2004, 2005 Grgich Zinfandel

[andrawes76]

To my surprise, I found Grgich's zinfandel too young to drink. Correct me if I am wrong, but since its an organically produced zin, its earthy and shows minerality that I enjoy now, but feel like it would improve with 2-4 years in the bottle. Not as fruit forward as the other Cali zins out there, and certainly more tannic complexity. I busted out an 04 in comparison and found it to be well balanced and tannins that have smoothed out, ripe fruit, pepper and a bite of wood!

[TheEngineer]

Well I'm glad you think so. I've got some 04's that I've not started on yet. I was worried that due to its light density that it would not be a long termer.

[winoweenie]

The mity Mike makes some long term juice. Haven't had any of his newer zins but thru the late 70s and 80s' he made some really classy bottlings. Another of the old-timers that gets very little press is Bernie Portet who made some killer zins in the 70s at Clos du Val. WW