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• Vegas Bob wrote: 93 points

  December 19, 2010 - Wonderful Zinfandel

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• rjhilgers@gmail.com wrote: 82 points

  April 19, 2010 - Another Costco find with the Cameron Hughes Lot 86 Lodi Zinfandel 2006. Picked this one up for $10 at my local store in San Francisco.
  
  What Cameron Hughes says about the wine: Dark, brick red wine with super spicy, huge nose of plums, blackberry, and black pepper. On the palate this wine is a basket of plummy red fruits, a little pomegranate, vanilla oak notes, pepper, and chocolate covered raisins. As this powerfully structured zinfandel opens up it gains additional complexity with tobacco and sweet cigar smoke notes. Despite two years in barrel, this zin is just a baby and will continue to improve in the bottle for many years to come.
  
  Day 1 - On the nose, I'm getting a ton of plum, good ripe plum, with some cracked pepper and a little heat from the alcohol. Definitely a respectable nose for a $10 wine and a promising hint at the taste. But, once this hit my mouth, I had two words for this wine - fruit bomb! I cannot seem to get the plum to move out of the way and let some other elements come through. And, this isn't a delicate plum, this is a dark brooding plum that fell off the tree weeks ago and is trying it's damnedest to break down and get back into the earth. There is some bright berry - maybe cherry or raspberry - but it really is having a hard time holding it's own. Pretty good mid-palate, with a long finish, but the emo-plum sticks with me much longer than I would like. I don't see this one getting any better with age or with decanting, either, as the tannins are relatively mild and it feels like the fruit will just continue to get darker and heavier.
  
  In its defense, the first couple tastes I had were with a juicy hamburger and it fared pretty well. The salt and grease of the burger elevated the other fruit and subdued the plum nicely. So, maybe this is a wine that needs some good grease with it.
  
  Day 2 - not much to add, except that somehow the plum got even darker and more brooding, like it spent the night out with some old friends listening to Joy Division, smoking unfiltered cigarettes and reciting poetry at a half-empty spoken word open mike night. Definitely not the way I want to spend my night...

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• JC Old School wrote: 90 points

  October 11, 2009 - Very lush on the palate!

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• wordstar wrote: 86 points

  August 23, 2009 - Nice enough wine, but not noteworthy as a Zin. Better values are around.

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• neurovino wrote: 87 points

  February 6, 2009 - A little too lush. Would like to see more structure.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Cameron Hughes
• Varietal Zinfandel
• Designation Lot 86
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Central Valley
• Appellation Lodi
• UPC Code 858517000866

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• In Cellars 62 (23%)
• Consumed 208 (77%)

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