Wine details
| Name: | Turley Juvenile 2005 |
| Country: | United States |
| Region: | California |
| Winery: | Turley |
| Type: | Red wine |
| Grape: | Zinfandel |
| Vintage: | 2005 |
| Average rating: |  |
| Cost: |  |
| Added by: | squane |
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Tags: powerful alcoholic expressive brambly blackberry aromatic
Food pairing: A good cheeseburger--even take-away
Turley Zins for me have been a bit of a holy grail over the years. Initially, they were inaccessible due purely to demand like 49ers season tickets, but then became inaccessible due to cost as well, after the dot-com fiasco. Recently, by acquiring new properties such as Pesenti in Paso Robles, Turley have attempted to meet demand for their wines by offering lower-quality output under their respectable label. Juveniles 2005 is nothing but the result of newly planted vineyards subject to an exaggerated growing season and whose fruit was over-oaked to compensate for the lack of complexity these young vines could produce. As such, it is woody, overly-alcoholic, but still offers a glimmer at to what Ehron Jordan can produce when he has killer grapes that don't require viticultural sleight-of-hand to compensate for.
