2006 Outpost Zinfandel and 2006 Casa Nuestra Tinto Classico

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  • 2006 Casa Nuestra Tinto Classico - USA, California, Napa Valley, Oakville (7/29/2009)
    Rustic and earthy with dark ripe plum, tar, bacon, cedar, graphite, and black licorice. Unique field blend that for lack of a better comparison, reminds me of something I might find in an Italian village. (87 pts.)
  • 2006 Outpost Zinfandel - USA, California, Napa Valley, Howell Mountain (7/28/2009)
    I’m not normally one to give a tasting note based on a wine on Day 2 after opening, but this time, that’s how it worked out. To my benefit. Yesterday the wine was unexciting: big boysenberry syrup fruit and some tart acidity but reticent on showing anything else. Today, it is showing much better. The boysenberry has been tamed to a more integrated package with some nice white pepper, freshly tanned leather, and brambly forest floor. Hold this wine until 2011 and enjoy a really good, well-balanced Zin that doesn’t overwhelm its company at the table. (90 pts.)

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I feel most quality, young wines, often show better on night two, and it is valuble to note, in terms of getting an impression of how the wine will hold up over time, IMHO.