Carlisle Winery & Vineyards Monte Rosso Vineyard Zinfandel 2010

Limited new Zinfandel release from Carlisle! 90 Points Robert Parker: "The 2010 Zinfandel Monte Rosso Vineyard is sweeter, ripe and richer than the Bedrock Vineyard Zinfandel. This is a decidedly exuberant wine bursting with black cherries, plums, licorice, tar and smoke. With a little more polish, the 2010 might merit a higher score. The field blend is 96% Zinfandel and 4% Grand Noir, from a site planted in 1886. Anticipated maturity: 2015-2022.....This is a fabulous set of wines from Mike Officer and Carlisle. Best of all, the wines remain very reasonably priced considering the quality and passion that goes into the bottle. Along with Morgan Twain-Peterson of Bedrock, Mike Officer is focused on seeking out the finest old-vine sites in California, which have either been neglected over the years, or are being bought by large-scale wineries who have little interest in discovering the quirks of these very old vineyards, most of which are planted with field blends that truly harken back to another era. The wines are made with indigenous yeasts and aged in French oak barrels, usually in the 20-30% range. I tasted all of the 2010s from barrel the day before they were scheduled to be moved into tank."

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