2004 Icon Mixed Blacks Sonoma County
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The 2004 harvest was very early, noted Joel Peterson, but so was the budbreak, and the actual hang time was close to normal. Ravenswood harvested its first zinfandel grapes on August 14 (in Lodi), before any extreme heat had occurred. "There were then a lot of very warm, dry days in the first half of September but we didn't get a lot of desiccation," Peterson told me. "Afterwards it cooled off nicely. "Peterson describes his 2004s as "balanced wines with great fruit, not monster wines. Due to the fairly moderate summer we did not get intense tannins and thick skins. "