2007 Carlisle Zinfandel Sonoma County

Community Tasting Notes (144) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  5/10/2020 - SineQuaNon Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Wow! This is just outrageously good - especially given the designate and price back in the day. Totally fresh and giving from the getgo but still improved with a bit of breathing. Probably at peak but rather on the young side still, than the old. I wonder if the screwcap closure has anything to do with this? I agree completely with the notes below. Rated 91.48 (credit: Dan Kravitz (spelling?)) and thus much closer to 92 than 90

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  5/7/2020 - rldixon Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Consumed in a series of Carlisle Zins:
  
  1. 2008 Lingenfelder
  2. 2008 Sonoma County
  3. 2007 Sonoma County
  
  I'm drinking my "last bottles" and this one is was delicious, seemingly at its peak. The constant I've found in Carlisle wines is balance: there's never *too much* of anything, and this wine is a good example of that.
  
  Consumed over two nights. On night one, noted much less aroma than the 2008 on unscrewing the cap, but the tastes were prominently, but not overwhelmingly, cherries and pepper and soil, what I love about Zins. Silky tannins. On night two, there was just a bit more of everything from night one, particularly the earthiness, so much so that I was a bit wistful this was my last bottle of this one.

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  4/21/2018 - Ed B wrote: 92 Points

  PnP at a restaurant. No detailed notes. Smooth, rich, drinking well. Plenty of time left, but alas my last bottle. This was the screw top of the set. (I *screwed* up and drank the cork bottle by itself a few years ago.) This could be the greatest QPR wine EVER.

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  1/5/2017 - ParisWino Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Drank approximately one month ago and won't attempt to reconstruct a detailed tasting note here, but simply note that we simultaneously opened one screwcapped bottle and another bottled under cork, which had been well stored under identical conditions together. The difference was not huge, but the screw-capped bottle did taste modestly fresher (enough to tell them apart blind). The wine was consistent with the house style for SC zins (to the extent it exists) and beginning a gentle course downhill, but still quite pleasurable.

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  9/17/2016 - JBD wrote:

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