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Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 91.3 points

  • Similar to the last bottle, although the bitterness was there but dissipated after a little while. Otherwise this was nicely fruity, lots of earth and spice, shortish finish, and some floral aromas to round it out.

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  • Showing just slight signs of age with some bricking on the edge. This is at its peak and everything has integrated. Fruit is more savory than the typical jammy fruit sometimes associated with older zin. This is lighter, good acid and spices/earthy characteristics. In a great place right now, drink now over next 2-3 years.

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  • A bit too much heat for my liking but otherwise this was drinking rather well. No hint of the VA or other faults that others mentioned. Dark fruits, lots of herbs, bitterness from the alcohol. Plenty of acidity.

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  • Very well balanced with a wonderful upfront fruit and finish. In a real good place right now. After a long decanting, seems a bit Burgundy like.

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  • Yet another older Turley that has gone south for my tastes. Alcoholic, liqueur-like, sweet, stewed juice that doesn’t have the fresh fruit that I imagine it had in its youth. These older Turley wines (and not that old- I am talking 7-10 years) have profile that, for my tastes, is consistently not good. I was listening to an interview which Larry Turley and he is not a fan of waiting on his Zinfandels - he feels that that is not what they are about. Now having enjoyed a bunch between 3 and 10 yeas old, I have to say that I like them young. And to be clear: I love Turley wines. But I am going to drink the rest of the Zinfandels early and without guilt. Followed this one over 3 days and it remained not pretty unpleasant. As the bard says: “What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.”

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    2011 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon: Terroir Matters - Updated (Nov 2013), (See more on Vinous...)

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    2010 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon: An Epic Vintage (Dec 2012), (See more on Vinous...)

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