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- winoweenie - 04-01-2004
This blend of 88% Zin, 9% Alacante Bouschet, and 3% Petite Syrah needs another 2-4. The nose took 1&1/2 hours to open with all of the forward berry, brambly, spicy, and cacoa flavors also coming over into the taste. The over 100 year old vines produce a very concentrated bottle. The 15% alc is hadly noticable. A really super zin that deserves more time. 91/88.35 by the box. WW