Big brick, as one would assume, but shockingly vibrant in the nose for a wine of this caliber at this age. Don’t get me wrong, it’s flabby and banana and fruit headed far towards prune and ripe fig, but I honestly expected a complete wasteland of fruit from this label at this age. A little briar, a little sage and honey, and a lot of flabby post-coital dreariness, nutty and sweaty, an over-powering burnt flab showing Paso’s true colors–something that is hid in youthfullness by sweet over-wraughtness and sheer alcohol, but comes back to bite you in the ASS with a few years. Dull asphalt and burnt rubber on the palate. Spicy to a certain extent–but something I will probably chalk up to alcohol rather than finesse. Old book and soggy, pruny rocking-chair, fruit a sullied affair, the alcohol burn now NOT invigorating, now dragging what little is left down into nothingness. Broken, shredded, tired tree, a buttery acid in cohorts with the burn, this cheap darling was not designed for this age and I’m actually fairly surprised it held on this well. 2008 #PEACHYCANYON #Zinfandel ‘Incredible Red’ #PasoRobles 13.9 (at Peachy Canyon Winery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9noh_Bn2BJ/?igshid=19nyyq9thd8c2
