Quivira Zinfandel Anderson Ranch 2006

Quivira’s Anderson Ranch Zinfandel is grown on Ray and Nadine Anderson’s Dry Creek Valley property, where once grew lots and lots of kiwis. A few years ago, Quivira’s proprietor, Henry Wendt (in his late 60’s) and Ray Anderson (in his 70’s) signed a 30-year lease on the property (“an act of supreme optimism,” says Henry), and Quivira began planting the site to heritage clone Zinfandel. Head-trained and tightly spaced, this sixteen-acre vineyard on Lytton Springs Road is already producing great fruit for such young vines, and can only get better with time.