May 15, 2020 - The wine looks garnet colored. The legs are medium. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like raisin and black pepper. It tastes like cherry and raisin. The body is medium. The wine has silky texture. The wine finishes medium. It paired beautifully with fresh bread and Cowgirl's Red Hawk
May 20, 2017 - Mature and has plenty of flavor. I do not see this improving further. The predominant notes are dry fruits: raisins, figs, dried currants, dried cherries. Some mocha. Not much tannin or bright acidity left.
November 12, 2016 - Corked
August 31, 2016 - Does anyone know where i could buy a bottle of the 2010 Mauritson Zinfandel?
September 26, 2015 - Nice typical fruity Zinfandel but nor overly so. easy drinker
December 24, 2014 - We visited the Mauritson tasting room near Healdsburg this past summer and had a very nice experience there. We brought home a bottle of their Rockpile Syrah however this Dry Creek Zinfandel was purchased at Stirling Wines here in NJ.
Our bottle of the Dry Creek Zin didn't quite live up to some of the other notes provided here. While it had some nice dark berry notes (reminded me of Tazo Brambleberry ice tea), the alcohol was getting in the way of the fruit. As a result, I found this wine to be inconsistent from sip to sip. For me it was ok, but not great.
I should definitely mention that I noticed when I brought this up from the cellar that there was some slight leakage around the cork that had penetrated the foil seal and ran down the side of the bottle. While the wine definitely wasn't corked or oxidized, this certainly could have contributed to some bottle variation. It would be worth picking up another bottle to see if that one fares any better.
November 7, 2014 - Not much I could add to previous opinions, except, so good.
July 23, 2014 - A nice surprise. I don't own any DCV Zin, haven't in years. However, this bottle makes a solid case for what I did like about the region's Zins when I was buying them (regularly, too). Crunchy red and blue fruits, fresh acids, and elegant tannins subtly framing the package. The complexity was there from the first glass, and stayed there all the way through to the final one, some two hours in. Plums, strawberry and vibrant spices. A good, honest value for a lovely Zin @ approximately $25. The label says 15,2% abv, but really, it never came across as anything higher than 14%. Some nice craftsmanship and solid winegrowing here; drink thru 2018. recommended
PnP, served non-blind.
July 23, 2014 - PnP w/45 min decant. Clear, deep purple color, slightly chilled. Wonderful, proper nose/taste. Med/full with nice integration/balance. Fairly big, not overly extracted with a long, clean finish. Ideal drinking window. Nothing off, great value. $22
March 18, 2014 - Good perfume on the black raspberry section of the spectrum, with notes of cedar and some herbal garrigue. Still intense and tight and needs a good 12 -24 hour decant. The weight of this wine is very Rhone-like, with a chambord/kirsch and fruit complexity predominating over licorice and mediterranean hillside herbs, but latter are present. There is a typical Zinfandel bramble kiss on the palate but overall effect is big and rustic as opposed to elegant, towards which it may or may not evolve. 90-91