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Bid on this bottle of 1979 Penfolds "Grange" Shiraz South Australia (94WS). Wine Spectator: "Big and broad, it's gloriously spicy and rich, pouring out its licorice-scented plum, prune, berry and smoke flavors like a fountain, yet it remains harmonious and marvelously balanced. (HS)" (01/1997)

Bid on this bottle of 1979 Caymus "Special Selection" Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (93WS, 92RP). Wine Spectator: "*Spectator Selection* (Web-1985)"

When The Perfect Fifth released this extraordinary 41-year-old Cambus in 2020, it carried a retail price of roughly $1,100, entirely reasonable on paper for a cask-strength whisky distilled in 1979 at a distillery that had already been closed for nearly three decades. Today we're able to offer that exact whisky for a fraction of its original price, and at this level it becomes one of the most astonishing old Scotch values we've seen in years. Cambus was one of Scotland's great grain distilleries, enormously important to the blending industry before closing permanently in 1993, and stocks of this age are becoming genuinely finite. Cask #90003 was distilled April 25, 1979 and spent 41 years in a first-fill ex-bourbon barrel before being bottled June 15, 2020 at a natural 53.2% ABV, yielding just 283 bottles. Despite the enormous age, this is not tired old grain. The nose is packed with pastry, nougat, toasted nuts, orange, vanilla and sweet oak. The palate remains remarkably fresh and energetic, with citrus, honey, sponge cake, almond, tea and gentle spice carrying through a long, polished finish. Whiskyfun's Serge Valentin scored it 88 points extremely high for the discerning Frenchman, while Jim Murray gave it 96. At $350, finding 41-year-old whisky of this pedigree, at full cask strength, from a long-closed distillery feels almost absurd.

Bid on this bottle of 1979 Latour, Pauillac. The 1979 vintage in Bordeaux saw a wet spring followed by a dry summer and moderate temperatures around an abundant harvest.

Bid on this bottle of 1979 Joseph Phelps "Eisele Vineyard" Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. Wine Advocate: "The Eisele Vineyard Cabernet, from Milton Eisele's dry-farmed vineyard in Northern Napa Valley just east of Calistoga, produces some of the most intense and richest fruit of the entire valley. Its characteristics are not only the great depth and purity of black currant fruit, but a mineral violet and licorice component that comes out in the wines as they age." (10/1988)

The 1979 Colheita Tawny Port is an equal blend of Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Franca and Tinta Barroca bottled in May of 2019 with 134 grams of residual sugar and a bar-top cork. Lovely, this has a remarkably fresh feel for what amounts to a 40 Year Tawny. It's a bit light and not terribly intense, but its caramel edge and flavor-filled finish is a treasure. (MS)