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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.2 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 318 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Zinlady on 2/25/2024 & rated 90 points: Lighter im body and color went well with cheese (1137 views) | | | Tasted by thelostverse on 2/24/2024 & rated 91 points: Expressive nose of red fruits and kirsch. Palate follows. Excellent acidity and balance. (999 views) | | | Tasted by ChateauShiny on 12/16/2023 & rated 92 points: Purchased a 6-pack of this via WineBid. Decanted about 2ish hours and it is interesting to revisit.
Nose of black pepper, savory herbs, blackberry, blueberry, violets, and a bit of lavender. Dense, still very fresh, high acidity, lots of structure, and chewy. Palate of blackberries/blueberries, with a lighter bramble/strawberry supporting the dark fruits, herbs de provance, iron, and dark minerals. Tannins attack sharply and then become chewy. Bringing in a bit of a wood dust along with black tea. Long tannic finish with wood, herbs, graphite, saline, and a bit of citrus peel. Decent amount of alcohol warmth remains after the finish fades.
Totally different wine than the bottle I had 2 years ago. It's almost too dense for me. We are going to revisit tomorrow and see if it lets up any.
Day 2 was very different and forgot to take notes: Veered more red, fresh, but lost a lot of density. Was not as interesting. (1669 views) | | | Tasted by michigan dogs on 12/12/2023 & rated 92 points: I was surprised that I still had this bottle
in my cellar. It was great, not complex but good acidity and fruit. Dennis and I both enjoyed the bottle and his wife called wanting to buy him a bottle for Christmas since he enjoyed it so much, just a great value. Clearly,no more in my cellar! (1771 views) | | | Tasted by tomlee on 12/8/2023 & rated 90 points: Crimson in color. 14.4% ABV. Intriguing nose of red and black fruits, leather and white pepper. Medium body with ample acidity. Packed with rustic, earthy fruits. Blackberry, cranberry, blood orange and pepper on the palate. Nice length on the finish. Well made Claret style Zinfandel. As always the value here is unparalleled. Best over the next several years. (1755 views) | | | Tasted by MunkiMunks on 12/4/2023: This was fantastic. Great QPR - has a nice finesse and not a fruit bomb. (1777 views) | | | Tasted by joet626 on 9/9/2023 & rated 91 points: very good. Nice and fruity. Dark berries. Nice finish (2157 views) | | | Tasted by Max S. on 8/20/2023 & rated 91 points: Drinking well now. More peppery than last time, the fruit is in balance with the more savory aspects and it's mellowed out a bit. I don't see a reason to keep it longer, but it will definitely live for a few years at least. (2004 views) | | | Tasted by Z1nnfull on 7/7/2023 & rated 91 points: Just entering drinking window now. While not as robust as some fruit and/or alcohol bomb Zins, this is a varietally perfect expression of the fruit, although hardly timid, it’s complexity and finish really makes this an exceptional offering. Enough acidity to make this quite food-friendly (2108 views) | | | Tasted by sdahar on 6/18/2023 & rated 91 points: This bottle was totally different from previous bottles. Well rounded with no unpleasant acidity per previous reports. (2048 views) | | | Tasted by rieslinghoarder on 5/19/2023 & rated 93 points: Glassware: Zalto Universal
Prep: Pop n’ pour
I love checking in on the OVZs about 5 years out from harvest, but was a little hesitant to open this given the structure of the vintage. Did not disappoint at all and didn’t need a decant. Wonderful aromas and flavors of ripe black currant, blackberry, dried blueberry, and raspberry layered on a core of iron and graphite minerality. Lush on the palate, but not in an overly ripe/juicy manner, bolstered by fresh acidity and fine-grained tannins.
As much as I love the SVDs, the OVZ remains a stupid good value and develops so well in the cellar. Wish I bought cases of this. (2532 views) | | | Tasted by rama on 2/25/2023: Nothing like the bottle I had a few months ago. This one was fine as a pop and pour. I would chalk it up to the closure, but its a DIAM10. No idea why there would be such extreme bottle variation under such a closure. (2719 views) | | | Tasted by carlsport on 1/15/2023 & rated 92 points: Drinking really well right now with a 20 minute in-glass decant. Fantastic QPR! (2858 views) | | | Tasted by rama on 12/23/2022: Fecal nose as a PnP. I suspect it will blow off, but was expecting a 4 year old zin to be accessible without heavy aeration or waiting. Quite sweet, good brightness, ferrous. If tasted double blind I would call this a funky syrah or a bojo. Will update if it changes with air.
Update: 1 hour in the funk has dissipated, though its still lacking zinfandel typicity. Meh. (2571 views) | | | Tasted by azwino on 10/25/2022: PnP and drank over two nights. No formal notes, but needed some time and air in my glass before it got enjoyable. Second day was great from the pour. Classic zin profile, with a fair amount of acidity and mellows out over time. (3094 views) | | | Tasted by ohne_musik on 10/25/2022 & rated 91 points: Almost 2 years since my last note, and this is still a beast of a wine. Dialed up to 11 in terms of fruit, acidity, and structure. Disjointed at first, and still a bit painful to drink, although it starts to settle after 3 hours in glass. Certainly complex and a bounty of flowers, plums, bramble, and a fair amount of dusty road. Lacks a bit of amplitude in the mid-palate, but the inner mouth aromatics are off the charts and there’s a sense that this will flesh out once the structure starts to soften. A whisper of sweet oak at the end. Probably better in 5 years, and maybe a magnificent wine in 20. (3132 views) | | | Tasted by DB Lawton on 10/9/2022 & rated 90 points: Drank at Haycraft wedding. Great color, body, and finish. (2762 views) | | | Tasted by Kcornett on 9/25/2022 & rated 90 points: Great after waiting for 15 min. Decent acidity. High alcohol level. Black cherry. (2624 views) | | | Tasted by VinCA on 8/26/2022: Rich, deep color, black and blue fruits, medium tannins, med-long finish. Well balanced, well made from good fruit. (2861 views) | | | Tasted by sdahar on 8/1/2022 & rated 88 points: a little hot with limited fruit. Probably sat on this a little to long. (3107 views) | | | Tasted by rhyman on 7/30/2022 & rated 88 points: I know, I am lower score than most of you guys. This is one of my favorite wineries and they always produce zins that we love. This zin seems to lack the punch we like in the wine. It is an earthy, black fruit, medium weight zin. Nothing wrong with this, it just seems so different from many of their other vintages. So I have several left and will try again in a year or so. (3005 views) | | | Tasted by Everything Ahead on 7/30/2022 & rated 90 points: Very nice CA Zin, with balanced oak, spice, blackberries, alcohol and acid in good balance. It is refreshing to have such a drinkable Zin that is not overly oaked. I prefer this producer over Ridge these days due to the latter's excessive use of new American oak. (2986 views) | | | Tasted by PSUSteve on 7/23/2022 & rated 92 points: Bright lively fruit with very nice finish on PnP (3010 views) | | | Tasted by t_moderne on 7/2/2022 & rated 90 points: Pop and pour. Tasted on a sail boat and then again at home.
Saved half in a 375ml bottle, refrigerated and under vacuvin.
Dark purple color.
Grape and dark berries on the nose.
Good fruit wine with lots of appeal. Sufficient acidity and character to counter the fresh and sweet berry fruit.
Retained that fresh dark berry fruit in the saved half bottle. (2953 views) | | | Tasted by comlaw on 6/24/2022 & rated 91 points: Decanted 30 minutes. Nice mix of dark and red fruit with white pepper. Medium body with moderate tannin and acidity. Paired well w/tuna au poivre. Excellent QPR. (2885 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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| Bedrock Wine Co. Producer website2018 Bedrock Wine Co. Old Vine ZinfandelFrom release letter:
2018 was a brilliant year for Zinfandel across California, and this wine reflects it. I have said it before, but it bears repeating—though this is one of the least expensive wines we make, in many ways it is the most important. First, it is the one Bedrock wine that trickles out to most markets, so if someone gets introduced to our wines, there is a good chance it is through this one. As such, it has to be reflective of the vibrant, fruit-filled yet fresh style we look for while crafting California’s great variety. Second, this is the wine that allows us to rehab old vineyards by giving us a place to put the fruit while we upgrade farming, pruning and soil health; at an average of 80 years of age, these lovely old vines appreciate the attention. The 2018 is a blend of 85% Zinfandel filled out with Mataro, Grenache, Alicante Bouschet, Carignan, Petite Sirah and scant amounts of the many other varieties that can be found in California’s older, multifarious vineyards. Many of our most venerable vineyards contribute to this wine, including Bedrock, Teldeschi, Esola, Pagani, Papera, Evangelho and Pato filled in with lots from other old vineyards throughout the state. This will provide great drinking pleasure with a decant early on, but as with most iterations of this bottling, it will develop nicely for a number of years.Zinfandel ZAP: Zinfandel Advocates & Producers | Varietal character (Appellation America) | Wikipedia-ZinfandelUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson CaliforniaNapa Valley.http://www.stagecoachvineyard.com/vineyards/our_vineyards.php
Santa Ynez.http://www.everyvine.com/org/Camp_Four/vineyard/Camp_Four/ |
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