California Old Vine Zinfandel

Rather light color. Spicy nose. Juicy and spicy with rustic finish. 2014 vintage.

Perfect! Nice bold Zinfandel. Dark ruby color, nice on the nose with dark berries.

Excellent value

Berry and smoke on the nose. Flavor is classic OVZ with a bit of zip and zing. Berry sauce and cherry candies. Simple but pleasing.

Slightly better than 2015 - easy to drink

Full of ripe blackberry and black cherry goodness. Succulent and quaffable.

Peppery with a pleasant palate.

Nice and smooth! Not much bite, but that's fine. Surprisingly sweet, but palatable.

Delicious! Fruity but not sweet yum!

I found this wine to be particularity jammy, and with a strange metallic taste on the front of the palette. Mid-palette you got a fresh hit of raspberry, and then a finish with something like dried cherries or cranberries - quite tart, but aged. The finish was a blanket of vanilla extract - felt like oak was used to cover imperfections and poor balance. Unfortunately none of the cedar or spiciness mentioned by others - that would've helped balance the wine and make it more enjoyable!