This outstanding wine (made from a 110-year old vineyard) offers an impressively pigmented ruby/purple color, and sweet, intense black cherry liqueur-like notes in the penetrating bouquet. As the wine sits in the glass, minerals, pepper, spice, and coffee scents emerge. Rich, with sensational purity and flavor intensity, this full-bodied, multi-layered wine coats the palate, and has a 30+ second finish. Drink it over the next 5-7 years. This reliable winery has produced four fine 1996 Zinfandels. They possess some of the most saturated ruby/purple colors of the vintage, as well as big, muscular, full-bodied personalities. Tel. (707) 935-4310