Easton Wines Late Harvest Zinfandel El Dorado 375ML 2002

Another new product that we are excited about is our 2002 EASTON Late Harvest Zinfandel from the Herbert-Cappelli Vineyard in El Dorado County. Marco Cappelli (Swanson Vineyards) asked us if we wanted to try out his fruit after he purchased the historic Herbert property near Somerset in 2002. We obliged and the fruit lent itself to making a Late Harvest wine in the 2002 vintage. Picked ultra ripe at 30 brix, the wine still retains a sense of style and balance without overt dehydrated Zinfandel flavors. Rich, raspberry milk chocolate flavors with an attractive spiciness that I like to get in most of my Zinfandels. We bottled it in 500 ml bottles, which seemed appropriate for a wine with 16% natural alcohol and about 4% residual sugar.