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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.3 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 6 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Akatz821 on 8/14/2023: DOA unfortunately. Oh well! (270 views) | | | Tasted by Vinophiler on 1/29/2011: Fill was good and cork was in good shape but clearly over the hill. Shame because there were rements of a once enjoyable wine still detectable within the chaos of this drain-worthy brew. I suspect the '96 Duarte has met the same unavoidable fate... will know shortly. (2093 views) | | | Tasted by mike l. on 3/19/2007 & rated 82 points: jalapenos! vegetal onions, hardly any fruit (which is true of all the wines), some really fake raisiny tastes. pretty hard to tolerate. (2679 views) | | | Tasted by G SQUARED on 4/29/2006 & rated 92 points: Cellar Party for Bayfront Medical Center Foundation. OK, so what's this thing about Zins not ageing? Are you kidding me? Just try a Tulrey or a Martinelli from a good vintage and you are in for a wonderful surprise. These wines, for me, actually get better with age. No more of that knock you in your face alcohol, no more of that pin you to the ground sappy, over the top fruit, just a perfect marraige of fruit and alcohol that has become balanced with age.
Lovely! (3289 views) | | | Tasted by buckeye76 on 8/8/2003 & rated 93 points: PLUMS IN THE NOSE WITH RICH FRUIT IN THE FLAVOR WHICH EXPLODED IN THE MOUTH WITH CHOCOLATE, PLUMS, AND CHERRIES. LONG FINISH. SECOND TASTING ALSO SHOWED LICORICE AND LEATHER. (904 views) |
| Turley Producer websiteZinfandel ZAP: Zinfandel Advocates & Producers | Varietal character (Appellation America) | Wikipedia-ZinfandelGrist VineyardOriginally settled by an Italian family in the late 1800s, Grist Vineyard is now owned by Sonoma County’s Hambrecht family. This Dry Creek Valley property is on the northwestern slope of Bradford Mountain at an elevation of 1,000 feet. The volcanic, red soils — Boomer loam and Stonyford loam — are reminiscent of Tuscany’s terra rosa. We source Zinfandel fruit from 30 of the 51 total acres, which were planted in 1974. Though there is some debate, the Zinfandel vines are thought to be from the “mother” blocks planted in 1900, the Hambrecht/Mead Atlas Peak clones.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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountyDry Creek Valley Winegrowers of Dry Creek Valley | Dry Creek Valley Association | Appellation America | San Francisco Chronicle Article |
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