2012 Turley Zinfandel Cedarman

Community Tasting Notes (84) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  9/28/2020 - ZachF88 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I think this is showing great right now. Good primary fruit (blackberry, bing cherry, cranberry) that is balanced with secondary fruit (plum, stewed blueberry, prune). Also has a bit of leather, barnyard, spice (white peppercorn) and a touch of green herbalness. A tad hot on the finish but definitely doesn’t drink the 15.8% it is. Overall, I don’t think this has much time left. Drink up the next two years unless you like more of the stewed fruit profile. But this was great tonight. Purchased directly from Turley and properly cellared. 92.

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  7/23/2020 - guitarguy wrote: 89 Points

  Working toward plum, it’s time to drink this wine. It still has a nice zinberry component with black pepper and the requisite cedar in the nez. Still, the longer it was open the more that fruit began to prune and my experience with many Turleys is that around 6-8 years that nice primary fruit yields to an uncomfortable oxidized, prune mix that I don’t care for. Drink now. BTW, I’ve never been a big fan of Cedarman since they introduced it 8 or ten years ago.

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  7/4/2020 - Spookey wrote:

  Lacked the fruit and spice that I usually get from past Turley Cedarmans. Off bottle or past prime. Based on recent ct notes, I suspect it's the former.

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  6/24/2020 - mclanew wrote: 92 Points

  Slow oxed for one hour. Nice nose of black fruits, roast meats, herbs and spice. This is quite a big burly concentrated zin which has flavors of black fruits, smoked meats, minerals and spices. I think this can continue to age and develop over the next five years.

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  5/17/2020 - NickP Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Held up well with good fruit balanced tannin and added complexity. A mature wine but fir me was excellent

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