I picked up a bottle of this today for $12.99. It is a 13.5% Alcohol red Zin from St. Helena. Has anyone had this recently or any other reds from this winery? This will be my first time trying a wine from this producer. TIA

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Intense and deeply concentrated, with Ripe, dark berry fruit , blackberry , bing cherry and aromatic herbal spiciness aromas. Full bodied , with big rich fleshy flavors show rich fruit extract with soft tannins.. and a moderatly long finish ( 30 second )

a real winner and showing nicely , i have two left, tasted 3 so far in 6 month intervals with exact cloned notes

i give it a 91 as far a showy zins are concerned

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oppps sorry wrong notes ,that was the 1997 Beaulieu Vineyard Zinfandel Napa notes
the St. Helena threw me off

here is
1997 Buehler Napa Valley Zinfandel

medium-full bodied , well ripened showing lots of fruit with ripe black cherry, wild berries , plumand currant against clay, loam and chocolate. moderate finish firm tannins

too much earth for me i like fruity jammy zins not clay like

nose wasnt what i expected
some what not very jammy

rate 84

John Buehler, Sr. and his son, John, began the renovation of the property that would become Buehler Vineyards in 1971. Located six miles east of St. Helena and nestled in the mountains above Conn Valley, Buehler Vineyards encompasses some 300 acres of Napa Valley hillside terrain. After a quarter of a century of growing grapes and over 20 years of winemaking from those vines, their focus remains on varietals that are best suited to this site: Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel.

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