Jigar Wines Zinfandel Dry Creek Valley 2018

Add 6 bottles to the cart and receive an additional 28% off current sale price! Or, add 12 bottles to the cart and receive an additional 36% off the current sale price!

Stunning, deeply fruity, and subtly spicy Dry Creek Zinfandel from an artisanal producer, highlighting Sonoma County’s best terroir...  Count us – and all our summertime BBQ seshes – in!

We’ll be straight – Jigar is a wine most of us here in “the trade” keep to ourselves. Wicked good, finely made, screaming deal for what’s in the bottle! Today, we are letting you in on the secret. Jigar is a one-man show, an artisan producer focusing on exquisite expressions of some of Sonoma’s best vineyards. This wine comes from land tucked up in the northern reaches of Dry Creek Valley goodness, from the glorious 2018 vintage, for up to 60% off and available almost nowhere else! Mostly sold through the winery mailing list, we scored a small allotment for you wonderful people.

Sourced from the nine-acre, high-elevation Adams Vineyard in northern Dry Creek Valley, the grapes experience extended hang time due to cooler conditions at night, granting the wine an excellent balance of acidity to round out all the big, bodacious, jammy fruit. This is packed with stewed plums, blackberry preserves, crushed raspberries, and Luxardo cherries, mellowed out with notes of black peppercorn, vanilla, and a touch of toasty oak. Soft and well-integrated tannins wrap this up in a velvet bow, and the zippy finish keeps bringing you in for more, and more, and more.

I’ll 100% be queueing this up for the rest of my summertime cookouts – smoked and barbecue meats, specifically. The luscious fruit characters paired with the smoky, peppery elements just beg for a dinner on the grill, and at a price like this, I’m more than happy to oblige!

PAIRING IDEAS: I’m itching for pulled pork sliders – and the caramelized, crunchy bits of pork along with a topping of tangy pickles and crunchy slaw would sing with this peppery, fruit-packed Zin.