentrated dollop of outstanding Zin. Dense red and black fruit aromatics are doused with a hint of pepper and cured meat and delivered with precision and depth—an unalloyed mouthful of high-elevation, dry-farmed, grandfather Zinfandel grown in mineral-rich, volcanic ash red earth soils on the slopes of the Mayacamas. Precious stuff, considering the ridiculously low yields borrowed from history each year. 

    There are old vines and then there are ancient vines, and Amapola Creek Zinfandel Monte Rosso Vineyard comes from one of California’s most significant plantings dating back to 1886. Listed in the top ten oldest registered vineyards by the Historic Vineyard Society, this Sonoma site is renowned for high-elevation purity, prized by producers such as Louis M. Martini, Orin Swift, Biale and Amapola Creek’s Dick Arrowood, the winemaking legend behind this tremendous red.

    Parker’s 94-point score comes on the heels of a healthy string of 92+ point scores doled out over the years, with the venerable critic and publication always impressed with the fruit and the skill that goes into Amapola’s bottlings. “There’s no resting on his laurels,” writers Parker of Arrowood, “Even after a career that started in 1965 and continues 50+ years later.” Arrowood is the Sonoma icon behind some of California’s earliest vineyard-designate wines, created during his days at Chateau St. Jean.  

    Fans of Ridge, Turley, and Biale know that top bottles of old vine Zinfandel routinely go for $50 or more. The 2014 Amapola Creek Zinfandel Monte Rosso Vineyard drinks superbly now but can hang in the cellar for at least another five years. At under $40, we suggest holding back a few bottles to experience the development on vines older than 130-years.