2005 Schrader Cellars Zinfandel Vieux-Os Gnarly Stump Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 85.3 points

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  6/11/2021 - houstonjeff@hotmail.com Does not like this wine: 83 Points

  This wine is past it's time. Color is now amber and has lost most of it's fruit. A disappointment for waiting this long.

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  5/10/2011 - tall2002 wrote: 90 Points

  This tastes much better, I think age is bring this one around, fruit forward, sour cherries.

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  3/27/2011 - HOS wrote: 83 Points

  And my last bottle is consistent. This seems to be over the hill based on my last two bottles and the latest tasting notes. Sour cherry rhubarb. Very disappointing from Schrader.

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  11/14/2010 - runandshoot wrote: 70 Points

  Not sure what happened to this one. The Hell Hole Cuvee was pretty delicious and was not at all what I expected. The Gnarly Stump was not at all what I expected, but not in a good way. The wine was light red and almost transparent in the glass, and the nose was cigar box and earthy spice - I could not taste any fruit. In fact, that is all I could smell/taste in the glass - the overpowering earthy cigar smell permeated the entire palate, from start to painfully long finish. I could not even take a fourth sip. Either I had a bad bottle, or it's definitely past it's prime. Either way, a disappointment considering I enjoyed the Hell Hole Cuvee previously.

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  10/10/2010 - Kingvino wrote: 85 Points

  To call this wine a disappointment, would be an understatement. Red fruit dominated with a very light color, this wine is rather mixed up. Plastic notes and earth tones and vegetal tones, funky and weird. Not sure this wine can be fixed with air or time. The bottle is not easy to store, and the cork is quite a pain. The price of bottle plus shipping and tax pushes this wine passed a point of worthy experimentation. Too light and too funky, maybe a Pinot Noir drinkers interpretation of Zin

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