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Zinfandel - Mancini Ranch

Zinfandel - Mancini Ranch Wine Details
Price: $25.00 per bottle

Description: I thought it would be very difficult to follow up the 1998 Mancini, a wine that definitely wasn’t for wimps. (Doesn’t another winery market their wines that way? Or was it “no wimpy wines”?). While this wine isn’t the least bit wimpy, the vineyard has learned a few manners. The crop size was similar to that in 1998 but since the spring weather was much more cooperative, we didn’t have to do as much thinning to remove un-ripe fruit. Black purple color. Nose of black currants, black raspberry, pepper and flowers. In the mouth it is quite expansive with flavors of a potpourri of black berries. Quite youthful, it is definitely showing




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