![]() Note that claims for damaged or broken products must be made within 4 days of delivery. We are therefore offering you the option of purchasing full protection for a fee, at the checkout page. Weight, though, may not be an adequate measure of value, depending on the order. For your protection, every order is automatically insured to a maximum of $3.50 per pound of the scaled weight for breakage, damage or loss, regardless of the order value. Once we have packaged your order in accordance with our normal practices, and have delivered your package to the courier, our liability ends. ZYN takes every reasonable precaution to package your order for safe delivery, and virtually all packages are delivered intact. Please be aware that ZYN will delay shipping if we feel that there is a chance your package may be affected by extreme weather conditions. Shipping during the winter and summer months is inherently risky. We primarily use a specialized courier that uses temperature-controlled vehicles. You are solely responsible for ensuring compliance with the applicable laws of the place where you have directed the courier to deliver your order. However, if you request delivery outside of Alberta, you authorize us to engage a shipper on your behalf to pick up your order from our store and deliver it as you instructed. ZYN does not itself ship outside of Alberta. Due to some courier restrictions, we cannot ship to PO boxes. It is preferred that you use a business address for shipping, but we can ship to most residential addresses and some rural addresses. After the first 12 months of ageing the wine was blended and put back into barrels for a further 3 months before bottling.All deliveries within Calgary will be fulfilled and delivered by ZYN, with some exceptions.įor any deliveries outside of Calgary, we will use a courier. Total time in tanks ranged between 21 to 25 days Malolactic fermentation took place in barrels, with 50% new oak. Fermentation occurred spontaneously with wild yeast, with two to three pump-overs a day and délestages when appropriate. Every single lot of the vineyard was vinified separately. After destemming and light crushing, the grapes were transferred to concrete tanks by gravity, without any pumping. The grapes were harvested by hand in 15 kg crates. Just like its elder sibling it juxtaposes power and opulence with discretion and classicism. Massetino’s personality is already self-assured as it shares the same pedigree as Masseto. The birth of the second wine and the opening of the Masseto winery was a seminal moment in Masseto’s history and the consecration of Masseto as an Estate. The Masseto winery, designed by the Italian Architects Zito & Mori, was finished and inaugurated during that same year. The inaugural vintage of Massetino was 2017, released in 2019, precisely 30 years after the first vintage of Masseto. While some parcels had not yet developed enough character to be included in Masseto itself, others showed sufficient promise and personality to warrant consideration, along with other components not utilized in the master-blend, for the creation of a second vin – Massetino. In 2017 some of the wines of some recently replanted Merlot and Cabernet Franc parcels, delimited now by a majestic dry-stone wall, were considered for Masseto. ![]() ![]() Since the birth of Masseto, an extremely strict selection of the grapes has always been carried out in order to guarantee the highest possible quality. ![]() More than 30 years passed since those initial steps. From the very first harvest the unique personality of the wines from this vineyard planted along a vein of Plyocene blue clay were clear for all to see (and taste). Geological studies had suggested that this might be a special site and the battles between the celebrated oenologist André Tchelistcheff and the founder to plant Merlot instead of the safer choice of Cabernet Sauvignon are legendary. ![]() In the early 1980s the first vines were planted on the west facing clay rich soils of the Masseto hillside. ![]()
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