Martinelli Winery is located in California’s Russian River Valley and is a family business that has been growing grapes since the 1880s.All in the Family at Martinelli Winery John Mariani, Huffington Post, 06/22/2015 It is one of the oldest surviving vineyards in Sonoma County.
History Giuseppe Martinelli and Luisa Vellutini emigrated from Friuli, Italy to California and first planting Zinfandel and Muscat Alexandria vines.
Viticulture Martinelli Winery uses natural native yeasts in fermentation, and the wines are unfiltered and unfined. Most of the Martinelli grapes are sold to others, and only a small portion go into their own wines.Juiced About Martinelli: Wine Editor Lettie Teague admires Martinelli's Sonoma bottlings, but she's even more enamored of the unfairly perfect family behind them Lettie Teague, November 1, 2003
Some Zinfandel wine produced has over 15% ABV.
Criticism A 2009 single-vineyard Martinelli Road was rated 94 points by Wine Spectator.One of Sonoma's Oldest Zin Vineyards Gets a New Lease on Life: Arista Winery's McWilliams family buys Russian River's Martinelli Road vineyard Wine Spectator, April 9, 2012
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