Community Tasting Notes 94

• sma Likes this wine: 92 points

  October 31, 2021 - Dense and deeply colored with intense nose. Earth. leather, red and black raspberry, savory herbs. The fruit appears to have receded and the complexity increased. Long lingering finish. Smooth with mature tannins. Really lovely mature wine that was well balanced and enjoyable.

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• skinut Likes this wine: 91 points

  January 19, 2020 - Showing its age, but not in a bad way - just slightly less bright fruit flavors. Definitely a more complex wine than I expected. Lingering, intriguing finish.

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• andyrowe wrote:

  September 22, 2019 - Not rating, past drink date and it showed - first taste a zinger wonder then quickly fell off. My fault for losing track of these. Will update with another bottle soon.

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• Matt Scott Likes this wine: 94 points

  July 27, 2019 - Peppery, with plums, leather, red fruit, loam and cardamon. Becoming more secondary, this still has a lovely freshness and life ahead. There’s a striking acidity and a flowing, long finish. I see no reason to wait. Has there ever been a lesser Papera bottling from Carlisle? Not at all. Drink now - 2022.

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• michigan dogs Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 27, 2019 - Drank with the 13 and 16 vintages. My last bottle, sad. Surprisingly this held it's own against two great wines. See my review of the 16 vintage for details.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2008
• Type Red
• Producer Carlisle
• Varietal Zinfandel
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Papera Ranch
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Russian River Valley

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• Pending Delivery 5 (1%)
• In Cellars 229 (25%)
• Consumed 697 (75%)

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