Marc Stubblefield

Wine Sales at Vino Carta and Kogod Wine Merchant

9.0

I love it when you can have a big, slutty, oaked up Zin and still have it come across as relatively restrained in the category. Some days you just want to go there with a grilled rib eye. Still could use a couple years to settle in, though. — 9 years ago

jake aziz

9.2

Big ol Cali cab. Good stuff. — 10 years ago

Uli Klumpp

9.0

Got a tremendous deal on this one. Nice expression of a CA Zin, look elsewhere for subtlety. Not the late harvest style, it's mostly dry despite its ripeness. 16.4% ABV allegedly, didn't taste as much heat though.

Winemaker's comment: Rich bouquet. Big, bright, ripe complex fruity flavors. Mouth filling. Balanced fruit and acid. — 10 years ago

Dock Hooks

9.6

The good stuff, old school peppery black fruit zin, with rabbit tobacco and rain touched moss on the nose, adding to the old school Clapton blues rifts filling the air at my hometown local bistro (SoundSide; check the fresh locally grown organic vegetables and our ocean ahi sashimi/homecomings can be so sweet, like owner/operator Lauren) all so groovy😎, not unlike Ravenswood, itself/themselves...

PS see next entry for food coupling! — 10 years ago

Lara H

9.2

I love zins, this is not a typical zin. If you don't like zins normally then hit this bad boy up. You might change your mind. — 11 years ago

Clay Elkins

9.9

Big, Bad Red!! — 12 years ago

Fem McClure

9.3

Tasty!! Sweet, very slightly dry, strong cherry notes, with a touch of cranberry, cardamom, and vanilla. The nose is extremely pleasant, full of cherry and oak. Very, very nice — 9 years ago

Kelly C

9.0

Gotta love Ravenswood wines! Not a big zin fan but this is good. Not to dry either — 9 years ago

SV

9.1

2013 Juvenile Zin. Blended from 15 vineyards, but nothing over 25 years old. Big, raspberry, currant, cinnamon aromas. Taste is more restrained with currant, blackfruit, and a mineral edge. Tastes cooler than its 15.4% self. — 10 years ago

doug williams

9.0

Big velvety zin. Sinful at 16.3%. — 10 years ago

Bill Long

9.6

Big Zin if you like big zins. And we do! — 11 years ago

John Vesey

9.0

2011 Cab Sauv/Zin/Petite Sirah blend, nose fruit berry, color dark garnet, flavors raspberry,currant,oak, chocolate heavy body, big tannins nice bottle
— 11 years ago

Kate Morin

9.5

@ SuWu on St Laurent avec Yohan et Josee before Rachid Badouri show — 12 years ago

Jonathan Wall

9.0

Is it possible to have an elegant Zin? Not big. Not jammy. Not high in alcohol. Medium bodied and balanced. Softly smokey, raspberry, chocolate icing, with a sweet medium length finish. Over 3 nights. Well appreciated. — 9 years ago

Jeff Hollinden

9.0

Big and jammy. Great Zin. — 9 years ago

Suz Davidson

9.0

Big and fruity, but not overly sweet. A nice, full bodied and balanced zin. — 10 years ago

Robert Knowles

9.1

This was really nice - big brambly Zin character up front, long cherry finish. Sandy even likes it. — 10 years ago

Quaid Edwards

9.2

Big, bold blackberry flavour with a spice to its finish. It'd be great with barbecue! — 10 years ago

Reagan Nunnally

9.2

Big jammy zin on a cool fall night. — 11 years ago

Jeff Robillard

9.6

Excellent Zin. Big and bold. — 11 years ago