Breaking Bread Winery Zinfandel, 2020

From California’s northern Mendocino County, this Zinfandel is bold and full of raspberry, plum, cranberry fruit flavors. I offers up an underlying earthiness and it’s acidity events out with a bit of chill and some air. Breaking Bread Wines is affiliated with Kokomo Winery.

From the Winmaker:

In searching out vineyards for Breaking Bread, it was imperative to find vines with age and that are dry farmed, because the goal is to have physiological ripeness come at lower sugar levels. With older vines, we can achieve lower alcohol content by picking earlier but still have great complexity. I also know that the focus of this brand had to be Zinfandel. As a California winemaker, I believe that there is no grape more special than Zinfandel. Old heritage Zinfandel vines that have been in the ground for over 100 years are unique to our region and have such a storied past. They embody the historical roots of natural wines. Unfortunately, this varietal has had a poor reputation for being over alcoholic, slightly sweet and a jammy mess of fruit. White Zinfandel did not help our cause. We wanted to give California Zinfandel a new and fresh face.