1975 Ridge Petite Sirah York Creek

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  7/3/2020 - Doblk wrote: 94 Points

  Was worried because the cork seemed a little loose, but still in great shape. Beautiful rosemary and charred cedar nose. Still fairly intense tart black fruit, with very even presentation and great length. Pretty impressive for 45 years.

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  11/11/2017 - DaleW wrote:

  Initial guesses were Rhone (totally reasonable). Meat, bacon , red plum, a smokey note. Once I said Cali, Cathleen said Syrah, I said “a little” Guesses as to a blend, till they got my joke. Also thought much younger. Not super complex, but good. B+

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  11/8/2014 - ballardhack wrote:

  Six years after the last review for this vintage here and still outstanding. Opened and found it to be musty but with incredibly strong fruit flavor. The cork crumbled in half and wine was 3/4 up but the top of the cork was still fine.
  
  Let it breath in the bottle for three hours before pouring into glasses at which point the fruit had blended, much of the mustiness had blown off and the complexity increased. Great depth of flavor and rich fruits; unexpected after 39 years!
  
  If you have one of these still I'd open it soon. I don't think there are more than a couple more years in this one.

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  11/11/2008 - salil wrote: 95 Points

  Wine dinner at Cafe Cortadito (NYC): Dark red colour bricking a little at the rim - still looks incredibly youthful. This comes across like an outstanding older Northern Rhone with dominant leather and gamey notes giving it a sauvage character, and complex flavours of cedar, smoked meat, spicy red fruits and tar underneath. Subtle, layered and still seems to have the stuffing to last a while longer with grainy tannins and vibrant fruit on the back end.

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  11/11/2008 - spacewrangler wrote: 94 Points

  Beautiful wine that poo-poohs the travel shock theory. Lugged around NYC all day before popping with dinner. Cork broke in half, but the wine was pristine. Beautiful cedar/redwood frames spicy and still energy-packed red fruit. This particular showed better than the prior and hard to dispute that this is as gorgeous an example of petite sirah that exists.

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