1976 Chateau Montelena Zinfandel North Coast

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 90 points

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  10/23/2020 - andtheodor wrote: 91 Points

  Raisiny, chlorine, smoky cherry nose. Spicy, cinnamon, clove, cranberry, fleshy, and rich. Excellent with a variety of hard cheeses.

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  3/28/2015 - europat55 wrote: 89 Points

  This is in surprisingly good shape! Extremely smooth and not over the top!

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  10/3/2013 - stevetimko Likes this wine:

  This is showing well. Still plenty of fruit. It has at least a few more years of life left in it.
  The best part is the nose. Very old world in that it tickles the deepest part of your olfactory senses. Some nice spices. Not loud, very subtle.
  On the palate, velvety smooth. It slides over your tongue from the attack through the midpalate and the finish. The taste is darker fruits and maybe a little bit of blueberry. A good finish.
  This is not a profound wine, but it's very nice. It has aged nicely. Ironically, if you read the winemaker's noite on the web site, they talk about this coming from a drought year. They say the wine is more concentrated with higher sugars and lower acid and recommend drinking it within four years of release. It's almost like they apologize for the elevated 13.2 percent alcohol. But it has aged well.

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