St. Amant
St. Amant
AboutSt. Amant
St. Amant is the Spencer family’s California winery, named for Barbara St. Amant Spencer, who bought a ranch with her husband Tim in 1970. Their first harvest came in 1974, followed by a port-style wine in 1981 and a continuing interest in Portuguese and Spanish grapes. After the family moved to Lodi in 1996 and lost its vineyard to phylloxera, Jerry Fry supplied seven tons of old-vine Zinfandel on a handshake, beginning a lasting grower partnership. Mohr-Fry Ranches Zinfandel became its flagship.
The estate vineyards are certified through LODI RULES, with hedgerows, no-till farming and restrained irrigation among their practices. A small team makes and bottles the wines on site, working in small lots with hand-picked fruit and little new oak.
St. Amant 2022 Marian’s Vineyard Reserve Zinfandel
American Red
Bright, acid-driven red fruit appears with soft tea-like tannins and baking spice from used oak. Earthiness and a leaf-to-stem character sit alongside whole-cluster fermentation. The wine is fermented with native yeast and finished without new oak. The vineyard was planted more than a century ago and is farmed by Mohr-Fry Ranches under LODI RULES certification in Lodi, California.
St. Amant 2021 Mohr-Fry Ranch Old Vine Zinfandel
American Red
Red fruit leads the nose, with dried strawberry joined by black coffee, forest floor, black pepper and oak. The palate is full and mouth-coating, carried by integrated acidity and the generous fruit expected from old vines. Cinnamon and clove add sweet spice through the middle, while pepper, oak and red fruit continue into a firm, savoury finish.