Proprietor Nils Venge has fashioned one of the richest and most intense Zinfandels of the vintage. The color is an opaque black/plum. The nose offers smashingly lavish aromas of toasty oak and black fruits. Extremely rich and full-bodied, but without any evidence of a late harvest wine (i.e., a pruny, raisiny character), this pure, beautifully-textured wine possesses layers of black-raspberry fruit as well as copious quantities of glycerin, all nicely buttressed by adequate acidity. It is a compellingly rich, blockbuster-styled Zinfandel to drink over the next decade.Tel. (707) 944-1305