Community Tasting Note
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tvinoronquillo wrote:
September 11, 2011 - This is multi vintage blend of Zinfandel from Sonoma Valley fruit from 2004, 2005, and 2006. Like all Coturri wines, they are made only with naturally occurring yeast, no chemicals or preservatives and the wines are bottled unfiltered and unfined. Medium + garnet color with bricking towards the rim and long thick legs. The nose has medium + intensity and developed aromas of baked black fruit like plum, red cherry, and blackberry, with other notes of nail varnish remover and sweet spice. The palate is off dry, low acidity, high alcohol (16.5% abv), coarse ripe medium tannins, full bodied, pronounced flavor intensity of unctuous dried red and black fruit with cooked and baked flavors. This was a tough wine to drink and it was just so out of balance, big jammy stewed fruit and very high alcohol without much acidity or finesse mixed with the residual sugar. My wife though it was a fortified wine and could not even drink it and I got a headache after two glasses. I hope this was a just a bad bottle or an off bottling. I'm gonna see what else Coturri has to offer. Only 216 cases bottled. $24 US retail.
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