The Turley 2003 zinfandel is yet another remarkable wine from Turley Cellars. The Turley 2003 Zinfandel has received stunning reviews by the wine experts. As an example the Turley 2003 Zinfandel received a 9.0 rating out of 10 points at the annual ZAP festival.

Referred to as "The Zin Masters" Owner Larry Turley and winemaker Ehren Jordan are making some tof the best Zinfandels in California form Napa Valley vineyards. It was their groundbreaking style, as envisioned and executed by Larry's sister, consultant Helen Turley. Her winemaking credo of emphasizing maximum ripeness is now considered gospel by many, but the first Turley Zinfandel had unprecedented richness and concentration. Other California producers had access to old-vine Zinfandel, yet no winery made such flamboyant wines. The Turley 2003 Zinfandel is a fabulous wine.

Helen Turley stopped consulting for her brother after the 1995 vintage. That had always been the intention, Larry explains, because Helen had a growing roster of consulting clients as well as her own start-up winery, Marcassin, in Sonoma. And she still has a hand in making Zinfandel, a wine she admires, working with the old vineyards owned by one of her clients, Martinelli.

The Turley wines are every bit as good under winemaker Ehren Jordan, 37, who came aboard in 1994. Turley is as proud as ever to be the premier Zinfandel estate in Cabernet country. Says the forthright vintner: "We feel in general that Cabernet people drink the label, and Zin lovers drink the wine."

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