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Friday, November 1, 2019 - I didn't find this Zin very fruit forward at all -- barely correct, in fact. It displayed much more of a rugged terroir like that in Eastern European reds. After decanting for nearly an hour, it poured a dark and bloody with clumpy sheets of glyceryl cascades on the glass. Right away, the nose is ecologically immense, rather than agricultural. It was like trudging through an evergreen and birch forest situated on the mossy rocks of some craggy Atlantic land mass. Dates and raisins dusted in baking spices dance in the background. But fossil fuels are more prominent. It enters the mouth stealthily smooth. The petrol is prominent as it lays out, curling around the tongue, in restrained fashion. Those dark Mediterranean fruits are there, along with a brightly acidic pomegranate note, but still a backbone of sinewy cedar and a toasted nuttiness (pecan and pellicle of Pará nut) dominate. Blackberry and vanilla steal in, shrouded in peat-smoke. Those earthen and combusted notes contribute to length for a wine that would otherwise be surprisingly short. Tannins are fairly persistent, acids on the low side of moderate, and body a mite thin. With time, toffee and red currant come up in the nose. Salty cheddar and tobacco pile tacky behind the lips. Frutti di bosco acids emerge without the sugars of any particular undergrowth plant; still the granite forest holds sway. If I have a critique it's about the lack of weight to accompany all the geological scents and flavors, but that probably makes it more versatile, overall. This dark Zin is worth twice what we paid for it.

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