Varietal - Zinfandel
January 12, 2012
A blend of Peachy’s best Zins, and it costs a few bucks more, but isn’t better. Forward flavors of raspberries and cherries are wrapped in soft tannins and acids. The wine could use more structure. —S.H. .
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January 12, 2012
From vines planted in 1937, this grower-turned-vintner family has crafted a first-rate Zin that perfectly reflects its terroir. It’s dry, bold and peppery, with brambly fruit that has a wild edge, and lots of alcohol. This value wine will benefit from mid-term aging. —S.H.
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Watts Zinfandel - 1999
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January 12, 2012
Trentadue’s La Storia bottlings are their reserves, and the designation is justified for this Zin. Soft and melted in texture, with succulent wild blackberry jam, milk chocolate and cherry flavors, it’s very dry, with gentle tannins. There’s a butterscotchy, vanilla richness on the finish that probably comes from charred oak.
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January 12, 2012
This Zin has lots of alcohol, nearly 16%, but you’d never know it because it’s so balanced. It’s rich, harmonious, fruity and very dry, with that wild, savage quality that marks this variety. In its own way, it’s classic Sonoma Zin, and from a great vineyard.
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January 12, 2012
This basically dry wine is soft and simple, with cherry, raspberry and mint jelly flavors. Okay with barbecue.
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January 12, 2012
For the second year running, this bottling is a superb Zinfandel. It’s as rich and ripe as they get, bursting with fresh raspberries, cherries and mocha, and that briary, brambly quality of wild forest nettles. Yet it’s thoroughly dry, with thick, refined tannins. Beautiful now for its effusive fruit, the wine should slowly slide over the next six years.
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JR Wine Zinfandel - 2008
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January 12, 2012
Made in a popular style, this jammy wine has cherry, blackberry and spiced rum flavors that are ripe and pure, with a pleasantly tannic texture. Easy to like.
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January 12, 2012
Not much to like here, with its herbal smell that’s almost vegetal, and simple, soft, slightly sweet flavor of cherry cough medicine.
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January 12, 2012
Awkward, with sweet, glyceriney flavors augmented with blackberry jam and toast. High alcohol creates some heat.
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Armida Zinfandel - 2008
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January 12, 2012
A dry, deeply flavorful and impressive Zinfandel that’s still young at the age of three-plus years. Shows an immaculate structure of strong tannins and acids framing intense flavors of blackberries and plums, spiced with pepper and finished with the scour of espresso. Needs a little time, though. Give it 1–3 years.
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Ledson Zinfandel - 2006
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