2000 A. Rafanelli Zinfandel

Community Tasting Notes (29) Avg Score: 88.9 points

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  12/3/2023 - enthusiastic_amateur Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Solid core of dark fruits, light tannins, medium+ finish. Very enjoyable with roasted pork . Stood up to much more expensive Napa cabs in blind tasting.

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  11/29/2021 - ManinWines wrote: 72 Points

  A little past it’s prime. Color is a little muddy, and a very slight fruit. Very little zin in this.

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  4/27/2019 - Chomsky wrote:

  This is drinking like a champ. I last drank a bottle of this wine in 2002, so I hardly remember the sensory experience, but amazingly enough there is my note here from then that I can refer to. If this was dark and rich then, now it's dark and rich and mostly resolved, but still with great vigor and surprisingly sharp and spiky acidity. The color is a bit brown, the nose is a bit brown and lightly milky, but the wine has good life and has done the zin-to-claret morph with aplomb. Further, this is the very definition of integrated oak, where the new oak signature is as present as it ever was, only seamlessly integrated within the whole. Just a terrific wine.

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  2/17/2018 - barrytaylor Likes this wine: 92 Points

  deep color. rich & ready

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  3/22/2015 - RDGinSA Likes this wine:

  I was concerned that this 15 year old wine (13 years in my cellar, as I bought it from the winery) would be past its prime; however, that turned out not to be the case. Although the cork crumbled as I was removing it, and I had to pour the wine through a strainer (guess I should have decanted it), the wine was just fine. It has retained its plummy, jammy Zinfandel persona, and its age has smoothed the palette nicely. There was some wine left over the following night, and it was just as nice the second time. It was good to know that I can keep some wines longer than I would have expected.
  I'm not going to assign a numerical rating, because I don't recall what this wine was like when it was younger (this was the last of 6 bottles I had of this vintage), but generally I rate the Rafanelli Zins very highly - at least a 90.

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