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The Spring 2012 Live Auction
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Estimate: $1,300
Base neck or better, worn, two lightly wine stained, one nicked and one lightly corroded capsule, very lightly scuffed, one very lightly glue stained and three lightly bin soiled labels.
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Collection name
Further selections from the Cellar of Dr. G. Bradford Klein.
Reviews
95JG
"The 1970 Heitz Martha’s showed so well that I thought this was another perfect bottle of the ’75 Joseph Phelps Eisele with which I had been blown away by two weeks earlier. The flamboyant bouquet on the ’70 Martha’s is stellar and typically marked by its mint-eucalyptus component, with notes of cassis, blackberries, chocolate and subtle vanillin oak soaring along with the mint. I usually associate a more red fruity signature to Martha’s, but the 1970 is emphatically from the black fruity side of the ledger. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, deep, long and classy, with impressive elegance, a fine core of fruit, melting tannins and a long, silky and intensely flavored finish. This is a fantastic wine that is clearly in the same league as the legendary 1974."
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Red
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"The 1970 Heitz Martha’s showed so well that I thought this was another perfect bottle of the ’75 Joseph Phelps Eisele with which I had been blown away by two weeks earlier. The flamboyant bouquet on the ’70 Martha’s is stellar and typically marked by its mint-eucalyptus component, with notes of cassis, blackberries, chocolate and subtle vanillin oak soaring along with the mint. I usually associate a more red fruity signature to Martha’s, but the 1970 is emphatically from the black fruity side of the ledger. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, deep, long and classy, with impressive elegance, a fine core of fruit, melting tannins and a long, silky and intensely flavored finish. This is a fantastic wine that is clearly in the same league as the legendary 1974."
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