Shocker of the year. Five spice and brown sugar with strawberry jam. Just amazing fruit for a high alcohol wine with this amount of age on it. Perfectly integrated and balanced, if not just a tad brownish in color. A truly spectacular example of California Zinfandel from the '70s that everyone we shared it with (and we were trying to keep it to ourselves...) was blown away by. Bought 2 of these at auction for twenty bucks each, I can't wait to drink the second one!
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Wow! What can I say. This wine is still going strong. Nice color, not too brown and still very showing a nice cherry red color. A 15.9% monster late harvest with 95% zin and 5% petite. A little hot but otherwise showing nice fruit.
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3/27/2014 - affordableCollector wrote: 92 Points
orange, brown, red, in the color. dried fruit, blueberry, earth, sweet, spice, pepper, cocoa, wood fibers, on the nose. mild acid, on the finish.
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7/31/2013 - stealthman_1 wrote: 94 Points
Shocker of the year. Five spice and brown sugar with strawberry jam. Just amazing fruit for a high alcohol wine with this amount of age on it. Perfectly integrated and balanced, if not just a tad brownish in color. A truly spectacular example of California Zinfandel from the '70s that everyone we shared it with (and we were trying to keep it to ourselves...) was blown away by. Bought 2 of these at auction for twenty bucks each, I can't wait to drink the second one!
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10/9/2010 - Old Tasting Notes wrote: 79 Points
Candylike, very very sugary. So different from the 77, think it wasn't stored well.
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8/14/2008 - dboutt wrote: 95 Points
Wow! What can I say. This wine is still going strong. Nice color, not too brown and still very showing a nice cherry red color. A 15.9% monster late harvest with 95% zin and 5% petite. A little hot but otherwise showing nice fruit.
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