Healdsburg Ranches 2009 North Coast Zinfandel 12-Pack
$99.99 $̶1̶5̶9̶.̶0̶0̶ 37% off List Price
2009 Healdsburg Ranches North Coast Zinfandel

Previous offer:
3/3/13

Cab I'd be in Zin is a no go

fredrinaldi wrote:Cab I'd be in Zin is a no go

Amen

ignoredobsessional wrote:Amen

Ditto!!

would have split a 6 pack with someone, but a 12 pack, not at this point.

Seems like a perfect daily drinker, but haven't had it so I don't really know.

I don't often drink zin....but when I do....I prefer old vine....

I went digging through previous discussions... one or two people basically said they liked it, but no tasting notes at all.

Seems like a good deal on a case of Zin, but I find it hard to pull the trigger on a full case without having at least some idea of what to expect.

I want to bite that's a lot of wine for someone who has no point of reference. Anyone have some notes?

Arista07 wrote:I want to bite that's a lot of wine for someone who has no point of reference. Anyone have some notes?

I bought this in the last offer and finished a bottle the other night. Fruit (deep berry) and leather with pepper on the back end. A little 'thin'. If it were beer it would be a session beer. Perfectly serviceable nothing special but totally drinkable for a no special occasion night. Won't buy again but totally fine low priced zin.

Just ordered, although I was surprised to see a sales tax...since when did we start getting taxed on these Woots?

Arista07 wrote:I want to bite that's a lot of wine for someone who has no point of reference. Anyone have some notes?

Here ya go boys and girls. someone has done a very good job writing this up... soft tannins? Soft and smooth wine? not really for me. I like my wines bolder. Cab is the king for me. but bordeaux is probably the best as far as blends go.

http://thewinespies.com/directory/wine/1948

Arista07 wrote:I want to bite that's a lot of wine for someone who has no point of reference. Anyone have some notes?

----> not sure how accurate this is, was linked at a wine shop. Different data when it comes to cases made points to that one of the two reviews is wrongly associated with the wine

http://www.scwinecompany.com/r/Red%20Wine/healdsburg-ranches-north-coast-zinfandel-2009

Wine Spectator

This is juicy and generic, but offers soft notes of cherry, sassafras and spice. Drink now. 4,800 cases made.
Score: 82. —Tim Fish, 2011.

Do not have a subscription - here is the link: http://www.winespectator.com/wine/detail/source/search/note_id/311154


Wine Enthusiast:
http://buyingguide.winemag.com/catalog/healdsburg-ranches-2009-zinfandel-sonoma-county

by Steve Heimoff
Here’s a good, fruity Zinfandel to drink with your barbecue, and the everyday price is right. It’s dry and tart in berries, cherries and spices, with Zin’s wild, briary personality.
— (12/1/2010) — 85

Their Cab is a good daily wine, not a Zin fan at all. time is running out on the woot off.
Leaving sunny calif. tomorrow to snowing K. C. Mo to see the daughters and G kids. Forecast snow all weekend, thank god for the warmth of Cab

garrowood, tewkewl and andreaserben thanks for the informative resources. Decided against buying; think I dodged a drunk bullet.

BuckeyeMama wrote:Just ordered, although I was surprised to see a sales tax...since when did we start getting taxed on these Woots?

For a long time - you only did not see it. The winery did it "secretly" and the price included the assumed average sales tax. Supposedly some folks got receipts with sales tax before in the box when they received the wine, it was just part of the total price.

Sales tax is usually required in this type of interstate commerce because wineries need to apply for a license in the state they want to ship to and a condition of getting the license is sales tax collection.

tewkewl wrote:Here ya go boys and girls. someone has done a very good job writing this up... soft tannins? Soft and smooth wine? not really for me. I like my wines bolder. Cab is the king for me. but bordeaux is probably the best as far as blends go.

http://thewinespies.com/directory/wine/1948

Didn't want to quote winespies' writeup since they sold the wine and thus are less impartial.

Specs given here: 13.5% alcohol, suggesting the style of Zin I like, not overripe and bombastic, but restrained and more elegant.

But Wine Spies, when they offered the exact same wine -- 2009 North Coast Zinfandel -- said 14.8%. Somebody's reading the wrong label.

The link to Wine Enthusiast was for the 2009 Zin (Sonoma County), a more specific designation than North Coast, and they listed 14.5%.

Somebody's being careless with the numbers.

I had yesterday the second bottle of this lot and it tasted just as poorly as the previous one. Notwithstanding the alcohol content, it's watery like the wash-out of a nearly empty barrel, and it doesn't taste or smell like zinfandel.