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Turley Wine Cellars, Zinfandel Pesenti Vineyard, 2023

Red Wine from California, United States
by Turley Wine Cellars
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Pesenti leaps from the glass, perhaps the most instantly recognizable Turley vineyard in a blind tasting. Gushing with brambly blackberry, blackcurrant and raspberry on the nose, with minerality and silky tannins on the palate. 

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Antonio Galloni

94 points

"The 2023 Zinfandel Pesenti Vineyard is a classic Paso Robles Zinfandel. It emerges from a site planted in 1923. Inky dark fruit, chocolate, new leather, licorice and cloves blast across the palate. A wine of substance and forward, luscious fruit, the 2023 is alluring from start to finish."

Wine Spectator

93 points

"Dark and brambly, with brooding plum and blackberry flavors accented by licorice, clove and smoked pepper tones as this builds grip toward medium-grained tannins. Drink now through 2035."

More about Turley Wine Cellars

To get your head around Zinfandel, you need to drink Turley, and we'd go further: you need to drink Turley to get your head around California, full stop. Few wineries have done more to find, farm and bottle the state's old vines, many of them planted in the late 1800s.

Larry Turley, a former emergency-room physician and co-founder of Frog's Leap, started Turley Wine Cellars in Napa in 1993. Tegan Passalacqua, one of the most influential figures in California's new wave, has led the winemaking since the early 2000s, and Larry's daughter Christina joined full-time in 2010. Today Turley makes around 50 wines from more than 50 vineyards up and down the state, from Napa and Alexander Valley to Lodi and Paso Robles, where the family also has a winery in Templeton.

The vineyards are organically farmed, and fermentations rely on native yeasts alone. The focus is old-vine Zinfandel and Petite Syrah, alongside rarities like Cinsault from the Bechthold vineyard in Lodi.

Juvenile is the place to start: Zinfandel from younger vines, including replantings in some of Turley's old-vine sites, the old vines of tomorrow. It shows the bright, zesty acidity that made Zinfandel prized in California before Prohibition. From there, the single-vineyard bottlings, like Dusi, Ueberroth and Pesenti, are a tour of California terroir.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Zinfandel

  • Vintage

    2023

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Sustainable

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Full Bodied

Flatiron's Take

From the Importer

What Skurnik Wines has to say about this wine:

100% Zinfandel

Pesenti Vineyard in Willow Creek sub-AVA of Paso Robles AVA

Ancient marine calcareous soils

Planted in 1922-1924

Head-trained, dry-farmed, and hand-harvested

Aged 15 months in 80% French oak and 20% American oak (20% new)

Bottled unfined and unfiltered

15.6% abv

Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Grilled beef steaks, Braised lamb, Pepper-crusted meat, BBQ ribs, Wild boar

Tasting Profile

Turley Wine Cellars Zinfandel Pesenti Vineyard offers dark cherry, blackberry, and plum aromas with spice and pepper. Full-bodied with ripe tannins and concentrated flavors; the finish is warm and complex with dark fruit persistence.

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