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...offers a more nuanced, complex style in its blueberry, pomegranate, sandalwood, and cedar pencil aromas and flavors. Elegant, seamless, and incredibly pure, it shines for its complexity and elegance, yet still packs terrific fruit.
...sings of crème de cassis, blackberry pie and crushed rocks with touches of baking spices, pepper, hoisin, tilled soil and fried herbs. The palate is full-bodied and full-on decadent with firm, grainy tannins and a pleasantly tart, refreshing line, finishing very long and spicy.
...Clean, mineral notes run through a core of intense dark fruit. Powerful and intense in all of its dimensions, but with substantial polish...Cedar, tobacco, incense and new leather give the 2015 its distinctive personality.
This is another fantastic vintage of this Zinfandel, blended smaller amounts of Mourvèdre and Petite Sirah. It offers a wealth of soft, juicy milk chocolate and cherry pie character and is high in acidity and dusty tannin.
Supple and spicy, yet subtly brooding at the core, offering precise notes of tart cherry and blueberry, with grilled sage and pepper flavors.