Color: Darker garnet with purple highlights
Nose: Darker and deeper than the appellation-wide version, this has some great black fruit with some blue on top. Still seems young, but has some great spice and cracked black pepper.
Palate: Quite smooth again, but with more grip than the DCV wine. Good fruit from the nose combines with some still-integrating oak and adds some heart to the big black pepper. Good.
1999 Quivira Vineyards Zinfandel Wine Creek Ranch 750ml
Stewed black cherry, plum, herb and cocoa flavors have a slightly musty edge and a velvety texture, with soft, round tannins. Drink now through 2004. 397 cases made. Wine Spectator. A Zinfandel wine from California in USA. 1999 Quivira Vineyards Zinfandel Wine Creek Ranch 750ml
Quivira 2005 Zinfandel Dry Creek Valley Anderson Ranch
WE 90pts. - Winemaker Notes - This vineyard-designate Zinfandel shows very dark purple-blue color with aromas of candied plum, ripe blackberries and cherries jubilee. The palate exudes ripe black cherries, raspberries...
Quivira 2005 Zinfandel Dry Creek Valley
CG 90pts. - According to the Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wines: 10% Petite Sirah. Bright berries, briar and wisps of pepper and rich earth show in the nicely concentrated, slightly juicy aromas of this well-focused young Zinfandel, and fruit takes the lead in the wine's lightly woodsy, very solidly varietal ...
