Violet's Paradise Zinfandel, Monte Rosso Vineyard 2023 (750ml) *

Zinfandel grown in California hillside vineyards tends toward ripe, brambly fruit and generous body, and this bottling from the Monte Rosso Vineyard, released as Violet's Paradise in the 2023 vintage, works in that mold. It is a wine built around the grape's natural exuberance, the kind of red that leads with dark berry fruit and a warm, open texture rather than restraint.