Originally Posted By: Brad Harrington
The 1970 and the 1971 Ridge Occidental Zins. I tasted them close to 10 years ago but had the chance to taste them within a week of each other, just by coincidence.

Nice wines, still drinking decently but like a light styled claret.

Very cool to try but 30 year old zins are probably not the best thing to be going for.


Operative term: "claret style". I recall two visits to Ridge in the early 1980s and it was almost odd to see a label with an alcohol over 13-13.5%. The Paso Zin was an exception.
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