4/25/2023 - 3daywinereview.com wrote:

Day 1: What an interesting wine. Gravel, funk, blue currants, spices, menthol, floral and stone. Super complex wine and tasty. While young still drinkable. After selling out the 15 with my reviews I better get a six pack of these. 93 points

11/10/2023 - 3daywinereview.com wrote:

Day 1: Going to order a case of this wine. Enough said.
Day 2: Gorgeous wine featuring black pepper, black olives, dust, floral, dark fruits and spices. Medium to long finish. Just amazing stuff. 93+ points
Day 3: This is why I do the 3 day wine review and love the doubters that say the wine is not fresh on day 3. Sure for cheap wines you are right but those wines are worth drinking anyway. This is wine of the year candidate and possibly the best of the Unnamed Series Syrah wines. Super complex featuring black olives, mild smoke, tar, black pepper, dark berries, earth, leather and exotic spices. For under $25.00 not many I have ever tasted at this level and that is over 25 years of great closeout deals thrown in there. 95+ points
Recommendation: Buy a case and thank 3 Day Wine Review Later.

4/7/2023 - 3daywinereview.com wrote:

Unlike buying enough of the Davenport wines for myself I am stocking up on this wine for long term and short term enjoyment. Amazing on day 2 and needed that to open.
Green olives, black pepper, dark fruits, soy, stone and floral notes. The complexity of this wine for the money as many times stated is off the charts. Amazing effort and the best wine I have tasted at $25 or under in my wine career. 95 points

3/3/2023 - 3daywinereview.com wrote:

Day 1: Very nice and great value. Blue fruits, iron, black olives, tar, white pepper, spices and floral notes. Expressive wine and certainly delivers in all areas and for the money not much better. 93 points
Day 2: Very similar to day 1 result. Nice fruit combined with that classic black olive, iron, pepper and floral notes. Medium plus finish. Excellent. 93 points
Recommendation: These are still available at the winery. That is truly amazing they have not sold out of the 17.

10/4/2020 - klezman wrote:

Wow...Clark is a genius to be able to turn failed wines into this! Excellent on night 2 as well. It has notes of just about everything - some vegetal hints, lots of juicy fruit, moderate tannin, herbs, baking spices, darker fruit, and more.

8/18/2020 - WineAttic Does not like this wine:

This is such a disappointment. I love Turley (typically) but this is just not great. The nose is somewhere between burning fiberglass and dead fish--not literally, but it is repulsive. That's the worst part. It finishes like a Zinfandel that was left open for a week. It's just not great. Luckily, I only have 6 more bottles of this and it will get used for big events if we ever get to have those again. I'm not even going to cook with this. Why ruin decent food with a bad wine? Maybe it will settle out in a decade or so but mine is going to be long gone by then. Maybe I'll just use this as a gift wine for folks that don't know better.

11/27/2019 - klezman wrote:

This was firing on all cylinders. It's in its teenage years, still showing lots of youthful fruit and density while also showing plenty of secondary notes and interest. A lovely Cabernet.

7/29/2017 - manny651 wrote:

Once again a bad bottle from WineSmith. His wines are great if they make it here in good shape, but sadly 1 out of 2 are bad. I'm done buying these online.

4/27/2017 - RPerro Does not like this wine:

Yuck. Smells and tastes like stewed fruit mixed with soy sauce. Really cloudy, turning brown, definitely way past drinkable. Disappointed this was included in my Wellington "surprise pack" from Woot.com. Should have been drank about 10 years ago. Down the drain...

4/11/2017 - klezman wrote:

Quite a dusty Zin! Lots of brambly fruit to go with the dust. Spice on the nose. Another nice Wellington Zin.

Better on day 2. Similar impressions, but better integration.

12/9/2016 - klezman wrote:

This met expectations. Fruity, balanced, simple, and fun. Like a more Sangio-based version of Duke.

4/7/2016 - cj.haaland Does not like this wine:

I found it to be relatively flat with very little on the nose and no discernable notes. It's possible I may have just had a bad bottle, so I might try it again.

10/19/2015 - rjquillin Likes this wine:

Outstanding QPR. I only wonder how this may have aged under a cork rather than a screw.

10/1/2015 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine:

A perfect wine from Reynvaan, from only their second vintage! Dark garnet and completely opaque. Aromas immediately fill the glass, sweet-smoky dark fruits, toasted oak, quite complex. Viscous on the sides of the glass. Sweet, rich, concentrated flavors of dark cherries, anise, toasty oak keep building for at least 30 seconds, then remain in a very long aftertaste. Parker's (deservedly) former reviewer, in his usual pompous, overly flowery, self-impressed style, was also wrong (typically) about giving this just 92 points. It is far better than that, and will easily last another five years. This is an American version of Guigal's single vineyard Cote-Roties at a fraction of the price.
Ric

7/1/2015 - prof b wrote:

brett

5/29/2015 - fredman wrote:

May actually prefer this to the '12. For $19.00 it's a no brainer.

4/13/2015 - markydecker Likes this wine:

Best darn $20 Zinfandel ever. Medium to full bodied, dense, aroma of dark fruit jumping from the glass. A little hot but not overbearingly so. A GREAT QPR wine for early drinking.

1/31/2013 - SpoochMan Likes this wine:

Bought this at local shop to try. Brought to Good Luck for dinner, popped and decanted. This got better with about an hour of air. Really nice rich dark fruit profile, typical herbaceous character of Bordeaux, good acidity and some tannic structure but well mannered. Overall, this was really nice wine and I will try to see if I can get more. The CT drinking window is over, but I think this easily can have a few good years left. So no big hurry.

11/13/2013 - NickP Likes this wine:

Just received this order today so popped a bottle with dinner (porcini mushroom risotto). Lighter in color and more transparent than most other Turley's, but nice red/garnet color. Fragrant when opened with more of a red fruit/plum note than deeper black fruit. both my wife and I agreed there was some note of mint/menthol/eucalyptus on the nose - not strong but there. I got some chocolate. not a jammy wine to drink but pleasantly fruity, dry and though 15.5% alcohol not hot. not one of our favorites in terms of Turley's but definitely a decent wine. Complemented the risotto nicely. Clearly less 'big' than the 2011 Juvenile we had last night.

8/26/2013 - moxielady wrote:

Either past prime or a bad bottle. Fizz and tart acid. Blech.

8/23/2013 - Daddybush wrote:

Rarely do my wife and I not finish a bottle we open on the same night.. but unfortunately, this one was not worth finishing. tasted flat and almost watered down. super short finish. maybe it will taste better on day 2? worth a shot, I guess.

3/30/2013 - skifree wrote:

Very litltle nose, nice color, hint of cassis, very acidic. Left with acid and alcohol after an hour. Bleah. Tossed remainder.