External search
Google (images)
Wine Advocate
Wine Spectator
Burghound
Wine-Searcher
Vintages
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
1998
N.V.
From this producer
Show all wines
All tasting notes
|
| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Drinking window: Drink between 2014 and 2019 (based on 39 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.2 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 19 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by FoMoCo on 3/4/2023 & rated 93 points: This is drinking extremely well. I think this can be enjoyed for another couple of years - still lively. (237 views) | | | Tasted by Yagil on 1/4/2018 & rated 92 points: 2nd California wines tasting: see my previous TN (1472 views) | | | Tasted by Yagil on 12/3/2017 & rated 93 points: Alan Gertler's California wines tasting (at my home): Coravin tasting
dark translucent red-purple with dark brown rim
excellent intense dark fruits nose with quality spicy notes with dusty-stony hints
medium-bodied, soft tannins, excellent balance & harmony, well structure, fine complexity, rich dark spicy fruity flavours, fine herbs, elegant finish & long aftertaste. ready to drink though can age beautifully 3-7 years more, at least. (1366 views) | | | Tasted by D3S on 1/22/2016 & rated 92 points: Very nice wine, good nose, dark fruit with spice and nice finish. Drinking well now. 92 points (1372 views) | | | Tasted by gromi on 11/27/2015 & rated 91 points: Very enjoyable for Thanksgiving dinner (1740 views) | | | Tasted by macliii on 1/27/2014 & rated 91 points: Great bottle of Zinfandel. Deep purple with flavors of plum and dark fruits. nice spice and very long finish. (2381 views) | | | Tasted by DanielJ on 11/19/2013 & rated 92 points: Nice zin. Peppery and big. Rich flavor. Bright. Delicious. (1903 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 7/17/2013: Black fruited and massive. Well done. Great spice character. (2320 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 2/25/2013: Spicy and sweet black fruit. Very dark. Smells mountainy and oaky too. Smells like someone has been making allot of cab. (1504 views) | | | Tasted by theoz on 2/23/2013 & rated 92 points: Delivers so much more that most zins. Although it has the typical bright fruit you'd find in a zin it is cloaked in smoke, earth, some nice spice and a little leather. (2264 views) |
| Robert Craig Producer website
Visits to Robert Craig Estate -
Harvest Party 2009 -
http://www.mcnees.org/winesite/napa/napa-09/napa-09-craig/napa_harvest_09_craig.htm
Howell Mountain Estate Visit - 2008
http://www.mcnees.org/winesite/napa/napa_08/napa_08_craig.htm
Tribute to Robert Craig -https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2019/09/robert-craig-tribute.html Zinfandel ZAP: Zinfandel Advocates & Producers | Varietal character (Appellation America) | Wikipedia-ZinfandelUSAAmerican 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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Howell Mountain Howell Mountain |
|
