Two Shepherds Bechthold Vineyard Cinsault 2022 Friulano Barbera adds bright acidity and

Barbera adds bright acidity and red-cherry lift

this wine is distinctly Roero in style

credited either to the five hills that ring the village or

so it belongs with food rather than in front of it

Two Shepherds Bechthold Vineyard Cinsault 2022 Friulano Barbera adds bright acidity andThe Land Lodi has a reputation for big, warm climate Zinfandel, which makes the most historically important vineyard in the appellation a strange fit. Bechthold Vineyard was planted in 1886 and is the oldest surviving Cinsault planting anywhere in the world. The vines are head trained, dry farmed, and still on their own roots after nearly 140 years, sitting on deep sandy soils in the Mokelumne River sub appellation. Sand is the reason they survived: