Turley
San Luis Obispo County, California
Paso Robles
Ueberroth Vineyard
Zinfandel
2010
$48.00
15.8%
The core remains purple but not the glowing, saturated sort of coloration, very broad rims of crimson to rust red, still doesn’t look more than just into middle age. Big nose, falls short of blowzy, ground coffee to cocoa crisp show the oak still doing its thing, the blueberry, raspberry to boysenberry fruit scents have firmed up in the years since release, orange pekoe tea leaf and potpourri, does suffer from some alcoholic heat. In the mouth it is medium-bodied and uses its syrupy texture to fill crevices and soothe the palate. Nice tang to the blueberry, boysenberry fruit, even some apple bite. The oak toast there but swallowed in large part by the fruit. Iodine, salt nuances help it find balance. The orange citrus base shifting into white grapefruit. The eucalyptus element has receded. If you can forgive the heat in the nose it’s drinking nicely, albeit arguably a shade behind when it was freshly born.
89 points