Frog's Leap Winery

Zinfandel, 2018

Name: Zinfandel
Brand: Frog's Leap Winery
Price: 70.81 GBP

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2018
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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

The wine that initially turned us on to Frog’s Leap was their Zinfandel. Coming from dry farmed 40 year old vineyards, this is a wine straight out of the old school; moderate in alcohol, co-fermented and given little to no new oak, it’s a great advert for just how versatile, interesting, and downright drinkable Zinfandel can be when done well. Small proportions of Carignan, Petite Sirah and Valdigue are harvested and fermented with the Zinfandel, bringing nuance and flavour complexity, while simultaneously moderating the alcohol level. As such, this cuvee is almost always under 14%. In 2018, this opens up with wild red fruits, dry stones, warm back pepper, sweet cherry, then flowers. On the palate those bramble fruit notes come with gentle grip, a complex note of bay and burnt embers, salt, rosehip and dried plums. Freshness, complexity, tension – what more could you want!

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

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Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.