2022 Sheldon's Big Bold Red Wine

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Though Basques have lived in California for four hundred years, most started migrating here in the 1800s. For young men from the Pyrenees Mountains, shepherding in central California was a way to parlay a few years of hard work into a better life. My grandfather emigrated to Stockton from Navarre in the early 1900s to work in his cousin's boarding house, where he helped provide a home away from home--and plenty of wine--for his Basque brothers when they came in from the pastures. This wine honors Stockton's ostatuak and is worthy of any bota bag.

Sommelier's Choice Tasting Notes:

Deep purple with aromas of baked black cherry, cassis, and vanilla, the palate is bold and plush with ripe berry sweetness finishing with high alcohol and velvety texture.

Varietal:  75% Zinfandel with 25% Spanish Varietals
Appellation:  Lodi (75% Mokelumne River, 25% Clements Hills) 

Vineyard: 75% Jenner Family Estates Block V
Suggested Retail:  $32
Harvested:  Aug. 25, 2022 and Sept. 11, 2023
Brix at harvest:  24.9
pH:  3.84
Alcohol:  15.9%
Aging:  American and French Oak
Bottling:  August 8, 2024
Production: 139 cases 
Release Date:  April, 2025
Vintner:  Lodi Crush
Label Design:  Alison Wong Design and Jeff Jenner
Awards:

Silver (87 points), Orange County Fair

Silver, Sunset International

Bronze (82 points), Sommelier's Choice Awards

In 2013, after 100 years of producing commercial winegrapes in our family's vineyards, we set aside a block of vines around our home to make exceptional wine for family and Friends.
In Block V, our proprietor personally tends every vine and hand selects every cluster during harvest.  We deliver these grapes to one of California's top winemakers who crafts the wine and matures it in carefully selected American oak barrels.
Taste the wine that we drink!

Varietal: 100% Zinfandel
Appellation:  Lodi-Mokelumne River

Vineyard: 100% Jenner Family Estates Block V
Suggested Retail:  $32
Harvested:  September 6, 2019
Brix at harvest:  25.0
pH:  3.57
Alcohol:  14.8%
Aging:  20 months in New American Oak
Bottling:  July 17, 2021
Production:  125 cases
Release Date:  June, 2022
Vintner:  Lodi Crush
Label Design:  Alison Wong Design
Awards:
Gold (92 points), Orange County Fair
Silver (91 points), California State Fair
Silver, San Francisco Chronicle

Harold Jenner was the quintessential mid-century Lodi man.  A World War II veteran who fished in the Delta, camped in the Sierras, hunted in his vineyards, farmed on the weekends, and managed winery operations during the week, he loved every minute of living in Lodi.
For this special reserve wine that honors a life well lived, we chose grapes from the vineyard surrounding Harold's home, made the wine on his hundredth birthday, and aged it in new French oak barrels from the country he helped liberate in 1944.

Varietal: 100% Zinfandel
Appellation:  Lodi-Mokelumne River

Vineyard: 100% Jenner Family Estates Block V
Suggested Retail:  $36
Harvested:  August 26, 2021
Brix at harvest:  25.4
pH:  3.62
Alcohol:  15.1%
Aging:  20 months in New French Oak
Bottling:  August 14, 2023
Production: 121 cases 
Release Date:  December, 2023
Vintner:  Lodi Crush
Label Design:  Alison Wong Design
Awards:
Silver (89 points), Orange County Fair

Silver, San Francisco Chronicle
Bronze, California State Fair