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Easton 2000 Zinfandel (Shenandoah Valley (CA))
- Editors' Choice
- Online Exclusive
- $30
One of the best Zins of the year, a near perfect refinement of Sierra Foothills Zin. Estate bottled, it’s incredibly soft, rich, and delicious. Caresses the palate with sumptuous blueberry, black cherry, fig, pepper, and white chocolate flavors. Hard to believe it has 15.2 percent alcohol because it’s so balanced. Addictive stuff.
— S.H.
(9/1/2003)
Easton 2009 Monarch Mine Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc (Sierra Foothills)
- $18
A Sierra Foothills Sauvignon Blanc with incredibly inviting aromatics of grass, grapefruit and melon that evolves into a delicious texture that’s light, dry and yet still somehow rich with crisp acidity. So good for summer and fall.
— V.B.
(9/1/2011)
Easton 2010 Monarch Mine Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc (Sierra Foothills)
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- $18
This crisp white is inviting and dry, with aromas of citrus, fig and fennel. Reminiscent of a fine Sancerre, it’s finely structured, steely and still lushly textured and full enough in the mouth to enjoy with seafood, a creamy goat cheese salad or entirely on its own.
— V.B.
(6/1/2012)
Easton 2007 Estate Bottled Zinfandel (Shenandoah Valley (CA))
- $32
A sophisticated, swanky Zinfandel, although it’s gentle and delicious enough to appeal to anybody who likes a full-bodied red wine. Floods the mouth with blackberry, cherry, chocolate, bacon, pepper and charred barrel flavors that go on and on. Drink this beautiful Zin with steaks, chops, roasts and hard cheeses.
— S.H.
(5/1/2010)
Easton 2004 Estate Bottled Zinfandel (Shenandoah Valley (CA))
- $30
I like this wine even though it has overripe raisin flavors, which usually turn me off. In this case, it’s like the raisins are part of a rum-soaked Christmas fruit cake, a piquant flavor along with blackberries, cherries, tangerines, pineapples and apricots. Soft and intricate, this is a special wine that’s best now and for a couple more years.
— S.H.
(6/1/2007)
Easton 1999 Zinfandel (Fiddletown)
- $25
Here’s a wine that defines a distinct style of Sierra Foothills Zin, namely, the wild, brambly kind that seduces with sheer power and exuberance. It’s a mouthpunch of blueberry, boysenberry and other berry flavors, wrapped in just enough tannins and acids to provide balance. There’s something woolly about it, especially in the peppery finish.
— S.H.
(3/1/2002)
Easton 2008 Cooper Ranch Barbera (Shenandoah Valley (CA))
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- $24
With a prettier nose than Easton’s smaller-production Monarch Mine Vineyard Barbera, this one from the Shenandoah’s Cooper Ranch has violets and red cherry and a teasing tartness on the finish, with fine texture and balance throughout. Juicy, well-made and exhibiting its time spent in oak
— V.B.
(9/1/2011)
Easton 2006 Zinfandel (Amador County)
- Best Buy
- $15
Easton’s basic Zin offers plenty of delicious pleasure. It’s a dry, smoothly tannic wine, packed with wild blackberry, mulberry, mocha and (believe it or not) ollallieberry flavors, which perhaps suggests a certain rural, old-fashioned quality. The wine is also superspicy in white pepper and nutmeg. Great value.
— S.H.
(5/1/2008)
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