Scherrer Vineyard Old and Mature Vines Zinfandel

This is just an all around awesome wine. Big but bursting with bright red fruit flavors. Spicy, chocolatey, even silky. Completely dry. Finish is long and fragrant. Excellent.

Enjoyed revisiting this opulently jammy and robust Zin on its own. Ripe cherry, juicy plum, as well as prominent but seamlessly integrated spices thanks to some responsible use of new French oak.

Inky purple without any brick. Subdued jamminess on the nose but not much alcohol despite ripeness at 14.5 ABV. Delicious black fruit with pronounced blueberries (my favorite element of the Shale Terrace). Disagree with other reviewer that some Zinfandel do not improve with some age. Fruit component can fade if you wait@too long but tannins become supple.

Great value for price! Dark Chocolate, raisins, prunes. Not overly Jammy.
Good Stuff!

Shared with The Houston’s.

Decanted for roughly an hour. Smaller body than many mature zins, jammy, blackberry, cherry, very high alcohol finish.

Bought on futures worth the wait- rich and meaty perfect with steak and taters

Blueberry and black raspberry. Subtle tannins. Lovely wine and will only develop further.

John had this 10 years ago

Kyle had this 11 years ago