Winery - Norman
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Soft and sweetly ripe, this is a Cab with the creamy texture and flavor of milk chocolate, in addition to truer varietal ones of blackberries and cherries. It’s so ripe in fruity flavor that it’s almost sweet, but good acidity and finely textured tannins keep it dry.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Very youthful and unintegrated, with our panel’s question remaining unanswered: Will it come together or fall apart? For now, you get decent materials in the form of ripe raspberry fruit, ample size and weight, but also a sense of rawness and lack of precision.
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Norman Syrah - 2003
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Strives for class and finesse with its moderate alcohol, dry finish, and delicate balance of plummy, coffee, tobacco and earth flavors. The tannins are still kind of edgy and rough, but there’s a nice fruity sweetness.
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Norman Syrah - 2002
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Smells very ripe, almost stewed, and it lives up to its name (The Monster) with big, rustic, extracted, alcoholic flavors. For those who like old-style Zin, with no-holds-barred power.
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Norman Zinfandel - 1998
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is tough, chewy Zinfandel; fruity and one-dimensional, with overripe, port-like flavors.
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Norman Zinfandel - 1997
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Sure is sweet, with a super-sugary blast of late-harvest blackberry, caramel and toffee-coffee flavors. Yet there’s a good cut of acidity to balance. Try with vanilla ice cream.
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Norman Zinfandel - 2000
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Not much reserve going on with this soft, boring Chardonnay. It’s dry and heavy in pineapple and lime pulp flavors.
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Norman Chardonnay - 2008
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Tastes almost as sweet as a dessert wine, with a glyceriney, sugary edge to the blackberries and chocolate. Too soft, too. The result is unbalanced.
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Norman Zinfandel - 2007
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A blend of Syrah, Grenache, Mourvèdre and Petite Sirah, this wine shows a rustic but easy drinking quality. It’s fairly tannic, with a long finish of cherries, blackberries and spiced coffee.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Strikes the palate as quite sweet, with citrus, melon and fig flavors. The wine is a bit soft in acidity, which makes it slightly cloying.
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