2014 The Terraces Zinfandel

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  9/4/2018 - Zmikly wrote:

  Velvety, thick, spicy

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  6/14/2017 - Bricks Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Had another bottle and thought it had already improved since a few months ago. Is possible it just needed to settle down after shipment but livelier feel in the mouth and had that classic terraces lingering spice that I remembered from earlier vintages.

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  5/7/2017 - mdennison wrote: 92 Points

  Exceptionally smooth wine. Will purchase again.

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  4/26/2017 - Bricks Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Nose a bit closed but it's young so not unexpected. Dark color, possibly more so than the last few vintages. Taste of dark fruits with a bit of a cinnamon spice. Residual taste (aftertaste) always pleasing with this wine, perhaps slightly chalkier/drier but likely to improve as it sits and evolves over next few years. Consistently one of my favorite zins.

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  2/14/2017 - Mossrose wrote: 93 Points

  The 2014 Terraces Zin is a classic success for this winery, important as much for what it is not as what it is. Positively, it features great purity of fruit squarely on the black side, including blackberry, black cherry, and black currant, a complex pepper taste, and strong drinkability upon release. Negatively, as a matter of policy, it refuses a host of features that many Zins seek and welcome, including late harvesting, low acidity, low tannin, high alcohol, raisined grapes, and residual sugar. The net result is that the Terraces shares the structure and balance of California wines made from Bordeaux grapes as well as the distinctiveness of Zinfandel. One extraordinary difference from the strong majority of Zins, however, is that the Terraces is capable of aging magnificently, as evidenced by the 1998 vintage, where that Terraces not only drank well throughout its youth, but reached its peak of quality after 15 years.

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