Seghesio, Cortina Zinfandel, Dry Creek Valley

Seghesio · California › Dry Creek Valley › United States of America

Red · Zinfandel

Critics

92 /100

Reviews

professional

Vintages

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Community Reviews

Reviews

92.0

Avg Score

Highest

Vibrant fruit without being jammy. big red taste with good lingering taste. Not sure it will get any better. Wine Spectators rating of 94 was a good call. I wish I had 6 more bottles to hold until there 2029 upper range.

2017 vintage

Drinking very well right now and it is everything I want in a Zin. Ripe red and black fruits, without being Jamy and still fresh. Herbal notes including sage, lavender, and thyme. Tannins are prominent, yet in balance, and gives way to a building finish that is slightly drying and tying back into the black fruit. Best Cortona I've had.

2017 vintage

Very smooth , nice fruit, the lingering taste was less smooth than the 2016 we drank with it. Very good combination with spicey pork

2017 vintage

This bottle is ready to drink and don’t rush it. It was so much better about 2 hours after it was opened and got better as we sipped.

2017 vintage

Drink now

2017 vintage

Spectacular. Well aged cherry flavors and silky tannins make this absolutely delicious in the prime of the drinking window. But... I'm not sure how much better it will get with aging. I think it will survive just fine until 2029, but I really do believe it is downhill from here (2024). I say, enjoy now!

2017 vintage

Decant 30min

2017 vintage

Based on this bottle, this wine may be coming around to what I expect from a Cortina. The flavors seem more true and balanced. We'll see.

2017 vintage

big and juicy red fruit. no signs of the higher ABV. drinking really well right now

2017 vintage

Last bottle. All prior bottles were terrific. This one was just so-so. All of the bottles were shipped to me together and stored in the same place. Also, had a bottle earlier this year that was very good. So, I am confused. Wine is not a game of perfect.

2017 vintage

This wine needs time to oxidize. After only a few minutes this wine was nice but uninteresting. Blackberry, pepper, fine tannins, balanced acidity. The second day was much more complex with a comples array of sage, vanilla, cinnamon, black petter, moss, and leather.

2017 vintage

Identical to a bottle a year ago. Drinking very well. The bottle was open for about two hours before dinner.

2017 vintage

Very smooth. Not harsh for a Zinfandel. Blackberry tones

2017 vintage

We continued the zin trend last night with meatloaf and mashed potatos (had 2019 ridge geyserville thursday). With this Seghesio Cortina. Last minute choice so Pop n Pour. More Turley than Ridge in "style" very aromatic from the get go, elegant, red fruit (some underlying blue fruit), briary, come cedar, low tanins, super easy drinker, 15.5% so big wine, but enough acid (a tough ask for 2017s) to keep it balanced. Even more giving an hour later sipping after dinner. …

2017 vintage

This bottle was from a different lot from the winery, and it struck me just like my previous Tasting Note. It was not as tasty, and it did not have as good balance as expected. To add insult to injury, it set me back 50% more.

2017 vintage

Nice and peppery. Quite dry. Cough drop gone.

2017 vintage

Wife: 94-95

2017 vintage

4.3p Blackberries. Amazong

2017 vintage

Phenomenal red that is mellow. Not too strong

2017 vintage

The bottle was open for 2 hours. Another spectacular bottle.

2017 vintage

As good as a zin can get.

2017 vintage

Finally drinking with amazing fruit!

2017 vintage

Blackberry, cherry, vanilla, pepper

2017 vintage

Not tasted yet :)

2017 vintage

To me '17 seems to be off of the Seghesio standard. Cortina has been our historic favorite, but this one does not seem up to the task. Good fruit flavors but they were all mushed together and very little briariness. We have 9 bottles so we'll see if it was just this bottle.

2017 vintage