2022 Sweet Berry Wine
2022 Sweet Berry Wine
2022 Sweet Berry Wine
2022 Sweet Berry Wine
2022 Sweet Berry Wine
2022 Sweet Berry Wine
2022 Sweet Berry Wine
2022 Sweet Berry Wine
2022 Sweet Berry Wine
2022 Sweet Berry Wine
2022 Sweet Berry Wine
2022 Sweet Berry Wine
2022 Sweet Berry Wine
2022 Sweet Berry Wine

2022 Sweet Berry Wine

$42.00

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This vintage of our flagship wine needed some time to stretch its legs. Releasing it in 2025 is like a reward – ready to drink and showing incredible complexity, suave and finesse.

The path to this bottle wasn’t without drama. After years of drought, 2022 brought long-awaited rainfall—and with it, a bumper crop of plump, juicy berries. But the growing season wasn’t all generosity: brutal heat waves pushed vineyard temps as high as 120°F, testing even the most resilient vines. Thanks to vigilant shoot and crop thinning, we harvested a beautiful, balanced crop that translated into one of the most expressive vintages of Sweet Berry Wine to date.

Sweet Berry Wine is made for crisp autumn nights, fireside conversations, and celebratory feasts. From holiday dinners to après-ski hangs, it brings vibrant fruit and spice to the table—and it’s as versatile with food as it is generous in spirit. This is a wine we’ll keep reaching for, year after year.

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Label Art by Duke Aber

59% Zinfandel | 27% Carignan | 7% Valdiguié | 7% Charbono

The grapes for this blend are grown on dry farmed old vines and sourced primarily from vineyards in the center of Mendocino County near Calpella. All of the vineyards we source from are practicing organic. The blend has a base of 59% Zinfandel with 39% of it coming from Glass House Vineyard in Redwood Valley. The balance of the Zinfandel, the Charbono and most of the Carignan came from Gary Venturi’s vineyard in Calpella, where they are farmed in Yokayo sandy loam soils. The additional 9% of the Carignan and all of the Valdiguie came from Frei Vineyard in Solano Green Valley.

This release is bursting with bombastic aromatics—layers of raspberry, red cherry, cocoa powder, and forest floor. On the palate: deep cherry, red plum, and red licorice unfold across fine-grained tannins and a long, savory finish. It’s a wine that’s both bold and suave, full of verve and polish.

All of the fruit in this blend was hand-picked, with each block selected and fermented separately. We take a slightly
different approach with each fermenter to build complexity in the final blend. No additions were made to the fruit at
the time of reception, and we do not perform cold soaks. All lots were fermented with native yeast in open-top
fermenters.

Extraction was kept minimal, limited to just one gentle punchdown per day. Once dry, the wines were drained and pressed, then aged in a mix of neutral 228L Burgundy barrels, new and used 600L French demi-muids, and 500L puncheons. Press wine was kept separate and not included in the final blend.

In the spring following harvest, we racked the wine with light lees and blended it into three blocks to allow the more structured lots to marry with the leaner ones—achieving greater cohesion and balance. One month before bottling, we unified all the blocks and returned the wine to barrel for a final few weeks. One week before bottling, it was racked clean to tank for a total barrel aging time of 14 months. This wine was bottled unfined and unfiltered.

Production: 900 cases | ABV: 13.13% | TA: 6.69 g/L | pH: 3.45 | VA: 0.80 g/L | DCO2: 667ppm | Total SO2: 54ppm | RS: 0.98 g/L | Turbidity at bottling: 10 NTU

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Produced + Bottled by Las Jaras Wines in Sonoma, CA

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