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...I've mentioned that I like to let my zinfandels sit in my cellar for up to 5 years for bottle ageing.Here's an example:
I bought about a half case of 2006 Quivara zin at Costco for around $15 a bottle if I recall, back in 2008 when it was released. It was pretty good for the money, an everyday drinker, but nothing special.
My father in law was the CFO for a division of the drug company, Smith-Kline-French, now Beecham, back in Philadelphia where my wife grew up. He worked for the CEO Henry Wendt. When Henry retired in the 1980s he moved to California and bought the Quivara winery, in Sonoma on Dry Creek Road across the street from Rafanelli, one of my favorites.
About every 6 mnths or so, I pull a bottle out and drink it.
The one I had a month or so ago was better than the others, showing me it was coming into it's own, suprisingly.
Then last night I opened another one. It was spectacular, well balanced with a lot of nice fruit at the center, just the way I like them. Even my wife liked it.
Just goes to show what a few years of bottle age can do.
Edits: 05/21/11Follow Ups:
Not a big fan of aging zins, but today I opened a bottle of '09 Turley Howell Mountain. A bit tart so it might benefit from some age.
My friend who buys the Turleys I refuse to pay for, opened '08 Hayne Vineyard Petite Syrah. I refuse to pay $75 for a Petite Syrah and I was proven correct. It was very nice, but still didn't have the heft or complexity to justify the cost. Luckily he didn't remember what he paid for it and could care less. He and his wife really enjoyed it.
It's all relative.
I have been a Zin fan since my dad gave me a bronze medal winner, no gold, from the early 70s. In 1971 I worked for a landscape architect in temecula ca and we installed an irrigation system for 80 acres of petite syrah which at that time not only had I not heard of it before, they were used only as a blending grape. Years later I saw a bottled petite and was very surprised.
...Saturday night with people over I opened a couple of older bottles.
2005 Turley Old Vines - excellent
2003 - Silver Oak Napa - a little too long in the bottle - too smoothed out, but ok with the steak.
...and Ridge, especially, would be two bigger zins I would recommend aging.
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