February 28, 2024 - My last bottle of this vintage. It is quite enjoyable, with dark cherries, and dark chocolate. It is very complex, with tertiary notes of dried fruits. But I would recommend enjoy your bottles of this vintage sooner than later.
December 29, 2023 - Wow, this was a great bottle of this wine! It had plum, black fruits, blackberries, bing cherries, forest floor, spice box, and mellow tannins, plus a medium to long finish. The fruit has not faded and I could not have had a better Zinfandel!
August 28, 2023 - Cherry, dark fruit full body And smooth
March 10, 2023 - Same experience as my last bottle. The wine has plum, black fruits, blackberries, bing cherries, forest floor, spice box, and mellow tannins, plus a medium to long finish. It is quite delicious.
February 13, 2023 - I was torn about this wine. It has moments where the dark zinny fruit and the American oak and the herbiness all come together, and it’s really good for those flashes - reminds a bit of, well, Jimsomare from 20 years ago. But there are other moments of a distinctly overripe, stewed fruit character, and in those moments the wine feels tired and jammy, sort of like a too-old carignan from France. We gave the bottle air over a whole evening and it never settled for long in either bucket. In any event, this was monstrously tannic for zin and had excellent acidity, not withstanding a very ripe fruit character. Disappointing, but not uninteresting.
January 1, 2023 - The wine has plum, black fruits, blackberries, bing cherries, forest floor, spice box, and mellow tannins, plus a medium to long finish.
December 23, 2022 - Phenomenal. Drank well right away. Opened up with some more air. Medium dryness. Notes of herbs on the back of the mouth. Great fruit notes but not overly jammy. Very soul warming.
July 9, 2022 - Overripe fruit and decay on nose, juicy black fruit on palate with vanilla/caramel notes. Smooth tannin. Probably peaking now
March 4, 2022 - Not the balanced zin that I expect from Jimsomare.
February 14, 2022 - Same as previous note from July, 2021 but the red fruit boquet jumped out of the glass more than I recalled from the last bottle. Well balanced , nice finish.