1999 Turley "Pringle Family" Howell Mountain Zinfandel

1999 Turley "Pringle Family" Howell Mountain Zinfandel SKU #997420

$59.99

RP 96

ST 92-94

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Professional Reviews

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
96
Readers may remember the tannic and austere Zinfandels produced under the Lamborn Family Vineyard label. This vineyard is now owned by the Pringle family, and Turley Cellars produces a Pringle Family Vineyard Zinfandel. The awesome 1999, which exhibits a Hermitage-like floral, blackberry liqueur, and raspberry-scented bouquet, is as elegant as a wine with 16.1% alcohol can be. Rich and sweet (from extract and glycerin, not sugar), with awesome presence on the palate as well as underlying notes of liquid minerals, jammy black fruit and pepper...This is amazing stuff!

(10/2001)
Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar
92-94
Medium ruby. Highly aromatic nose of blackberry, licorice, maple syrup and cracked pepper. Very intense, quintessential Howell Mountain flavors of briary dark berries and pepper, complicated by an exotic suggestion of orange peel. Sappy, focused and delicious. Very long on the palate, with tannins in balance with the wine fruit.

(06/2001)

K&L Notes

Turley Wine Cellars makes thirty-four wines, the vast majority of which are single vineyard designate Zinfandels and Petite Syrahs. By focusing on old vine vineyards in particular, Turley aims to both create and preserve California’s unique winemaking culture. All of the vineyards are either certified organic by California Certified Organic Farmers or somewhere in the process, and they use all natural yeasts in the fermentations.