Couple of hours of decanting needed to open up!!! But once it did it was almost like a port. Smooth, liquorice..
— 6 years ago
Sean Minor founded Sean Minor Wines and Four Bears Winery in 2005. A veteran of the wine industry Sean’s fine wine career began with Beaulieu Vineyard (BV) in Napa, then managing Oregon's King Estate Winery, and lastly President of Benton-Lane Winery, after which he returned to CA to manage Renwood Winery. Aromas of sweet red berry fruits and spice. On the palate cherry and strawberry flavors with sweet earthy notes and toasty oak. Fine savory tannins on a lingering finish. Good value. — 9 years ago
Nice and juicy, this wineries entry level Zinfandel. Would recommend as good value. — 10 years ago
The 2013 special reserve Grandpere oozes bold richness and sophistication. Chewy red fruit with mind blowing soft tannins push through from the first sip to long after the lengthy finish. — 10 years ago
The 2015 Orange Muscat from Renwood Winery in Amador County. This wine has a beautiful bouquet of white rose petals, orange blossoms and honeysuckle flowers. Palate of fresh orange, ripe white peach, sweet apricot and honey. This wine would pair great with food! — 10 years ago
Big Zin but acidity balances the ripe fruit. Maybe not as great as the very old vines in the vineyard killed off 20+ years ago but the soil is shining through. Well done. — a year ago
Very nice fruity flavor. . . Going to make the most of our social grounding by cooking out and then take a nice after dinner walk in the Raceway Woods — 6 years ago
jammy strawberry cranberry pepper — 8 years ago
Olives, dried black fruit, decent tannin and structure integration — 9 years ago
Light spicy dry — 9 years ago
The 2015 Jubilance Sparkling Rose is vibrant, complex and dry. The wine is 100% Amador County Zinfandel. Aromas of passion fruit, red licorice and nectarine. Palate bursts with dried strawberry, tangerine and red cherry. This wine has a fresh and juicy acidity with a supple rounded finish. — 10 years ago
Bobby Dean Parker said it pretty well in 1996: . . The 1994 Zinfandel Grandpere Vineyard offers an opaque purple color that resembles black ink. A fabulous nose of old vine black-cherries, black-raspberries, earth, licorice, and pepper is an attention-grabber. This is an unctuously-textured, low acid, extremely rich, ripe, dry Zinfandel that coats the mouth with amazing flavor extraction as well as silky richness. The finish lasts for 40-45 seconds. If readers admire huge, rich, yet well-balanced Zinfandels, these wines represent a tour de force in winemaking. And it is still knocking socks off today (my words) . . In the company of a few Martinelli jack ass hill and Giuseppe and Louisa bottlings, some occasional Ridge bottlings, these are perhaps the best examples of that varietal I have tasted in my 50 years of drinking them . .  kudos to Scott Harvey for creating these legends and if you happen to find some well stored bottles do not hesitate to snatch them up as they will provide fabulous drinking probably for another 20 years to come — 5 years ago
Light red with a pleasing taste for daily consumption, low oak. — 6 years ago
Pretty wine. Love to bad mouth Shebl but this is a very pretty wine. Well done Joe! Shebl you need to let me buy you some beer! — 9 years ago
Excellent. Great fruit with long satisfying finish. — 9 years ago
An excellent earthy Zin. Heavy bodied, fruit forward, smooth tannins, and lingering finish. Light tannic character. Plum, burnt cherry, licorice. — 10 years ago

The 2013 Riker Zinfandel starts with a nose of red raspberry and coffee cake followed by aromas of anise and fresh nutmeg. The Riker is chewy and intense with crisp, vibrant acidity. Finishes with notes of wild dried blueberry. — 10 years ago
Jon Ruyle
Dude plenty of bramble and dark fruit… not sure what else you could want or expect from this… This actually is better than I remember renwood zin being. — 4 months ago