Very good low budget Zin, much better than some twice the price point.
Sweet with lots of spice... — 7 years ago
Citrus, pineapple, green apple & melon, tropicals with white & yellow florals on the nose. Nice round texture, good chalkiness & soft minerals, wet stones, guava, pineapple, green apple, underripe melon, white peach, nectarine with nice delicate spice on the long finish. — 8 years ago
Love the forest floor aroma — 9 years ago
Dry and orange and my new girlfriend — 10 years ago
Very drinkable !! 2012
— 10 years ago
Very good with 5 years on it! Night 1 had bold fruit and by night 2 it developed into a spicy and smoky wonderland with just a hint of salinity. — 10 years ago
Classy Zin - good to drink even without decanting. Tasted really well together with hazzelnuts in chocolate. — 11 years ago
Fetzer moscato — 12 years ago
Others say it’s oaky... I get a little but not in an off-putting way. For the $, this is incredibly solid. Perfect for Thanksgiving or any white meat bird. — 6 years ago
Always good to have a taste of home, and very little does that better than Gimblett Gravels Syrah. Great dark fruit, showing excellent leathery tones. — 7 years ago
Good zin! Yummy! — 7 years ago
I love this wine. I love this wine because it exists all the way at the 'painstakingly clean and precise' end of the skin-contact spectrum. Don't get me wrong, I love the super-natty wild and wooly and of the spectrum too. But this. This is so purely and exactly what it sets out to be. And I love it. — 8 years ago
Not very complex, but nice earthiness and easy to drink.. — 9 years ago
Great Buy at Total Wine NJ — 9 years ago
Who says cheap wine can't be good? Smoothe, balanced, and potent without turning you off. Definitely a staple for standard wine! — 9 years ago
Spectacularly soft and good, this is the type of wine for people that don't like strong full bodied wines — 10 years ago
Smell- massive blackberry, and some eucalyptus?
Taste- subtle blackberry and stronger on the eucalyptus. Classy. — 11 years ago
We had the pleasure if meeting Kelby the winemaker when he was in town last summer. We really enjoyed the wines from the Finger Lakes. — 12 years ago
I always seem to screw up and not order nearly enough of this. This one goes more to the smoky, meaty side than the previous release(s), yet still has full court press of black fruit, black licorice, black pepper, and allspice. This wine does take an hour to figure itself out as this one was extremely acidic and somewhat disjointed initially. This wine poured a dark violet to the glass. The nose is black fruit, licorice with a hint of grilled meat, iodine, and a nutty character. The entry is dark black fruit, black licorice, smoke, leather, with plum and grilled meat character in the middle with some allspice kind of character. Finishes with nice acidity and a stiff, toasted tannin on the finish with lots of black pepper and fruit. This wine is on full blast, so make sure your suspenders are on. Gonna try to beg for more of this, as it will still be going strong for a while. @Shay A I think this one has your name on it. — 7 years ago
On the nose, crack pepper, blackberries, black plum, black raspberries, blueberries & violets. On the palate, M+ powdery tannins, black cherries, blackberries, black plum, black raspberries, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, wood shavings, violets, dry crushed rocks, leather, tarry notes, black cherry cola, black licorice & black pepper. The fruits are certainly better quality/riper in their "Homage." The finish has sticky/meaty tannins, good acidity, nice spice and ripe fruits. — 8 years ago
Had to open another bottle as the tannic structure in the last one was so striking. Decanted for the bulk of the day as this was tight & tannic for several hours. The decant is the key as it is now a pleasure of smoky red fruit & light herbal quality. Will check back on these in a few years. Serious stuff. — 9 years ago
Perfect balance with dark cherry fruit. Matched perfectly with a grilled veal chop — 9 years ago
Smooth Zinfandel from valley? — 10 years ago
Best $8.00 bottle of wine I've ever had. Very smooth and tasty. — 10 years ago
Selected from the "best of the best" barrels, our Trinity Reserve Pinot features our stellar 115 clone which elevates this vintage to new heights. All the lushness of the Classic 2012, with an added inner structure and spice on the palate. One for the table now, two for the cellar! — 11 years ago
Good acid lean minerally — 12 years ago
Ebenezer Nkrumah
Great wine. Will definitely buy again — 6 years ago