Mouton Rothschild - 1970 (750ml) Size:750ml blackberries

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head-trained vines from steep limestone slopes just down the road from Justin Smith’s Saxum Winery have produced a monster and a fascinating Zinfandel in 2013

I never thought this was a perfect wine

this is packed with dark smoldering cocoa

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Mouton Rothschild - 1970 (750ml) Size:750ml blackberriesI have had a remarkable number of opportunities to taste this wine. One of the most frustratingly irregular wines I have ever encountered, the 1970 Mouton can range from pure nectar, to a wine that is angular, austere, and frightfully hard and tannic. This bottle (one of the Reserve du Chateau bottlings that was mistakenly released by the estate and labeled with the letters R. C., rather than a number) was impossible to assess when decanted, given its