2010 Schoilum Project Arrows of Apollo

WINE TALK
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Imagine if you will an experience where all you know is domestic Syrah; beautiful well-made wines from Arnot-Roberts, SQN, Cayuse, Bedrock, Carlisle, Saxum et al. Now you get transported to Tain l’Hermitage and you immerse yourself in those wines for the first time. It is startling and welcomed. Now make believe Northern Rhone has grown Zinfandel instead of Syrah for the past 400-500 years.

This wine tastes a bit like that Zinfandel might.

Saline and Zinberry in the nose, upfront fruit in the attack that’s not overly sweet or dense, this wine is its finish - which is lengthy and building following the swallow.

Along with 07 Radio Coteau Von Weidlich perhaps the most surprising Zin we have enjoyed the past decade.
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Loved that wine on release. I need to check in on it.

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Mel recalls tasting it from barrel but I don’t. I am hiding some remaining bottles later today but will enjoy one more sometime later this summer.

4

Bought too little of this!

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I think that is a big club.

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It this the zin with the slight raisiny notes to it and the really chewy texture that is reminiscent of Amarone? I think we tasted it with Abe when he brought barrel samples to NY but we forgot to order it. I know I don’t have any. Too bad. :frowning:

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This wine is Zinfandel, from Mead Ranch on Atlas Peak.

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But did it have a raisin-like Amarone component to it? Abe had one wine like that but somehow we ended up not buying it.

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Not even a whiff last night.