2021 Turley Buck Cobb vineyards

[Nicklasss]

In zinfandel, Turley is a bit of the opposite of Ridge Vineyards, but the two are actually complementary, like the two poles of a magnet.

This 2021 Turley ''Buck'' Cobb Vineyards is cherry red, with a ripe nose, red berries deposited in eucalyptus, gingerbread, light bbq spices, gummy candy raspberries, and when you look and concentrate a little , smoke/volcanic rock. On the palate, caressing and powerful, red berries, grapes, raspberry alcohol, beautiful presence, fresh, oak, and a little minerals from the soil. It is still of reasonable length and balanced despite 15.2% alcohol and no real structure or perceptible tannins. The volcanic character very present on the finish, with fruit and a medicinal side. Complex. I really like...Turley...as much as Ridge. The yin and the yang. Score of 92-93.

[William P]

Buck Cobb owned Karly before he retired and sold to Turley. He was fun person, bigger than life; a jet pilot, then a winegrower and winemaker. I'm glad they name the vineyard after him after the sale.

Hope all is well.

Bill

[Michael Malinoski]

My wife and I had a bottle of the 2020 at the bar at Troquet here in Boston quite recently and thought it was just right with the double cheeseburger. Gulpable, surprisingly accessible, yeah a smidge high on the alcohol but really smoothed out with the food. A really good quality to price ratio, I thought.
-Michael