2017 Carlisle Sonoma County Zinfandel

93JD

90-93VN

90RP

90WS

$29.99

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Jeb Dunnuck

Reviewed June 2019

While it was a difficult vintage for Zinfandel due to the heat, you wouldn’t know that by tasting these Zinfandels from Carlisle. The 2017 Zinfandel Sonoma County offers a beautiful sense of elegance and purity as well as pretty cherry fruits, violets, flowers, and spice. It’s not a heavyweight yet shines for its seamless texture, integrated acidity, and a great finish. It’s a steal at the price.

Professional Reviews

90-

Vinous

Review Date: 05/2019

The 2017 Zinfandel (Sonoma County) is pliant and super-expressive, not to mention incredibly delicious. A beam of bright acids gives the wine energy and a surprising amount of vitality as well. Medium in body and supremely gracious, the Sonoma Zinfandel over-delivers big time. The Sonoma County is built on a core of fruit from the Russian River Valley and Alexander Valley, plus touches of Rossi, Du Pratt and Dry Creek Zinfandels and drops of Two Acres Petite Sirah. More importantly, the 2017 is an absolutely gorgeous wine. It's as simple as that. (AG)

Wine Advocate

Review Date: 12/2019

The 2017 Zinfandel Sonoma County has a medium ruby-purple color and nose of peach, apricot, boysenberry and red cherry with a very spicy undercurrent plus notes of orange peel, dusty earth, dried flowers and raspberry. Medium-bodied, it's concentrated with lip-smacking acidity and grainy tannins, finishing long with warm fruit. (EB) 90+

Wine Spectator

Review Date: 06/2019

Youthful and jammed with fruit, this offers appealing blackberry and licorice flavors that build toward briary tannins. (TF)

Notes

Winemaker's Notes: "Our not-quite-so annual QPR champ is back! Using some wonderful century-old Russian River Valley Zin not far from Limerick Lane and some relatively young, 64-year-old Zinfandel from Alexander Valley as a base, we stole bits and pieces of our Rossi, DuPratt, and Dry Creek Zins along with a little Petite Sirah from Two Acres to create this delicious overachiever. Bottled unfined and unfiltered. Tasting Note: Medium to medium-dark ruby-garnet. Intense aromas of red cherries, clove, and a pleasing earthy note. Medium-bodied, flavors of cherry and baking spices build to a gently tannic finish. Given its price point, one might conclude that this wine is meant for early consumption. Not necessarily so! While it can certainly be enjoyed now, this wine has plenty of structure to age and develop gracefully. Hence, we’d recommend giving it another year or two in bottle and then enjoying through 2028."

Details

Origin	Monterey/Carmel Valley, California, United States
Type/Varietal	Zinfandel
Alcohol Content	15%
SKU	1406830