2014 Covenant Zahav Suisan Valley

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 94 points

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  2/2/2024 - Adam Pritzker Likes this wine: 96 Points

  96-97. You may need an Ah-So to open this. The worm ripped a hole through the cork when I tried to open this. This wine is insanely good. Still evolving in a snail's pace. Nice copper gold color. Explosive bouquet of honey, orange, tangerine, candied fruits, a hint of mint, talc. Super rich, super concentrated, very sweet but beautifully balanced with great acidity. It is not cloying at all. Rich flavors of Orange marmalade, honeysuckle, candied citrus fruits. Great mile long finish with great acidity. Thoroughly enjoyable now this should last for another couple of decades possibly longer. Absolutely gorgeous to drink now. I wish they would go back to using this grape instead of the Chardonnay for their zahav. 11% abv. Sugar and harvest 476 grams per liter and residual sugar 298 grams per liter. Incredible QPR. A must have for any fan of dessert wines.cellar selection.

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  4/7/2020 - Adam Pritzker Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Light copper gold color. Explosive honey orange bouquet. On the palate, viscous, super sweet, rich honey, blood orange, orange marmalade flavors with soft acids to keep it interesting. A mile long finish. Evolving at a snails pace. Drink now to 2034, possibly longer. Super delicious

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  4/14/2019 - Adam Pritzker Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Light gold color. Explosive bouquet and flavors of orange blossoms, orange marmalade, candy oranges honeysuckle and floral perfume. Intense and incredibly sweet with loads of complexity and a shocking amount of acid. I've had this wine a few times since release and at 5 years old it is not showing any age at all. With the sugar in the city this should last longer than your average desert Muscat. An outstanding effort. I must try for any fan of dessert wines. 11% ABV. A whopping 476 grams per liter sugar at Harvest and a whopping 290 grams per liter residual sugar. Wow. Impressive.

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  9/15/2015 - raccah wrote: 90 Points

  What an intoxicating nose of honeysuckle, floral notes of rose petal, followed by ripe and intense guava and papaya. The mouth on this full bodied wine is rich, layered, and intensely viscous but still well balanced with ripe peach, orangina soda, caramel, honey and raisins. The finish is nice and sweet but a tad short - but it lengthens with time, with candied notes, sweet notes, and nutty almost charred flavors that linger long.

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