Maitre de Chai Clement Hills Zinfandel Stampede Vineyard 2023 NO20231025 and a whisper of spice

and a whisper of spice

made with Cheval Blanc's customary obsession

with iodine and lapsang souchong tea in the foreground

and spice layered in perfect balance

One of the rarest bottles in existence from Burgundy's most storied domaine

Maitre de Chai Clement Hills Zinfandel Stampede Vineyard 2023 NO20231025 and a whisper of spiceMarty Winters and Alex Pitts of Matre de Chai two ex chefs (Cyrus, Quince, French Laundry) turned single vineyard obsessives go to Lodi for this Zin. Stampede is an own rooted parcel up in the Clements Hills, planted in the 1920s on decomposed granite, farmed by the Perlegos family and overlooking, fittingly, the Clements Stampede rodeo. 2023 was a late ripening year that yielded unusually small berries, and the wine is correspondingly dense varietal