2019 Prisoner Wine Company The Prisoner

Community Tasting Notes (118) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  4/12/2024 - Robwild Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Wow! Not the wine, but the wide variation in comments and community scores. People either love this wine or trash it. This was my first (and only) bottle and finally opened it after wondering about all the hype. Full bodied, inky, firm tannins with dark fruits, pepper, and vanilla. There is no complexity - one dimensional with lots of fruit. I considered giving this the "dreaded 89" score, but hesitated in consideration of the many fans of this wine, some of whom are my friends. There are much better Zinfandels for the price. Wine value $20 + $25 in marketing costs!

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  4/1/2024 - MatVino2014 Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Très bien mais cher comme Q/P considérant le niveau de sucre résiduel, typique de la Californie mais qui est un peu limitatif somme toute

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  3/24/2024 - rehulk Likes this wine: 90 Points

  great wine

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  2/15/2024 - Oliverl1 Does not like this wine: 83 Points

  It tastes like a mass produced unsophisticated wine with sugar and flavours added chemically. Yuck. Glad I only paid $20 for a bottle.

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  2/14/2024 - ChristopherB Does not like this wine: 88 Points

  Symbolic, drinking the Prisoner 4 weeks to the day after my breakup with E. from... California and on Valentine's Day.
  
  Unfortunately, this is rather a caricature. No finesse, big boned, overly fruity, nearly like fruit juice (blueberry dominant), overly oaked with overly toasted oak. A cross between a fruit juice and oak tea? I may be exaggerating, but then isn't this what this wine is all about? Exaggeration?
  
  Anyhow, a matter of taste, but this is not remotely my taste. Fortunately, while in California I did taste better local wines, including some really nice and well balanced wines, but as a general preference, I still prefer old-world wines.
  
  88 or so?

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