2008 Novy Family Wines Zinfandel Carlisle Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 89.4 points

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  4/2/2022 - Senso-beak wrote: flawed

  Opened and poured....dark with deep orange to the rim. Sadly corked. Closed. There's some musty dusty blackberry zin on the nose, with corking masking much else. Neutral to bitter on the palate, woody, drying tannin with some fruit paste...dates, boysenberry. Corking may blow off after some air...will update. On day two + under vac-u-vin the corking was still there, but after a few minutes blew off and really fleshed out....fruit is sweeter, with blacks at the fore. Much better than the first day. If you can let the cork blow off, this is drinking fine.

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  4/13/2015 - suburbanfrog Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Great zinfandel. A definite value for a $20 red.

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  2/13/2013 - iamandyc wrote: 87 Points

  Nice Zin. Nothing special. Drank over two days. Improved slightly by second day as body and intensity deepened some.

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  1/17/2011 - lesyeux wrote: 90 Points

  Drank with a deep dish pizza from Paxti's in Noe. From Raj "solid showing from a wine, held it's own against a thick deep dish."

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