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Medium garnet and brick red. Lush and layered nose with cedar, leather, animal nuances, and dried cherries. So well rounded and integrated tannins (6/10). Medium plus to full bodied. Killer palate with tons of leather, wood chips, cherries and some plums. Long and lingering finish with great acidity.
Medium garnet and brick red. Lush and layered nose with cedar, leather, animal nuances, and dried cherries. So well rounded and integrated tannins (6/10). Medium plus to full bodied. Killer palate with tons of leather, wood chips, cherries and some plums. Long and lingering finish with great acidity.
That year the finest cork soakers were cork soaking (look it up on SNL). Also this wine was born... |1969| For me this was the wine of the night. Tons of energy, vibrancy and power all delicately present in each sip. Back then these wines were fermented in redwood open tops then aged in the finest barrels which were whiskey barrels that had aged the napa wines before the reserve wine. after properly seasoned and leeched of any oak flavors the best wine in the house used them... It was a different way people thought. They wanted only the best wines to have no oak flavor, to be naked and with out makeup. This is what I wish for the future of Napa... Less oak more fruit, flower and earth.
That year the finest cork soakers were cork soaking (look it up on SNL). Also this wine was born... |1969| For me this was the wine of the night. Tons of energy, vibrancy and power all delicately present in each sip. Back then these wines were fermented in redwood open tops then aged in the finest barrels which were whiskey barrels that had aged the napa wines before the reserve wine. after properly seasoned and leeched of any oak flavors the best wine in the house used them... It was a different way people thought. They wanted only the best wines to have no oak flavor, to be naked and with out makeup. This is what I wish for the future of Napa... Less oak more fruit, flower and earth.
Sadly, pretty much past its prime. Aromatics are pleasingly of old wine but the fruit has certainly faded from where our was the last time I tasted this a few years ago. Interesting and educational to drink now, but better with food than on its own.
Sadly, pretty much past its prime. Aromatics are pleasingly of old wine but the fruit has certainly faded from where our was the last time I tasted this a few years ago. Interesting and educational to drink now, but better with food than on its own.
Remarkably elegant and persistent, all components integrated and firing on all cylinders. Cedar and forest floor sessions on noise and palate, smoke acidity holds things together and echoes ofvsilky tannins are still in play. No way does this taste 55 years old. Among the three greatest California wines I've ever tasted.
Remarkably elegant and persistent, all components integrated and firing on all cylinders. Cedar and forest floor sessions on noise and palate, smoke acidity holds things together and echoes ofvsilky tannins are still in play. No way does this taste 55 years old. Among the three greatest California wines I've ever tasted.
Napa Valley, California, USA
