The Zinfadel is produced with fruit located in the Dry Creek Valley appellation where the combination of the climate and the wonderful terroir provides excellent Zinfandel grapes with an intensely concentrated taste. Half of the grapes are pressed whole and the must is fermented in open-top fermenters for maximum color extraction and flavour. After that, the wine is allowed to stay in a combination of French and American oak, which, as Coppola describes it, "gives the wine real shoulders"
