Howell Mountain Vineyards Zinfandel Beatty Ranch

Strong blueberry note, still somewhat tight structure, is giving more with a few hours air, some minerality, some herbs and iron poking through. Still seems like this would benefit from a few more years, though at the same time, always tough to tell whether more stuffing would show in the middle to round this all out into a more complete package.

Family Winemakers Tasting 2021, nose of black pepper, allspice, black cherry, and briar, on the palate, tasty, big body, mouth filling, subdued, needs 3 yfears to peak, long finish, $65.