Happy Birthday To You!

If you were born in the 1970s, you might still be able to drink a bottle of California wine from the year of your birth. We recently opened a bottle of 1975 Villa Mount Eden Cabernet Sauvignon. While it was not a particularly memorable wine, it was remarkable how intact it was after 30 some odd years. Same for a bottle of 1975 Cuvaison Cabernet Sauvignon made by Phillip Togni from old vines at the Gamble Vineyard. This one was awesome. A bottle of 1975 Raymond Cabernet didn't fair so well. You have to be careful with old bottles, but many California wines from the nineteen seventies were built to last.