Enjoy this wine while you can as I don’t expect you’ll be seeing a lot or wine from Belvedere Winery on the shelves. Why? Because the Belvedere Winery is gone. Poof! It’s been replaced by the C. Donatiello Winery. The new winery is backed by Bill Hambrecht, the former owner of Belvedere.
I was lucky enough to find a bottle of the 2001 Belvedere Healdsburg Ranches Zinfandel still sitting on the shelf at a local wine shop and I scooped it up. I’d recommend you too scoop this up if you run across it. It’s a great Sonoma County Zinfandel for $15.
Cedar, blackberry, black cherry and mushroom make up the nose. The palate is slightly jammy with blackberry, black cherry and plum. There is also some mid-palate chocolate and lots of black pepper. The tannins are silky smooth.
Wine: Belvedere Healdsburg Ranches
Variety: Zinfandel
Vintage: 2001
Alcohol: 14.4%
Rating: 88
Price Paid: $14.98
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