Donald Williams

9.2

Hugh makes nice wine. — 4 years ago

with Bonnie

Loren Loftesnes

9.2

Magnum for the win! — 5 years ago

with Rosita

Heidi Harrison

9.1

Smooth, bright, dark fruit, not jammy, perfect w/BBQ tri-tip & beans, wish @quiviravineyard was still making this #zinfandel #drycreekvalley — 7 years ago

with Philip

Rich Bluth

9.0

Excellent Cal Ital. a bit more fruit than it's old world cousins. — 7 years ago

Loren Loftesnes

9.1

Very into GSM's from Rhone and Paso these days. This is the first one from Quivira that we really, really enjoyed! — 8 years ago

with Rosita

Loren Loftesnes

9.1

An absolute necessity on warm San Francisco days — 9 years ago

Emeritus Vineyards

10

Celebrating Mari's engagement with a birth year magnum! It could have waited another five years, but we couldn't! — 9 years ago

Chia-Shan Lee

10

Beautiful color and fragrant. Smooth taste with decent middle and late fragrant. Good with meat or alone. — 10 years ago

Jeff Proctor

8.9

Biked to this winery. — 10 years ago

Stephen Sasaki-Perez

10

ripe raspberry rivers flow through to a long finish. high alcohol (14.3) full body. there is still med+ acid matching the med darkred fruit. Better with an hour of air so these can probably last another couple years in great shape. lovin the 90s Quivira that I've tried — 4 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.1

Nicely done. Initially reserved nose gets more boisterous with air, and shows sappy raspberry ooze and kirsch, with some underlying stony minerals. Rich, ripe, dense fruit is buoyed nicely with acidity, it’s full bodied and the dark stoney finish has a bit of tannin. It likely will be better in a year or two. — 7 years ago

Donald Williams

9.1

A lovely Dry Creek Valley Zin. — 7 years ago

with Bonnie

Keith Rabkin

9.0

Petit Sirah so underrated — 8 years ago

Loren Loftesnes

8.9

This is actually pretty solid this year. Still not a top shelf Dry Creek Zin though — 9 years ago

with Rosita

Steven Foster

Wine buyer Belmont Wine Exchange

8.9

A banging Zinfandel. Such a great rich red fruit and woody smoke profile without being too spicy or heavy. — 9 years ago

Patrick Birch

9.2

This wine is a white stud. If this in any indication of what this wine maker and winery can do with white Rhone', get in line. Their 2012 Grenache is also spectacular. — 9 years ago

Nick Dor

9.3

Great Syrah from Dry Creek — 10 years ago

Simon Cm

9.9

Excellent old vine Zinfandel, very smooth like a thin port, strong lush — 11 years ago

Ellen Wright

9.0

The Pearson's brought this over for a night grilling out and eating on the back porch. Enjoyed it. The same grape varietals as pech d'andre. — 5 years ago

Brandi Bratek

9.0

Wow-I’m impressed. This takes me back to drinking wine in vineyards in northern Italy. Buy this and drink often. — 5 years ago

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

On the nose, boysenberries, olallieberries, blueberries, blackberries, baking spices, dry powdery soils, dry stems, bramble and bright, fresh, fragrant purple florals. The palate is warm, lush, round and elegant. Tannins 65% resolved. It's still fairly big and very fresh. Palate fruits are; boysenberries, olallieberries, blueberries, blackberries, black raspberries and raspberries haunting the background. Lifting warm spices, black pepper, black licorice, vanilla, clove, nutmeg, dry crushed rocks, volcanic minerals with liqueur notes settling in at the mid point to the long finish. Dry stones, dry straw, tarry notes, violets, purple florals and palate raining acidity. The finish is long with good balance of fruit & earth. There's still nice tension, length and structure. The 05 still has another 7-10 years of good drinking ahead. As great as it was to be at the property tasting their new releases, it's a pleasure to enjoy one of their well aged wines back in the states. Photos of; the view from the new estate (love that red Barossa soil), tasting bar, Andrew Tierney, Torbreck International Sales Ambassador who hosted our visit(left) and Owner, David Powell (right). Producer history and notes...Torbreck Vintners was founded by David Powell in 1994. Before founding Torbreck, he worked for Robert O'Callaghan at Rockford Wines in the Barossa Valley. Rockford is an historic old winery and they love old historic wine relics...all you have to do is walk the property. In trying to start his own label, David lacked the funds to buy grapes outright. So, David began to share-farm a vineyard, a practice which involves working without pay until the grapes are sold, at which time the owner is paid a percentage of the market rate for his grapes and the share-farmer keeps the grapes for their own use. The share-farming principle or as we call it, sweat equity. This enabled Torbreck to obtain fruit from the very best vineyards in the Barossa Valley, while giving David Powell experience working in the vineyard and winery. In 1995 Powell crushed and fermented his grapes in a shed on his 12-hectare Marananga property; which continues to be home to the winery. The winery was named "Torbreck" after the forest in Scotland where Powell worked as a lumberjack. The first wine made under the Torbreck label was the 1995 RunRig. When it was released in 1997, Parker gave it a score of 95; which went a long way in launching Torbreck Vintners. Lisa, now Managing Editor at Robertparker.com raised that score to 98 in 2010. In late 2002, Torbreck was placed into receivership due to financial pressures on Powell from a divorce settlement. Torbreck was purchased by Australian businessman Jack Cowin for 6.5 million Australian dollars with Powell retained as winemaker and managing director. In 2008 Powell reacquired the estate in partnership with Peter Kight, the owner of Quivira Winery in Sonoma County's Dry Creek Valley in California. Torbreck produces around 70,000 cases of wine per year, depending on vintage conditions. 6.5 million Australian dollars is not a lot of money in today's environment...actually quite a deal. They had just completed their new facilities as shown in the photos two weeks prior to our visit in April. If you haven't had their wines, their lower price wines are very good at great values. Torbreck makes everything up to their high end RunRig at $300 plus a bottle with lots of quality wines in between that are really quite good and value priced vs. the rest of international market. — 7 years ago

William Langley

Tasting Room Lead/Wine Educator Dry Creek Vineyard, Blogger YnoGuy.com, CSW & WSET III Certified

8.9

BlackBerry jam with burnt toffee and cocoa. — 9 years ago

Jon Haupt

9.4

Superb right now. Spicy and bursting with dark fruits. — 9 years ago

Robert Bingham

9.1

Lenny visits @quivira #thereslenny and enjoys an outstanding #sauvignonblanc — 10 years ago

George Kurtyka

9.8

Lamb and Zin = a match made in heaven — 11 years ago