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WINES
To make the wines, we use traditional fine winemaking techniques such
as small lot fermentations, the use of indigenous yeast on the grapes
to conduct the fermentations, little or no fining or filtration, and
small barrel aging. All the wines are made, tasted, and blended by the
production team of Michael, Anne, and Matt.
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2004 Zinfandel Dry Creek Valley
The 2004 vintage was one that tested a winemaker’s ability to make balanced, flavorful wine without excessively ripe flavors. I am happy to say that at Dashe Cellars, though very judicious selection in the vineyard and our ability to have our vineyards harvested exactly when needed, that we were able to attain the balance and elegance we want in our wines.
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2004 Late Harvest Zinfandel
Sweet and seductive, this wine harvested at 45 brix in the vineyard delivers the essence of zinfandel. With flavors of blackberry, chocolate, and cassis, this is one of our most delicious Late Harvest wines ever. Think bearskin rug, roaring fires, chocolate truffles, sweet nothings.
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2004 Zinfandel Todd Brothers Ranch Old Vines
This steep red rock slope just a few miles north of downtown Geyserville produces one of our most complex and distinctive single-vineyard zinfandels. These thick, gnarly, old-vine zinfandel vines were planted by two brothers 48 years ago—the original Todd brothers—and are now farmed by Ken and Tim Todd, along with their sons, making a three-generation long farming tradition. From our first sight of these vines—and the bright red soil in which the vines are planted—we knew that this vineyard would create a wine unlike any other.
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2004 Zinfandel Louvau Vineyard Old Vines
These wonderful 69-year-old vines were discovered by John Louvau on his newly-bought property in 1989, hidden beneath a field of weeds and blackberry vines that had grown over the old grapevines. Ecstatic over his discovery, John nursed the vines back to health and now they produce some of the best grapes on the entire property. These are classic old-vine zinfandel: head-trained, dry–farmed, with thick gnarled trunks popping out of fist-sized rocks that make up the old riverbed. They produce only about two tons of complex, intense grapes per acre.
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2004 Merlot Iron Oak Ranch
We have yet another splendid example of Dashe Cellars unique blend of intensity and subtlety from our favorite Merlot vineyard, the Iron Oak Vineyard high up in the mountains of Potter Valley. (How can it be a mountain if it’s a valley? We’d have to use maps, but you’ll have to take our word on it. It’s in the mountains).
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2004 Cabernet Sauvignon, Alexander Valley
Our Cabernet Sauvignon from the Todd Brothers Ranch in Alexander Valley is a classic Cabernet done in an old world—i.e. from the Bordeaux region of France—style. It exhibits all of the intensity and complexity of Alexander Valley Cabernet, but with a very balanced, elegant style that is reminiscent of a European wine
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