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The St. Peter's Church Vineyard is in Cloverdale, planted in the 1890s. The fruit is hand-picked, stored overnight in a cold room with dry ice, and the next day bunches are hand-sorted and fermented in open-top fermenters with 40% whole bunches, punched down for about five days. Aged in 500-litre barrels and one foudre (30% new with one-third whole bunch). This wine has layers of rich loamy earth notes, alongside blue fruit and muddled black cherries, with sweet Asian spices and candied violets. Full-bodied, powerful with excellent fruit concentration, with generous tannins that have a bit of good phenolic grip, likely from the whole bunch, finishing with some bright white pepper spice. Hedonistic for sure. Jeff Cohn is originally from Maryland, worked at a winery there, and then went to Fresno State to study wine. He has always been a big fan of Zinfandel. He worked at Rosenblum Cellars beginning in 1996 and left in 2006. During that time, Cohn also made wine under his own Jeff Cohn Cellars label, which is his full focus today.

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Jeff Cohn Cellars, St. Peter's Church Vineyard Zinfandel, Sonoma County, Alexander Valley, California, USA, 2023

The St. Peter's Church Vineyard is in Cloverdale, planted in the 1890s. The fruit is hand-picked, stored overnight in a cold roo

Jeff Cohn Cellars, St. Peter's Church Vineyard Zinfandel, Sonoma County, Alexander Valley, California, USA, 2023

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