Zinfandel Wines

The 2010 vintage of Heritage Zinfandel presents an excellent cool vintage aroma profile of blueberry, red currants, earthy dustiness and mineral nuances. The low alcohol nature of this wine shines through immediately with silky smooth tannins an...

Garnet in color, Clos Du Val’s 2010 Zinfandel offers a bouquet of spice, cinnamon and red fruit. This is a rich, intense Zinfandel characterized by explosive fruit flavors. The palate delivers notes of dried fruit, jam and spice with a rich mi...

Black St Peters might sound a bit like a rogue monk, but it's actually the name Zinfandel was given in the mid-1800s when it was orginially sold out of a nursery on Long Island. It is a prominent variety in the USA, but it has found its way here t...

Our Diamond Collection Zinfandel is crafted by blending fruit from several different appellations, which feature different clone selections, soil types and cultivation methods. We use both hot and cool climate Paso Robles fruit, including some f...

Appearance: Dark crimson. Nose: Ripe plums with chocolate, allspice, maraschino cherries, juniper berries and aged tobacco. Palate: Ripe mulberry, rhubarb and summer pudding with cinnamon, dark chocolate and fl eshy plums. The wine is opulent ...

Zinfandel seems to have found a home in Western Australia, and this one will certainly deliver bang for your buck. Like most zinfandels, it has a good whack of alcohol, 17% to be exact, so it's a monster! However, it is jam-packed full of ripe red...

What else would Zinful make but Zinfandel. They have put all their eggs in one basket with this grape variety that has cult status in the USA, but winemaker, Mark Messenger, has been making it for a couple of decades, so he should know 'Zinny' ins...

Zinfandel and Shiraz? Now here is a mixed dozen with a difference comprising 12 wines from the relatively unknown (but promising) Geographe region in WA. What makes these two interesting was just how chunky and fruit driven this pair is, like two ...

Luscious. That's the best way to describe this Zinfandel, a massive berry pie of a wine draped in so much luxurious fruit that you could almost swim in it (might be a boozy swim though). Pick this wine if you like your reds full but generous, s...

Deepish red/purple colour. Chaffy, porty, straw-like and raisiny aromas; high alcohol. Fumey, somewhat jammy/porty and tannic. Gutsy and grippy. Massive tannins, big, big wine. No pretence to elegance, but certainly has grunt.

Here is one for the zinophiles. Aromas of raspberry confectionary and brambly plummy dark chocolate. There is a more than hint of the high alcohol which tends to come with this variety. The balance however is very good the fruit weight and intensi...

Mark 'Mess' Messenger's Zin vies with Cape Mentelle for best in the country every year and wins on account of name, let alone price (half!). Well crafted and textural, with layers of mixed spice, rhubarb, plums and fruit cake taming 15% alcohol.

Whoa! Talk about sweet and fruity! This is like liquid sultana juice - with some dusty red earth thrown in. Seriously, it smells and tastes absolutely of raisined grapes, though its saving grace is that it has a dry, tannic, almost liquoricey fini...

We're tempted to label this a 'big red' and roll out all the appropriate adjectives, except that there's something else here too - crikey, this is pretty darn good! Sure, there's a lot of warm, sweet-fruited, syrupy flavour, but there's a savoury-...

This did well in the recent Marananga Wine Show and delivers a lovely red plum, tea cake, spice and sweetly fragrant dried grape aromas; really charming wine. The palate is ripe and juicy, with musky tannins rolling through to deliver red plum fru...

Light crimson-purple; the sweet berry bouquet leads into an array of spicy red and black fruits on a medium-bodied palate, the tannins fine; one assumes the zinfandel is responsible for the elevated alcohol, which doesn't spoil the wine.

By chance, tasted between the two massive pillars of the '09 and '10 Cape Mentelle Zinfandel, an unfair field. Lighter in body; despite its high alcohol, it does keep its varietal shape, cherry, spice and chocolate to the fore.

Expected colour development; floods the mouth with spicy, dark fruits, ground coffee, Christmas cake and vanillin oak; it comes as no surprise to find the winemaker is David Powell of Torbreck.

The light colour is common in Napa Valley zinfandel, and it does not mean there is insufficient flavour. It is simply strange that you say a 15.4% alcohol wine is light-bodied, for that is what it is, its red berry/ cherry fruit pleasantly incisive.