2008 Hartford / Hartford Court Zinfandel Highwire Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  5/19/2020 - Ellenkf wrote: 88 Points

  Restrained and elegant Bordeaux-like aromas suggests a concentration of ripe and baked black fruits, some underlying sugared mint. The palate is concentrated, unctuous, slightly savory. the alcohol is out of balance at this point - it was probably better supported in its youth, but this is no longer a fruit basket that Zin promises.

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  2/28/2016 - Jmac56 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Nice balance of fruit and tannin.

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  4/27/2015 - Jmac56 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Great wine with lush fruit and cherry- I would have rated it higher but it does not taste like a classic zinfandel.

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  4/13/2015 - MystMrQ Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Sigh. Drink now as this wine is slightly past its prime. While still possessing fairly intense core zin fruit flavors of blackberry/dark cherry, the spicy pepper zing that makes Hartford's Highwire zin my favorite in their portfolio is long gone. This remains a good zin but drink now- additional aging will not improve this wine.

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  3/30/2015 - MichielV wrote: 89 Points

  w sausage fm bbq. Yummy upon opening (3 hour decant because i wasworried about tannins). Very good wine but petered out, not what i remembered. Solid zin though!!! These guys know how to maintain the character of zin.

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