Carlisle, "Papera Ranch Vineyard" Zinfandel Russian River Valley 2021

96 points Jeb Dunnuck
"Pouring an inky youthful ruby, the 2021 Zinfandel Papera Ranch is ripe with lavender, ripe boysenberry, fig, melding spices, and wet stone. Full-bodied and opulent, it opens to a flood of ripe baked berries, with sweet earth, supple texture, and cocoa filling the palate. With a superb, long finish, I sense it will develop at a glacial pace. Drink 2025-2040."

95 points Wine Spectator
"Deeply structured yet agile and vibrant, with handsome flavors of black cherry and raspberry that take on dried fig, orange peel and brown spice accents as this builds richness toward medium-grained tannins. Drink now through 2035."
#24 in the Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines of 2024

95 points Vinous
" The 2021 Zinfandel Papera Ranch is a powerful wine. Swaths of tannin wrap around a core of red/purplish fruit. Savory, floral and earthy notes add quite a bit of character. This potent Russian River Zinfandel packs quite the punch. Time in the glass brings out the wine's natural breadth and resonance, much of that attributable to the 15% mixed blacks that includes a number of varieties that confer structure."

Vinous Reverie Notes
The Papera Vineyard planted back in 1934 by Celestino Papera, is consistently considered a grande dame of the Russian River Valley. Due to its cooler climate, the grapes tend to be picked in rounds, and roughly over a two week period. After each round of harvest, the grapes are put into a cold soak for 5 days. Then they are pressed into French oak, of which 25% is new. It is bottled unfined and unfiltered. Tasting Notes: Aromatically the wine lifts from the glass with notes of raspberry coulis, briar bushes, and a hint of fine tobacco. On the palate, the wine continued with notes of ripe raspberries, a touch of blood oranges, and a mouth-watering finish of acidity.