Community Tasting Note

Senso-beak wrote:

Sunday, December 25, 2011 - PnP, post Christmas wine. Highly glyceric, dark red to purple in the glass. Heady, full bodied, ultra thick and boozy jam bomb at 15.9%. Lots of heat, tar, oak, melted raisins, pruny-date compote, black bramble berry with confected boysenberry notes. I agree with other notes that I wish this was dialed back a percent or two on the ABV. This was made in the heyday of the ultra ripe over extracted zins. While showing a lot of dark fruits and good raw material, the heat and alcohol tend to detract somewhat from the experience. Lots of fruit with some secondary notes showing, it's the elements of heat holding this back. All the stuffing is there, good structure, balance and very long finish.

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