Color: Dark center to ruby/garnet rim. Quite pretty with no browning.
Nose: Smoke, blackberry jam. Hints of mint, cinnamon spice and herbs.
Palate: Rich, deep, long and very well balanced on the palate with fully resolved tannins. Sweet, pure and clean blackberry fruit flavors have mellowed and deepened with time. Almost elegant? At least for a zin. 15%abv on the label but no heat evident.
A great testament to what well made Napa zin can do.
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This wine opened a little rough but settled into a smooth clean finish. I decanted it and let it sit for 2 hours. It was a mellow wonderful wine with a great flavor. I was sad to open it (based on life suggestion on CT) but amazed once I drank it. We paired this wine with a crock pot goulash and some desert chocolate. WOW!! It lived well past the CT suggest 2001 drink stage..
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1/12/2015 - meniscus Likes this wine: 90 Points
Winebid $10 purchase so fingers crossed.
Color: Dark center to ruby/garnet rim. Quite pretty with no browning.
Nose: Smoke, blackberry jam. Hints of mint, cinnamon spice and herbs.
Palate: Rich, deep, long and very well balanced on the palate with fully resolved tannins. Sweet, pure and clean blackberry fruit flavors have mellowed and deepened with time. Almost elegant? At least for a zin. 15%abv on the label but no heat evident.
A great testament to what well made Napa zin can do.
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11/6/2005 - tjlucas wrote: 92 Points
This wine opened a little rough but settled into a smooth clean finish. I decanted it and let it sit for 2 hours. It was a mellow wonderful wine with a great flavor. I was sad to open it (based on life suggestion on CT) but amazed once I drank it. We paired this wine with a crock pot goulash and some desert chocolate. WOW!! It lived well past the CT suggest 2001 drink stage..
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6/5/2004 - buckeye76 wrote: 88 Points
ORANGE BROWN ON THE EDGE. DEEP FRUIT AND DRIED PLUMS IN THE NOSE. FLAVOR LIKE THE NOSE AND A MEDIUM LENGTH FINISH.
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