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The November 2023 Auction: Part 5
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Estimate: $550
High shoulder, lightly torn and very lightly wrinkled capsule, nicked and lightly bin soiled label.
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94JG
"The 1974 Lytton Springs zinfandel from Ridge is one of the greatest bottles of zinfandel I have ever had the pleasure to taste. The wine has aged brilliantly and is drinking still at its absolute peak, soaring from the glass in a complex and captivating nose of black raspberries, cherries, pipe tobacco, delicate spice tones, a dollop of meatiness, a lovely base of soil and a topnote of aged leather. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and seamless, with excellent complexity, a fine core, outstanding focus and balance and a very long, meltingly tannic and utterly sophisticated finish. For those keeping score at home, the alcohol on this gem in the ripe vintage of 1974 was 13.3 percent. An utterly brilliant zin with decades of life still ahead of it."
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"The 1974 Lytton Springs zinfandel from Ridge is one of the greatest bottles of zinfandel I have ever had the pleasure to taste. The wine has aged brilliantly and is drinking still at its absolute peak, soaring from the glass in a complex and captivating nose of black raspberries, cherries, pipe tobacco, delicate spice tones, a dollop of meatiness, a lovely base of soil and a topnote of aged leather. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and seamless, with excellent complexity, a fine core, outstanding focus and balance and a very long, meltingly tannic and utterly sophisticated finish. For those keeping score at home, the alcohol on this gem in the ripe vintage of 1974 was 13.3 percent. An utterly brilliant zin with decades of life still ahead of it."
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