Mount Peak

This intense and concentrated wine is loaded with fruit, florals and spice, each sip revealing a bit more. Big and smooth, fruity notes of black raspberry and blueberry mix with subtle flavors of licorice, brown sugar and a touch of toasted cedar. Share this wine with your really good friends.

Rattlesnake Zinfandel is a tribute to the crest called Rattlesnake Hill, the highest point of the Monte Rosso Vineyard. It’s famous for the rattlesnakes living among the vines, seeking the abundant sunshine by day and coiling around and inside the vines at nightfall. Full-bodied with a spicy frame, this Zinfandel boasts rich aromatics and explosive dark fruit notes. Ripe black raspberry, blueberry, cedar and earth are balanced and seamlessly interwoven throughout the mid-palate. The wine’s intense concentration sits atop well-tamed tannins and is accentuated by generous acidity. Grapes for the 2016 Rattlesnake Zinfandel were primarily selected from Monte Rosso Vineyard (86%) including the Rattlesnake block, as well as Frei Ranch Vineyard in the Dry Creek Valley (8%) and a long-term grower partner in the Alexander Valley (6%). The 2016 season was remarkably even and steady, allowing for optimum flavor development and retention of acidity. Slow, steady and consistent, the character of vintage 2016 shows up in this wine through excellent concentration and outstanding complexity.

The Gravity Red Blend is named for a remote, hard-to-reach block on a lower slope of the Monte Rosso Vineyard. Its location on the edge of a canyon yields grapes with exceptional intensity. Decadent dark fruit notes of plum and black raspberry are balanced with a plethora of supporting players – hints of cinnamon, cedar, graphite and pepper add dimension and complexity to this strikingly rich red blend.