Fres-co Primitivo 2020
Product details
| Management number | 253563322 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$13.20 | Model Number | 253563322 | ||
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Fres.co Primitivo is 100% Primitivo, the Italian clone of Zinfandel, sourced from Benguerel Family Vineyard in Kenwood, Sonoma Valley. The vines are own-rooted, dry-farmed, and grown on Los Robles series gravelly clay loam. Farmer Ross Cannard, son of Bob Cannard who grew produce for Chez Panisse, manages the vineyard without synthetic sprays or herbicides.
Winemaker Jack Sporer ferments with native ambient yeast, uses no fining agents or filtration, and adds only a small dose of sulfur dioxide at bottling. The wine is made at Magnolia Wine Services, the cooperative custom crush facility in Sonoma that Sporer owns and operates.
The wine shows red cherry, raspberry, blackberry, and black plum, with medium tannins and bright acidity. It reads as a restrained, food-friendly red rather than a high-extract, high-alcohol California Zinfandel. Sporer credits the farming and the dry-farmed, no-spray viticulture at Benguerel for the wine's clarity and freshness.
Fres.co highlights the grower's name on the back label of every bottle as a direct acknowledgment that the wine originates in the vineyard. The Primitivo is described by Sporer as his flagship wine and the expression that best reflects his sourcing and farming goals in Sonoma Valley.
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