1978 Kenwood "Artist Series" Sonoma Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Bid on this 4-bottle lot of 1978 Kenwood "Artist Series" Sonoma Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. "Kenwood Vineyards' fourth Artist Series Cabernet Sauvignon release features 'Inscape' by artist Charles Mingus III. Charles Mingus III, son of the famous jazz musician, was born in Los Angeles, California and attended Chouinard Art Institute in Hollywood. Since 1963 his works have appeared in a number of east coast galleries including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Feigen Gallery in Chicago. He has designed record album covers for Columbia Records and Kapp Records. Charles now lives in New York City and is currently exploring computer animation techniques using his graphic watercolors as a base for motion. The 1978 Artist Series is composed entirely of the top Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from the Steiner and Laurel Glen vineyards in the Sonoma Mountains, northeast of Kenwood. Each lot was aged separately for one year in both French and American oak barrels before being blended and bo 

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1978 Kenwood "Artist Series" Sonoma Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (qty: 4)

End Date: Sep 24 2019 11:30AM PT

1978 Matanzas Creek Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon
Bid on this 4-bottle lot of 1978 Matanzas Creek Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon. Matanzas Creek were among the pioneers of grapegrowing and winemaking in Sonoma County's Bennett Valley, near Santa Rosa. Established in 1977 by Sandra McIver, the winery's early days produced some breathtaking wines that took this quiet area surrounded by mountains and launched it onto the wine scene. The 1978 vintage was the inaugural vintage and the winemaker was none other than the legendary Merry Edwards who stayed in residence until 1984. Another one of those 1970's California wines that makes you pause in wonder. 

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1978 Matanzas Creek Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon (qty: 4)

End Date: Sep 22 2019 3:30PM PT

1978 Léoville-Las-Cases, St-Julien (OWC)
Bid on this 12-bottle lot of 1978 Léoville-Las-Cases, St-Julien (OWC - 90RP) in original wood. Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: "The 1978 Las Cases has taken on a garnet hue with some dark ruby tints. The nose is more complex and penetrating than the flavors. The wine offers classic, mineral, lead pencil, smoky, earthy scents, with plenty of ripe fruit, and none of the vegetal herbaceousness that many 1978s have begun to exhibit. The attack offers good ripeness, medium to full body, higher acidity than many more recent vintages, and considerable tannin in the hard finish. Although this wine possesses outstanding complexity, the high tannin level may never fully melt away. (RP)" (10/1995) 

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1978 Léoville-Las-Cases, St-Julien (qty: 12)

End Date: Sep 23 2019 5:30PM PT

1978 Chateau Montelena California Zinfandel
Bid on this 3-bottle lot of 1978 Chateau Montelena California Zinfandel.  

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1978 Chateau Montelena California Zinfandel (qty: 3)

End Date: Sep 28 2019 2:30PM PT

1978 Latour, Pauillac
Bid on this 3-bottle lot of 1978 Latour, Pauillac (92WS, 90RP). Wine Spectator: "A sleek and racy wine. Ruby-amber color. Aromas of cedar, cigar box,tobacco, mint and mushrooms, with hints of red fruits, follow though to a medium body with fine tannins and a long, silky finish. (JS)" (08/2000) 

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1978 Latour, Pauillac (qty: 3)

End Date: Sep 24 2019 6:00PM PT

1978 Ducru-Beaucaillou, St-Julien
Bid on this 3-bottle lot of 1978 Ducru-Beaucaillou, St-Julien (90JG, 90RP). Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: "An outstanding 1978, Ducru-Beaucaillou's effort displays a fragrant, well-developed bouquet of licorice, earth, black currants, and underbrush. Rich for a 1978, with none of the vegetal character now found in many wines of this vintage, this fully mature, medium-bodied wine exhibits soft tannin, excellent concentration and purity, and a sweet, elegant finish. (RP)" (12/1997) 

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1978 Ducru-Beaucaillou, St-Julien (qty: 3)

End Date: Sep 28 2019 3:00PM PT

1978 Freemark Abbey "Bosche" Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Bid on this 4-bottle lot of 1978 Freemark Abbey "Bosche" Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. The world famous Cabernet Bosché vineyard is located on the Rutherford Bench, west of Grgich Winery, up against the Mayacamas hills. The wines from this vineyard are typically elegant and approachable, and express aromas of cedar, berry fruit and dark cherry. And, boy, do they age! Robert Parker praised this era of Freemark wine in his Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition: "In the 1970s and 1980s, Freemark Abbey was a top-notch winery renowned for their fabulous Cabernet Sauvignon Bosche Vineyard." 

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1978 Freemark Abbey "Bosche" Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (qty: 4)

End Date: Sep 28 2019 3:00PM PT

1978 Raymond Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Bid on this 3-bottle lot of 1978 Raymond Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. According to Robert Parker, this Napa Valley mainstay estate has seen a revolution in new hands. "Under the ownership of Jean-Charles Boisset, Raymond Vineyards has completely revamped their packaging, winemaking, blends and offerings, and there appears to be a dramatic effort to upgrade the quality of this famous winery that had fallen on hard times. Unquestionably, Raymond Vineyards needed a major infusion of capital, a complete makeover, and a new direction, and Jean-Charles Boisset seems to be pulling out all the stops." 

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1978 Raymond Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (qty: 3)

End Date: Sep 28 2019 3:00PM PT

1978 Pichon-Lalande, Pauillac
Bid on this 7-bottle lot of 1978 Pichon-Lalande, Pauillac (93RP, 92WS). Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: "This has a very expressive nose, a touch of greenness but ebullient black fruits, tar, graphite and cedar all with very fine definition. The palate is medium-bodied, quite sweet and silky on the entry with good acidity, notes of black cherries, iodine and an almost sorbet like character towards the finish that shows a surprising amount of glycerine. This is certainly a great success for the vintage, kudos to the late-Michel Delon for fashioning such great wines in modest growing seasons. Drink now-2025. (NM-Wine Journal)" (09/2009) 

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1978 Pichon-Lalande, Pauillac (qty: 7)

End Date: Sep 28 2019 4:00PM PT

1978 Pichon-Baron, Pauillac
Bid on this 2-bottle lot of 1978 Pichon-Baron, Pauillac. According to Michael Broadbent: "Notably deep, intense appearance, a gloriously exciting five-star bouquet, medium-sweet, full-bodied. A powerful, spicy wine with good flesh and fruit." Decanter's vintage note on 1978: "A classic Bordeaux vintage of average sign, so much smaller than the vintage of the 80s & 90s. While they never had the pretensions of '70 or '75, the have probably given more pleasure for longer than either." 

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1978 Pichon-Baron, Pauillac (qty: 2)

End Date: Sep 28 2019 4:30PM PT

1978 Petrus, Pomerol
Bid on this bottle of 1978 Petrus, Pomerol (92JG). John Gilman: "The 1978 Château Lafleur-Pétrus is one of the finest Right Bank wines I have tasted from this vintage. The wine offers up a lovely and complex nose of cherries, nutskin, a beautiful base of soil tones, pomegranate, a touch of soy, fresh herb tones and a fine topnote of smokiness. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and very nicely balanced, with plenty of depth at the core, gentle tannins, tangy acids and excellent focus and grip on the long and complex finish. There is absolutely no sense here of imperfect ripeness and the wine is a very fine, svelte middleweight in its plateau of peak drinkability." (05/2016) 

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1978 Petrus, Pomerol (qty: 1)

End Date: Sep 28 2019 4:00PM PT

1978 Lynch-Bages, Pauillac
Bid on this 6-bottle lot of 1978 Lynch-Bages, Pauillac (92WS, 91RP). Wine Spectator: "No tasting note given." (01/1989) 

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1978 Lynch-Bages, Pauillac (qty: 6)

End Date: Sep 27 2019 5:00PM PT