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Wine Recommendation
Mazzocco Vineyards
2004 Zinfandel, Home Ranch, Estate(Dry Creek Valley)
2004 was a big, super-ripe vintage for Dry Creek Zin and it’s fascinating to see how different wineries dealt with it. (2003 was even more extreme, with as many “cooked” Zins as balanced once.) I think Mazzocco did a good job with their home ranch Zin in Dry Creek (their 2004 Stone Ranch bottling also merits a recommendation on this site). Winemaker Antoine Favero certainly captured the ripeness and fullness of the vintage, but he also brought the beautiful high tones and dry earth underlayer that make Dry Creek such a great place for Zin.
The aromas emphasize blackberry with some sweet black cherry high tones and that light foundation of dry earth. In your mouth the wine has a big body, rich chocolatey entry and a flood of fine tannin. You can feel the oak in the wine both texturally and in terms of how warmly it expands across your palate, but it finishes very nicely dry and understated (for Zin, that is!). A palate-pleasing wine that should behave very well at the table, either now or over the next three years.
Reviewed March 21, 2007 by Thom Elkjer.
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The Wine
Winery: Mazzocco Vineyards |
The Reviewer
Thom Elkjer
Thom Elkjer has been reviewing wines professionally for more than ten years. He has contributed to Wine Spectator and Wine Enthusiast, served as Wine Editor for Wine Country Living and is Wine Editor for WineCountry.Com. He also writes for newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and Europe and judges at major international wine competitions. |