2013 Sky Vineyards Zinfandel Mt. Veeder

Community Tasting Notes (35) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  4/4/2024 - tomlee wrote: 91 Points

  Dark crimson in color. 13.4% ABV. Pretty nose of tart red fruits, baking spices and earth. Medium body with perfect acidity and balance. Packed with crunchy red fruit. Salmonberry, cranberry, spearmint and earth on the palate. Nice length on the finish. Charming, Claret style Zinfandel that has aged well. Best over the next 1-2 years.

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  11/16/2023 - Egatniv wrote: 92 Points

  Drank 1/2 with chicken in tomatillo and hominy sauce. Excellent balance of acidity and sweetness against a difficult flavor combination.
  1/2 with salmon, spinach and kasha, also worked well

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  8/23/2023 - Egatniv wrote: 88 Points

  Not very flavorful or spicy. Drank with gumbo one day, grilled salmon the next. Just ok

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  7/21/2022 - aero Likes this wine:

  7th bottle consumed, 2nd note. Starting to take on more traditional mountain Napa tones of small berries, luscious red fruit, and oak spice. Its fun and funky early years are now turning slightly more austere and pedigreed. The gripping acidity has been absorbed somehow. Could be bottle variation, or sign of reaching maturity. Drink now-2032. This is a Zinfandel for anyone suspicious of Zinfandel. ~92pt

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  7/20/2022 - mkribar Likes this wine:

  Tasted after decanting for about five hours. This wine is still very aromatic: red fruit, strawberry, cherry, some fig. Also underbrush, redwoods, thyme, cardamom. On the palate, there's still medium plus acid and tanning--the wine has plenty of structure. More high toned fruit: bing cherry, lingonberry, and some plum. The perfumed elements of the nose show back up on the finish, with notes of cedar, thyme, and fig.
  
  This wine is still in great shape and there should be absolutely no rush to drink it. It's approachable now (with a length decant), but has yet to reach its prime drinking window. Time to bury my other bottles deep.

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