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The December 2015 Internet-Only Auction Part 1
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Lot 107
Estimate: $225
OWC. Top shoulder, corroded capsule, handwritten notation on bottle, sign of slight past seepage.
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"Many Napa Valley wines of this era are criticized, in retrospect, for being imitation Bordeaux. Not this one. The mint on the nose and cola on the palate mark it as unmistakably New World . . . . robust tannins . . . . there’s a nice freshness in the wine and a leap in concentration from the older vintages that gives it strong appeal more than three decades on. I credit two percentages: 13.8, which is the amount of bright, red-fruited Cabernet Franc in the blend, and 12.2, extremely low alcohol for Napa even in the early 1980s."
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"Many Napa Valley wines of this era are criticized, in retrospect, for being imitation Bordeaux. Not this one. The mint on the nose and cola on the palate mark it as unmistakably New World . . . . robust tannins . . . . there’s a nice freshness in the wine and a leap in concentration from the older vintages that gives it strong appeal more than three decades on. I credit two percentages: 13.8, which is the amount of bright, red-fruited Cabernet Franc in the blend, and 12.2, extremely low alcohol for Napa even in the early 1980s."
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