Stirm Zinfandel 'Wirz Vineyard' 2019 Spain

Stirm Zinfandel 'Wirz Vineyard' 2019 SpainZinfandel gets a bad rap it had a juice bomb 'Sin Zin' moment in the early 2000s, with all oak, all Mega Purple, no balance or lift in the vast majority of the grocery store versions of this variety in California. But it's not a fair assessment of the entire variety, whose parentage is from the Mediterranean (it's related to the older varieties Primitivo and Croatia's Plavac Mali). Ryan Stirm makes this Zinfandel from off the special, windy, old vine

the San Rosendo Centenary Malbec

Drink in a dark Manhattan

The fermented cider is distilled together with the addition of wheat-based spirit

The food is imaginative but never complicated

and chocolate

and low alcohol are all compelling reasons to explore this boundary-pushing fermented number

30% Pinot Noir

with gentle floral notes

described as "a multidimensional wine with striking and unexpected layers

')" - Julia Kramer

vibrant Barbera

Muscadet with character: vinified in concrete