2013 Joseph Swan Vineyards Zinfandel Zeigler Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  11/16/2023 - A6Rover Likes this wine: 92 Points

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  12/29/2019 - bravo.solares Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Opened and slow ox’d for 75 mins, then drank over 120 mins - first by itself, then paired with some superb bellota-fed iberico ham we brought from Valencia. The wine was very enjoyable. Textbook old school Zin. Brambly red and black fruits, hints of licorice and spices, barely perceptible tannins, good acidity. Best at or just below cellar temp - so as to better mask the alcohol. Charming in its rusticity. Would love to revisit in 2-3 yrs if I had more.

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  1/18/2019 - golfwine wrote: 92 Points

  I spent so much time visiting the wineries and vineyards of Northern Sonoma that I sometimes have trouble masking my bias (worth 2 extra pts.) towards the producers that I became intimately familiar with over so many years. Rare, if a visit to the area didn’t include a stop at Swan; especially if with a new guest. Unchanged and so, unspoiled but with the consistency that you want when visiting an old friend. Whereas the Zins of Dry Creek have the briary fruit and structure, RRV’s come with perfumed fruit and a hedonistically straightforwardness that’s meant to pop & pour - as part of a sun-drenched picnic or a casual meal with friends - think pizza or pasta. These wines are so true, I can’t imagine the family ever selling out to a corporate behemoth. Better to just close the doors, if the story ever were to end.
  Oh, what does the wine taste like, you ask? Not unlike the small handful of wild blackberries we used to pick on our bike rides and hikes throughout western Sonoma County or rounds of golf in the hills of Novato - some deep purple and sweet; others opaque reddish and tart. Together, a mouthful of priceless memories! :)

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  11/12/2018 - MRichman wrote:

  Good dense fruit. Black olive, chalky tannins. Medium light bodied. Very good. A bit of red cherry.

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  5/27/2018 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 91 Points

  Joseph Swan Winery tasting visit.
  Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium intensity, with aromas of strawberries, red cherries, earth. Developed.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, high alcohol (14.8%), medium tannins, medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of strawberries, red cherries, raspberry coulis, sweet spice, light earth. Long finish.
  Very good quality Zinfandel. I really appreciate the light touch to maintain refined elegance here. Good stuff to enjoy now and over next 2-3 years.
  Old vines planted in the 1920s.

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