Community Tasting Note

Mossrose wrote:

Tuesday, February 14, 2017 - The 2014 Terraces Zin is a classic success for this winery, important as much for what it is not as what it is. Positively, it features great purity of fruit squarely on the black side, including blackberry, black cherry, and black currant, a complex pepper taste, and strong drinkability upon release. Negatively, as a matter of policy, it refuses a host of features that many Zins seek and welcome, including late harvesting, low acidity, low tannin, high alcohol, raisined grapes, and residual sugar. The net result is that the Terraces shares the structure and balance of California wines made from Bordeaux grapes as well as the distinctiveness of Zinfandel. One extraordinary difference from the strong majority of Zins, however, is that the Terraces is capable of aging magnificently, as evidenced by the 1998 vintage, where that Terraces not only drank well throughout its youth, but reached its peak of quality after 15 years.

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