Rutherglen Estates Renaissance Zinfandel 2006 Tuesday, Jul 31 2007
Tasting Notes and Australia and Rutherglen and Variety and Red and other reds
Every year a bunch of non wine industry mates, Wendy and myself have a Zin Din. A bit of special planning went into this years. Heather arranged for a colleague to bring back a Zin from Croatia, I brought some back from the USA, Heather found something special in Rutherglen, Monsieur l’Eveque brought one from Langhorne Creek and I obtained one via mail order, Wood Park. Good Zin needs ripeness and a warm climate and it seems to produce the best fruit when dry grown and at lower cropping levels. This wine is, to quote Gary, from the Top End Big Pants range made by Rutherglen Estates. It had the right mix of fruit aromas and a lovely fruit concentration. It also has young estery/confection bits associated with a relatively young red wine. Very clean with nice floral aromas. The palate has a bit of licorice and a bit of bacon with great raspberry flavours. It seems to have relatively high acid but it should last a few years as it fills out. We had it with slow cooked lamb and it was a great match.
Tasted : Jul07
Alcohol : 14.5%
Price : $32
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2007 - 2010+
Source : Cellar Door
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2 Responses to “Rutherglen Estates Renaissance Zinfandel 2006”
August 1st, 2007 at 8:42 am
I have had this and have a sample bottle to review. They have done a good job I reckon.
GW
August 1st, 2007 at 8:52 am
Je suis d’accord. We were all most impressed. It will be even better in 6 to 12 months time. But can you add a country tab for Croatia please? ie for the next Zin.