Textbook Dry Creek Zin. The wine is dry, ripe and tannic, with briary, wild raspberry and cherry flavors and an earthy herb quality with suggestions of espresso, thyme, lavender, soy, balsamic and smoky leather. It’s one of the most elegant Zins out there, although it never loses Zin’s basically rustic nature.——S.H.(2/1/2007)—— 90