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| Drinking window: Drink between 2021 and 2025 (based on 5 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 86.7 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 77 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Vegas Bob on 12/14/2023 & rated 90 points: Still a solid bottle (801 views) | | | Tasted by Vegas Bob on 11/5/2023 & rated 92 points: #19 of 24...still a great red field blend.
The wine looks rosy colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like strawberry and raspberry. It tastes like raspberry, cranberry and strawberry. The body is medium. The wine has silky texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has low acidity. (999 views) | | | Tasted by Osselaer Cellar on 10/31/2023: Dougherty’s house and Dbacks game (991 views) | | | Tasted by Vegas Bob on 9/26/2023 & rated 89 points: #18 of 24 bottles. Great everyday drinking bottle. Crowd pleaser and a great price at Costco. (1104 views) | | | Tasted by Vegas Bob on 1/23/2023 & rated 89 points: my tenth bottle of this Lodi field blend. I still think it is a fantastic buy at Costco for the price. Very smooth out of the bottle with great color and a medium finish. Always a crowd pleaser. (2844 views) | | | Tasted by Stemzware on 1/18/2023: Good! (2212 views) | | | Tasted by Blueskystk on 11/5/2022: Berry plum aroma well balanced good wine , acidic and then sweet arise with long finish , silky elegant . Will buy again (2545 views) | | | Tasted by Amazonurse on 10/21/2022 & rated 86 points: Costco $11. (2570 views) | | | Tasted by wayne47 on 10/10/2022: For the price, absolutely want more. (2513 views) | | | Tasted by Vegas Bob on 9/22/2022 & rated 88 points: Still a very good wine for everyday use. my 6th bottle of 18. (1395 views) | | | Tasted by R2-D2 on 8/25/2022 & rated 89 points: Nothing wrong with this bottle. Jammy fruits, tobacco, earthy, dried herba, and peppery. Lower acid, rounded tannins, and more full bodied mouthfeel make this a winner for the <$10 price tag. Lots of bottle variation with this blend (1668 views) | | | Tasted by Vegas Bob on 8/22/2022 & rated 90 points: The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle. Nice field blend wine. crowd pleaser (1181 views) | | | Tasted by Czechboy62 on 7/28/2022 & rated 95 points: Full front end with a peppery finish…nice! (1376 views) | | | Tasted by Depetro on 7/24/2022 & rated 89 points: Good wine, would get again. Very fruit forward. I wish they had listed the blend percentages on the label, but the Zin is very prominent (and smoky). The Syrah brought a bit of fruitiness. Not the best wine ever, but a good occasional drink. (1254 views) | | | Tasted by Dean&Libby on 7/7/2022 & rated 87 points: Both the aroma and the initial flavor are fruity and jammy, perhaps a bit overly so. Then there’s a flavor of caramel (or maybe burnt marshmallow) that persists into the finish. It’s has a modest oaky flavor in the finish. A pleasant wine, but not worth the $10.99 I paid at Costco. Wine Enthusiast rated it 92!? If they truly believe that, I’d like them to hook me up with their supplier of semi-licit mind-altering substances. (1314 views) | | | Tasted by Caroltje on 4/17/2022: Easter at Lisa’s. (1750 views) | | | Tasted by ellars on 4/4/2022 & rated 85 points: 85: According to @R2-D2 in a comment to another tasting note, the winery identified the field blend as Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Petit Verdot, and Syrah. I believe the Zin and Syrah, which are very obvious to me, but the Cab Sauv and PV must be what are making the whole thing difficult to classify. Do I like this? Yes and no. It's drinkable. It paired well with smoked sausage, BBQ pork ribs, and Swiss-grilled potatoes. It has enough body to stand up to heavy food but not so much that it cannot be sipped on its own. Nothing is particularly offensive. And yet... There is an almost overwhelming bouquet of caramel; another review described this as "burnt marshmallow" and that's not far off, though to me the thought of s'mores is more pleasant than this. The palate is super-jammy, as I suppose California reds tend to be, but somehow even more so. Tannins are present for structure but not in a smack-you-in-the-mouth kind of way. The Syrah pepperiness comes through more on the finish, which lingers well enough in an inoffensive way. (The wife suggests it would make a fine Red Sangria.) All in all, not bad for the price, but also not something for which I would make a special trip to Costco. (1927 views) | | | Tasted by JohnWino on 3/29/2022 & rated 75 points: Over oaked, Needs more fruit, less wood. May be my personal bias. "We are winemakers, not carpenters". (1687 views) | | | Tasted by ChateauShiny on 3/23/2022: $5.99 at Costco - my expectations are already starting off low and the polarizing reviews of this did pique my interest. Gave it a short decant before writing a tasting note.
Very confusing nose. At first it smelled like an off-dry private label zin while pouring into a decanter. After 15 minutes, I got nothing but plastic. When I sat down to write the TN - toasted marshmallow, green pepper, red cherries, and a bit of blueberry. Palate is a sweet, jammy, medium acidity, and just as confused as the nose. Starts off with the stereotypical sweet Lodi zin cherry/bramble and then tries to veer off to a plummy cab. Light and round tannins. The finish is just sweet and sour cherries and burnt leather/oak. There is a lingering finish of burnt rye toast and plastic that just won't go away.
The finish just makes this wine undrinkable for me, it's extremely unpleasing. I am confused at so many of the 90+ point reviews on this wine here on CT. Not going to bother scoring and I regret pouring this in to a decanter since I now need to clean it. (1687 views) | | | Tasted by candyman on 3/20/2022: improved with air after 45 to 60 minutes (1517 views) | | | Tasted by KenWine12 on 3/8/2022 & rated 87 points: It was good. (1100 views) | | | Tasted by frontenac on 2/16/2022 & rated 92 points: How is it that a cheap red from Cal. Which is a blend containing a grape I dislike,(zin), can give so much pleasure that I have to agree with WE, and give it 92 pts.? Well, I guess I’m not a total wine snob! Enjoy!! Congrats to the winemaking crew! (1421 views) | | | Tasted by wcf1946 on 2/12/2022 & rated 82 points: $6.99 Costco red blend. WE says 92 points. Somebody was smoking something to give that rating, or paid off. Barely drinkable, comparable to most other bad $7 wines out there. There are better choices for just a few dollars more......like Goru Gold @10 from Costco, or Bogle Zin @9. Glad I bought one bottle only. (1343 views) | | | Tasted by djacksonmd@hotmail.com on 2/10/2022 & rated 90 points: Dark fruits on the nose, blackberry and leather on the palate, nice round tannins and a long finish (1258 views) | | | Tasted by SoCalGolfGuy on 2/4/2022 & rated 91 points: This may be a "horses for courses" wine. I like, my wife - not so much. I call it a pot roast red, versus her pizza red. If this was the worst red in my cellar, I would be happy.
I rate reds using the Winespider™ rating system over two-sessions, if possible, before drawing conclusions. First round came in at 91 and the second a 92. I found it drank better after being opened for a bit, I gave it an hour.
I doubt if this going to improve significantly with cellaring, but I think it's got enough guts to be good for several more years.
Being a blend, it seemed like the winemaker may have had to overwork the fruit to get the end-product they have - and that was my biggest knock. (1204 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Hook or Crook Cellars Producer websiteRed Blend.USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Central Valley The Central California Winegrowers (Official site) | Central Valley (California Wine Institute)Lodi Lodi Woodbridge Winegrape Commission | Lodi District Grape Growers Association |
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