Served warm, showed nice fruit, nice nose, nice taste, waited 15 minutes and new pour was much colder and better, OTOH it is light/medium body, tasty, simple, thirst quencher, retail is $28.
This was a pleasant surprise, nose of grapefruit, hints of sweetness and lovely fruit, medium/big body, tasty, lovely, mouth filling fruit, good complexity, white Bordeaux like, and a long finish. $30 retail and worth a try.
This was my wine of the night, Kathy liked it, nose of black berry, mulberry, and cranberry, big body, mouth filling fruit, tasty, almost very taste, small amount of silky tannins, should peak in another 2 years, long finish and lovely aftertaste, retail $40-OUCH.
Tasted after the Dry Creek Zinfandel which really hurt the score, nose of black berry, lacked the mineral and dry gravel of Rockpile that I love, muted on the palate, big body, almost mouth filling fruit, tasty, unexciting, long finish, $50 retail-no way.
Nose of raspberry, cherry, and hints of forest floor, on the palate, tasty, touch simple, mouth filling, almost elegant, lovely fruit, touch simple, and a medium/long finish, retail $50-OUCH.
3 months of cellar time have helped this wine score a more favorable impression, nose of rich fruit, black cherry, black berry, and allspice, same on the palate, big body, tasty, mouth filling fruit, touch simple, long finish and lovely aftertaste, retail $75-maybe, probably...
After the tasting, a bottle of this was opened and proved very interesting, unexciting, and I usually like Zinfandel, the winemaker must have been bored and tried a radical departure that failed to impress, photo uploaded.
NV JCB Crémant de Bourgogne Brut No 21 87 Points
France, Burgundy, Crémant de Bourgogne
Served warm, showed nice fruit, nice nose, nice taste, waited 15 minutes and new pour was much colder and better, OTOH it is light/medium body, tasty, simple, thirst quencher, retail is $28.
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2019 Frenchie Winery Celebration 89 Points
USA, California, North Coast
This was a pleasant surprise, nose of grapefruit, hints of sweetness and lovely fruit, medium/big body, tasty, lovely, mouth filling fruit, good complexity, white Bordeaux like, and a long finish. $30 retail and worth a try.
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2017 Wattle Creek Zinfandel Dry Creek Valley 92 Points
USA, California, Sonoma County, Dry Creek Valley
This was my wine of the night, Kathy liked it, nose of black berry, mulberry, and cranberry, big body, mouth filling fruit, tasty, almost very taste, small amount of silky tannins, should peak in another 2 years, long finish and lovely aftertaste, retail $40-OUCH.
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2017 Wattle Creek Zinfandel Rockpile 90 Points
USA, California, Sonoma County, Rockpile
Tasted after the Dry Creek Zinfandel which really hurt the score, nose of black berry, lacked the mineral and dry gravel of Rockpile that I love, muted on the palate, big body, almost mouth filling fruit, tasty, unexciting, long finish, $50 retail-no way.
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2017 Raymond Zinfandel Exclusive Selection 89 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
Nose of raspberry, cherry, and hints of forest floor, on the palate, tasty, touch simple, mouth filling, almost elegant, lovely fruit, touch simple, and a medium/long finish, retail $50-OUCH.
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2019 JCB Cabernet Sauvignon Unity 91 Points
USA, California
3 months of cellar time have helped this wine score a more favorable impression, nose of rich fruit, black cherry, black berry, and allspice, same on the palate, big body, tasty, mouth filling fruit, touch simple, long finish and lovely aftertaste, retail $75-maybe, probably...
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2017 Wattle Creek Sparkling Zinfandel 80 Points
USA, California, Sonoma County, Alexander Valley
After the tasting, a bottle of this was opened and proved very interesting, unexciting, and I usually like Zinfandel, the winemaker must have been bored and tried a radical departure that failed to impress, photo uploaded.
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