The Story
Marty Winters and Alex Pitts of Maître 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 Zin dialed up. Native yeast, a mix of open-top and barrel ferments with whole clusters, 16 months in cask, bottled unfined and unfiltered. Powerful but not jammy, with the bones to age.
Description
Marty Winters and Alex Pitts of Maître 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 Zin dialed up. Native yeast, a mix of open-top and barrel ferments with whole clusters, 16 months in cask, bottled unfined and unfiltered. Powerful but not jammy, with the bones to age.
