2020 Klinker Brick Old Vine Zinfandel

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 88.2 points

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  4/2/2024 - The Drunken Cyclist Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Retail $22. Heavy Bottle (6770 g; 1lb 7.6oz). I have only positive vibes from Klinker Brick as they hosted me back in the day for a bit of a tour/press trip and we ended up at a dinner back at the winery. They couldn't have been nicer. Sure, I found their wines a bit heavy handed and on the verge of "over-the-top" but there were kind folk at the winery and I have nothing but pleasant memories. As for this wine? Dark and perfumed berries along with a heavy baked blackberry pie thing going on. There is a mocha, overly chocolate aspect here as well. On the palate, it is what I expected: loaded with fruit and bits of character but as it vies for "excellence", it falls just short. The mocha finish is just a bit over the top. 88 Points.
  
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  1/31/2024 - Brendel Likes this wine: 87 Points

  This wine is not bad, but not to our personal tastes. On approach, the wine is soft, very fruit forward, and unctuous and jammy. It would be a good wine for a single glass at a restaurant—it’s casual.
  
  However past the first few sips the wine is too heavy and jammy for our taste, lacking structure and refinement. It is very ripe/warm climate/new world/ very Californian. We drink Italian and French almost exclusively.
  Of Zins, thus far we really only like Ridge Zinfandel. This is not that.
  
  To people who like wines with a sweeter and more fruity side then this would be good.

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  1/21/2024 - OldHick95 Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Solid food wine on night one. Flavors of dried plums, and black pepper spiciness. On night two (half bottle stored in the fridge overnight) the fruit flavors were nearly gone, and steeped tea and a tinge of spiciness were prominent.

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  12/24/2023 - CappyD Likes this wine: 88 Points

  First tried in 2010, 2013 when I rated it 90. This 2929: Medium red. Reasonably soft and fruity on opening.

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  11/16/2023 - BrewsBeer wrote:

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