The rent for the land was to clear the old vines that grew there.
IS there a good zinfandel not made from old vines?
A simple rose was made from the old vines.
Almost all come from old vines, some of them 100 years old.
"Why do you have to sort these stupid old vines anyway?"
Some are working with fruit from very old vines.
But they found old vines on the property, which was a vineyard before prohibition, and the rest is wine history.
They ripped out their old vines and planted new varieties.
The goal is to help grape producers and save old vines.
In the Rhone, there are vines at least 70 years old.