Dear Friends,
Welcome to the first Turley release of the new decade! Let’s kick off 2020—and the first release of our 26th vintage! — with a bang, shall we?
The 2018 vintage marks the 20th harvest for our beloved Turley Estate Zinfandel in Napa!
We’ve done a bit of spring cleaning and re-organizing. One of the first (teeny) changes I made when I started working at Turley nearly a decade ago was to move the Old Vines from the spring to the fall release—seemed like a no-brainer to give that wine more time in the bottle and offer it during more suitable weather, and it’s all the better for it! Now, the powers that be (Larry) agreed to give it a shot with the Howell Mountain wines (Rattlesnake Ridge & Dragon) as well! It’s something I’d wanted to try for quite some time, but as you can see, it can take a while (nearly 10 years!) for everyone (ahem, Dad) to get used to a new idea. In the same vein, we decided to move the Pesenti Zinfandel to the current release. This beautiful certified organic estate wine, with its delicate floral and vibrant red fruit aromatics, always seemed more suited to springtime anyway!
Finally, it is with heavy hearts that we bid farewell to the prize-winning poet and overall beautiful person Jane Mead, along with her incomparable vineyard, Mead Ranch. The 2018 Mead Ranch will be the 19th and last vintage under Turley. We mourn the loss of a grower and her eponymous vines and will treasure her memory alongside this final paradigm of Atlas Peak Zinfandel for many years to come.
Old Vines Young Love,
Christina Turley, Larry Turley, & Tegan Passalacqua
Turley Wine Cellars