Ashanta Wines, Zazen Zinfandel Sierra Foothills (2022)
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Sierra Foothills, California— 100% Organic Zinfandel from 97 year old, super high altitude Kaw Vineyards. Seriously good Alpine Zinfandel, not jammy or overextracted, but lifted and herbaceous! Ripe red berries, pine, red pepper, earth. Medium-full bodied with soft tannins. 100% destemmed (in an ode to how Ashanta helped their mentor Tony Coturri with his estate Zin) into an open top fermenter. Aged 20 months in neutral oak. No S02.
The Ashanta wines is a new project from Chenoa Ashton-Lewis and Will Basanta. Chenoa’s family has been farming grapes in California for 3 generations. The couple started making wine after Chenoa’s family mentioned that a site of grapes were not sold and becoming bird food. They make wine in the same facility as Tony Cotturi, and through a few small world connections picked him up as a mentor. They employ various unique techniques, even forage some grapes, and have resurrected some sites after wildfires.