TURLEY - Pesenti Vineyard Zinfandel Paso Robles - 2019

TURLEY

Pesenti Vineyard Zinfandel Paso Robles 2019

- 93 points -

Jewel ruby colour, pale and glinting. Expressive and intense aromas of red, black and blue fruit – a true Zinfandel cornucopia, heady with rose petal, incense, raspberry cane and gingerbread. The palate is broad, creamy, all-encompassing, massive. Beautiful compote fruit flavours marry with coffee oak notes. Dark, smooth, viscous and moreish, this is a truly serious wine. It's whopping nearly 16% alcohol is checked, perhaps surprisingly, by the sheer fruit content and retained acidity which ensures freshness amid the intensity. I'd open and enjoy it now and over the next decade. It may have the structure to hold but there’s something intensely engaging about the wine right now, in its full, youthful throttle.

Clare Tooley MW, October 2021