2022 Overshine Zinfandel Maple Vineyard Dry Creek Valley 750 ml

There’s a block of Zinfandel vines on the high benchland of Dry Creek Valley that was planted in 1910. Those vines were in the ground before the First World War, before Prohibition, before anyone had a word for “old vine.” They have been dry-farmed every year since, pushing their roots deep into sandy-loam soils that drain fast and stress the plant just enough to produce something small, concentrated, and worth paying attention to.

This is Maple Vineyard, and it’s the source of Overshine’s 2022 Zinfandel.

Overshine Wine Co. is a Healdsburg-based venture launched in 2024 by David Drummond—a Sonoma County grower and California native—and Sam Bilbro, who serves as managing partner and winemaker. Bilbro is a fourth-generation Sonoma County winemaker, the latest in a family line that stretches back to a great-grandfather who came over from Tuscany and immediately started making wine. His father, Chris Bilbro, founded Marietta Cellars in Geyserville and spent four decades making bold, unpretentious red wines for everyday drinking. The instinct for it runs deep.

For Overshine’s classic California wines, Bilbro farms organically and regeneratively, ferments with native yeasts, uses little to no new oak, and keeps sulfur use to a minimum. The aim isn’t minimalism for its own sake—it’s a commitment to letting a vineyard like Maple speak without a lot of winemaking noise getting in the way.

Dry Creek Valley earns its reputation with Zinfandel the old-fashioned way: through its soils, its climate, and its farming traditions. The benchland sits above the valley floor, where the sandy-loam soils drain quickly and the vines work for their water. Days are warm and bright; nights cool down sharply, driven by Pacific air funneling in through the Petaluma Gap. That diurnal swing is what keeps Dry Creek Zinfandel honest—fruit-forward without being heavy, spiced without being hot.

Plush, bramble-forward, and built to last.

We’ve long believed that Bilbro’s Sonoma County connections give Overshine its pick of exceptional vineyard sites. Maple is a strong argument in favor of that theory.