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Cline 1998 Live Oak Vineyard Zinfandel (Contra Costa County)
- $28
There’s a lovely sweetness to the fruit, which tastes like ripe, just-picked blackberries. Old vines, 100+ years, deliver sweet, supple, sexy fruit. The wine has very dry tannins, and it might profit from some blending, but with a vineyard this special you have to admire the single-vineyard approach.
— P.G.
(3/1/2001)
Cline 1998 Big Break Vineyard Zinfandel (Contra Costa County)
- $28
A blast of spice, mint, bramble and pepper explodes from the glass. The wine is dense, dark, deep and mysterious; the flavors pungent, penetrating and persistent. Tannic, layered with herbs and spices, powered with big, punchy fruit. This is classic Cline.
— P.G.
(3/1/2001)
Cline 1997 Live Oak Vineyard Zinfandel (Contra Costa County)
- $28
From the Zinmaster Cline brothers comes a ripe, elegant beauty. Packed with raspberry, dark chocolate, tobacco, nutmeg, clove, and a kiss of vanilla-scented oak, it’s complex and lush. Very dry, very strong and very interesting.
— S.H.
(5/1/2000)
Cline 1997 Small Berry Mourvèdre (Contra Costa County)
- $24
Very rich chocolate, plum and allspice aromas, like a pudding. Classy. From low-yielding old vines, and it shows in the intensity and density. Deft winemaking keeps it from being ponderous. Really alive and fresh; try with braised lamb shank and wild mushrooms.
— S.H.
(10/1/1999)
Cline 2006 Zinfandel (Sonoma Valley)
- Editors' Choice
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- $20
Great price for a Zin of this purity and varietal truth. Dry and medium-bodied, but sweet in fruit, it shows wonderful flavors of wild forest blackberries, with complications from black pepper, orange peel, anise and Asian spices. The texture is sheer velvet. Best now and through 2010.
— S.H.
(9/1/2009)
Cline 2000 Syrah (Carneros)
- $22
Smells great, bursting with smoky oak, black cherry, dark chocolate, herb and truffle aromas that make your mouth water. The flavors are less flamboyant, though, wrapped in dusty, sticky tannins that coat the palate. Underneath is a deep core of cherry fruit.
— S.H.
(12/1/2002)
Cline 2008 Sonoma Estate Syrah (Los Carneros)
- Editors' Choice
- Online Exclusive
- $20
Impressive for its depth and deliciousness. The grapes are from Cline’s estate on the Sonoma side of the Carneros district. The wine is dry, full-bodied and tannic, although you can drink it now. It’s very rich in blackberries, currants, mushu plum sauce, grilled beef and smoky sandalwood, and seems at its best now.
— S.H.
(2/1/2012)
Cline 2004 Ancient Vines Zinfandel (California)
- $18
From vineyards in Lodi and Contra Costa County, an enormously enjoyable Zin that shows its hot climate origins, but maintains balance and integrity. The cassis, cherry, chocolate and oatmeal-raisin cookie flavors finish in a swirl of acidity and dusty tannins.
— S.H.
(11/1/2005)
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