2020 Turley Zinfandel Dusi Vineyard
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Ex-Ray Likes this wine:
Friday, April 7, 2023 - For my taste, as great as zinfandel can be! We go back and forth between Dusi and Ueberroth for our favorite zins. There can be bottle variation but this one has it all. The color is dark purple and opaque. Extremely viscous, with very slow "legs". Powerful aromas of predominantly raspberries, with some cherries and blackberries mixed in. Big fruity flavors to match, but remarkably balanced, with tannin and acidity present but well hidden behind the fruit. Some sweetness in the flavors, which carries through to an incredibly long aftertaste. Despite its high alcohol, it does not come through as being too hot. Very drinkable now. Interestingly, I would have rated it 96 the first night but it opened up fully the second night to earn my 100. I plan to drink our five other bottles in the next year.
Ric
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Comment posted by Mark1npt:
4/7/2023 9:18:00 PM - Lol......we've somehow never been able to have a Turley zin (100's of them over the years) last into a 2nd night before!
Comment posted by Ex-Ray:
4/12/2023 1:57:00 PM - Just for chuckles, if you can possibly restrain yourself for one night, try this: open one bottle the first night, drink half, preserve the other half for the second night. Then open a second bottle of exactly the same one the second night and compare. We've often found a definite improvement the next night with Turley zins. (Hint: if you can't tolerate just drinking half the bottle, you can supplement with Bourbon!). Cheers!
Ric
Comment posted by Mark1npt:
4/12/2023 2:57:00 PM - Now, that's an experiment I've never tried!....just how bored in retirement, are you??? Lol...
Comment posted by Mark1npt:
4/12/2023 2:59:00 PM - What do you do to preserve???
Comment posted by Ex-Ray:
4/12/2023 6:34:00 PM - Hilarious! No, retired but never bored, but I love doing various comparisons like that (I'll send my comparative shrimp cocktail cooking experiment, for example!). Usually I use Private Preserve canister of inert gas, which does well for a couple of nights. I actually did this for our couples' wine group in January: opened four bottles of first quality wines (Beaucastel, Cayuse Bionic Frog, Saxum James Berry, Mollydooker Carnival of Love, all 2010 or 2011) three months before the tasting, poured out 4 oz. of each and froze the bottles. The afternoon of the tasting I opened a fresh bottle of each, thawed out the ones from three months earlier, and presented each pair blind, without telling the group what I had done. I just asked them to pick a favorite in each pair. In three of the four pairs, the wine that had been frozen three months earlier was preferred! Try THAT experiment sometime!
Enjoy!
Ric
Comment posted by Mark1npt:
4/12/2023 8:56:00 PM - Ric...you are wack, man! 🤪🤪🤪 Freezing wine??? Omg.....do you have any idea what the wine Gods on here will do to you if they find out?
On a related front.....I have had a coravin for years and find I am almost not using it at all the last 2 years. So disappointed in how wines play out most of the time after 'preserving' it as the cork fails to seal fully and it off gasses over time. Hard to predict but I bet it happens to 50% of my bottles, even with using the thinnest bore 'vintage' needle they make. They know there's a significant issue such as this as they recently came out with a whole new system of theirs, called the Pivot, that replaces the cork with one of their own stoppers and a thick cylinder that pours the wine off much more quickly than any needle they use in their main system. I wouldn't be surprised if the main system fails to exist in 10 more years, but I digress.
I recently found a unique item called 'Repour'. It's a one bottle use rubber stopper with an inert chemical in it that absorbs all the oxygen in the bottle once you put it in. It can be re-used over multiple days if you only pour off a glass a day but it has only enough of the chemical in it to absorb a single bottle full of oxygen, then you toss it. It does not add anything or alter the wine in any way, other than to maybe suck so much air out of the wine, you will hear an audible 'pop' from the vacuum it creates when you pull it off the bottle and you sometimes have to let air get to the wine for an hour before drinking it. I got them on sale at half price which is about $1 ea which I am using more and more and in the long run it's probably cheaper than buying gas cartridges for my coravin.
Comment posted by BShocktaster:
8/28/2023 9:59:00 AM - I froze a bottle of a Dehlinger Pinot by mistake and there was no drop off in quality at all!
Comment posted by Mark1npt:
8/28/2023 11:08:00 AM - Very interesting! Still surprised we haven't heard more flack from others on here about doing that......