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2010 Outpost Zinfandel Howell Mountain
Zinfandel
- USA
- California
- Napa Valley
- Howell Mountain
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Community Tasting Notes 82
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Ed B Likes this wine: 93 points
October 19, 2022 - PnP from a magnum at a dinner party. No detailed notes. Smooth. Rich. Tasty. Drink up.
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J @ y H @ c k Likes this wine: 95 points
June 12, 2021 - Decanted at about 5:15, Dinner at 6:30. Followed until 11 pm. Owned since they released it. This is an astoundingly great wine. It gets ONLY a 95 because my wife and I are rating it against all wines made from all possible grapes. As a zinfandel against other zins, it's a 98.
Dark red fruit and berries, but it is not a jammy sweet fruit. It is more a mature brooding fruit half way between sweet and tart. The real driving force here is Howell Mountain smooth pepper and dessert herbs. There is also a tiny bit of smooth chocolate in the background, but again it is bittersweet chocolate, not sugary milk chocolate, The maturity is beginning to allow tertiary flavors giving it a return to the sweet fruit of madeira, but it's odd because it seems to exist not from oxidation or being over the hill, but from a build up of extra flavor. The color is still impenetrably dark with no evidence of bricking. -
PSUSteve wrote: 88 points
April 11, 2021 - PnP. For me this was in the drink up category. Fruit there but unbalanced with the high alcohol being very present. It did have an interesting coffee mocha finish. If it had been served blind to me after it had 30 minutes of air, I would have guessed port.
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Bobbusch Likes this wine: 90 points
November 29, 2019 - This wine still has some good backbone left. The fruit is still vibrant and evolved nicely over 2 days.
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DCSteve Likes this wine: 95 points
January 8, 2019 - This wine is singing right now. Spectacular.
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By Richard Jennings
2/2/2013 (link) 91 points(Outpost Zinfandel Howell Mountain) Medium red violet color; appealing, wild berry, dried berry, ripe black fruit, vanilla nose; tight, ripe black fruit, tart berry, vanilla palate; needs 2 years; medium-plus finish
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By Richard Jennings
1/28/2012 (link) 92 points(Outpost Zinfandel Howell Mountain) Barrel sample - appealing, lifted, berry compote, stewed berries nose; tasty, rich but poised, baked berries, baked black fruit, baking spice palate; medium-plus finish 92+ points
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2010
- Type Red
- Producer Outpost
- Varietal Zinfandel
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion Napa Valley
- Appellation Howell Mountain
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 8 (1%)
- In Cellars 334 (27%)
- Consumed 903 (73%)
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- ProducerOutpost
- VarietyZinfandel
- CountryUSA
- RegionCalifornia
- SubRegionNapa Valley
- AppellationHowell Mountain
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