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Wine Definition
- Vintage2002
- TypeRed
- ProducerSt. Francis
- VarietyZinfandel
- DesignationOld Vines
- VineyardPagani Vineyard
- CountryUSA
- RegionCalifornia
- SubRegionSonoma County
- AppellationSonoma Valley
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8/29/2012 - ArizonaWineGuy wrote: 88 Points
Good fruit. Much better than I was expecting of this particular wine, but what I've come to expect of this vineyard.
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11/3/2010 - ArizonaWineGuy wrote: 84 Points
Used for making pasta sauce today. While not offensive, lacks the character I've come to expect from Pagani Ranch. I guess Zinfandel simply is not this wine maker's forte.
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11/3/2010 - ArizonaWineGuy wrote: 85 Points
Using it today to make pasta sauce, which it is perfectly adequate for. However, Zin is obviously not this wine maker's forte.
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2/24/2008 - ArizonaWineGuy wrote: 88 Points
Deep garnet/red color, starting to show a little bit of age around the edges. On first opening, the nose was overpowered by the alcohol, but that quickly changed with just a little bit of aeration. Lots of dark fruits in the nose - plums, cherries, and dare I say zinfandel fruit! IN the mouth, plums, CHERRIES, black berries, maybe even a hint of lingon berries going on here. Very deep and concentrated fruit. There's a hint of pepper and spice, but not as much as one might expect from a zin this big. And while the alcohol is definitely there, there's nothing hot about it this time round. This wine is really very jammy, and drinking very nice right now. (I just now read my previous notes on this wine. WOW is all that I can say, as this wine has made a huge turn around in the last several months. The question is whether to drink it all up right now while it is good, or see what happens. "Tis the fun of wine!).
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9/1/2007 - ArizonaWineGuy wrote: 78 Points
After reading my note from April of this year, I have to say this wine is going in the WRONG direction. I need to back up for a moment by giving a little history on my experience with Pagani Ranch zins. The very first wine I had from this vineyard was from the now defunct Lytton Springs Winery. They made this wildly HUGE zin with great big jammy fruit that just exploded from the bottle as soon as you pulled the cork! There were those that thought the wine was just way too overstated, but I gotta tell you this was a wine to knock you socks off and leave you with an impression for the reat of your life.
Okay, now on to this beast from St. Francis - artichokes and Zinfandel do not belong in the same bottle. What were these people thinking? This wine is incredibly awkward, disjointed at best. It is as if the green from the bottle somehow precipitated into the wine itself. The tannins are harsh and not in the least bit integrated (nothing velvety gong on here, more like 60 grit sand paper). The fruit, if you can call it that, expresses VERY green plums, unripe cherries, and maybe even a rotten apricot. This wine is awkward in the nose, awkward in the mouth, and should be poured down the drain. It is a crime that someone thought fit to bottle this concoction, and an even bigger crime to claim it came from the Pagani Ranch vineyard - ther is simply no way!
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