2002 Ridge Zinfandel Dusi Ranch

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 89.9 points

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  6/30/2018 - ESTEELE90 Likes this wine:

  At tasting. Brief note. Nose and palate are powerful and structured showing deep baking spices, purple and blue fruits, bitter/amaro notes with time. There's nothing jammy or confected about this. Midpalate has a rich mouthfeel that is at once coating yet light on its feet and not sluggish thanks to the perky acidity. If this is what balanced Cali zin can aspire to be consider me a fan. Well made and a lovely wine.

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  2/16/2018 - William.Smyth Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Rich plummy fruit you would expect from San Luis obisbo . Drinking wonderfully

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  7/12/2015 - Birorganic Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Still excellent. Obvious Paso old vine zin fruit. Chewy big ripe fruit. Way past it prime but still delicious. Save some for desert with cheese.
  Stored perfectly since release.

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  5/1/2015 - JoeGr Likes this wine:

  Still drinking quite nice, even on the second night

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  7/26/2014 - blanquito wrote: 92 Points

  100% Zinfandel, from a vineyard I've never tried before... Spicy, candied nose, filled with Christmas spices, black cherry and blueberry compote, lavender, cloves, anise, creosote, amarone and young vintage port. The palate is quite sweet, cherry-medicinal with a spicy new oak element that Zinfandel embraces effortlessly (in a way that cab or merlot might not), but with plenty of juiciness and drinkability. There's a rustic, wild note that reminds me of Ridge's Geyserville, is Dusi Ranch an old-vine vineyard? Crystal clear, smooth, polished without being slick, and a pitch-perfect weight despite all of the sweetness and alcohol. I don't know how Ridge does this, year after year, bottling after bottling, but there is something so fun in their zin-based wines that never comes at the expense of seriousness. I suppose some might find this too sweet, too spicy, but I love it. Still has years ahead of it, but drinking great now.
  
  Frozen for 2 days, thawed, and finished... this is still interesting but is now all spicy anise and coconut. Invokes many Priorat wines. Good, but with less focus than on day 1.

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