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The April 2017 Internet-Only Auction Part 4
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Estimate: $35
Top shoulder, lightly scuffed capsule, very lightly scuffed label, sign of slight past seepage.
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"Ric Forman in his heyday at Sterling Vineyards made as fine an example of cabernet sauvignon as one could find anywhere in California, and the wines from this era have aged in exemplary fashion. The last vintage that Ric vinified at Sterling was the 1978, but he departed from the winery soon after the harvest and did not oversee the elevage of that wine. In any case, the 1975 is a brilliant example of the vintage, offering up a deep and beautifully sappy bouquet of black cherries, cigar box, a touch of petroleum jelly, smoke, beautiful soil tones and a dollop of eucalyptus in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and very sappy at the core, with melting tannins, great focus and complexity and a long, focused and very intense finish. This is a beautiful bottle of cabernet at its zenith, but with decades of life still ahead of it."
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"Ric Forman in his heyday at Sterling Vineyards made as fine an example of cabernet sauvignon as one could find anywhere in California, and the wines from this era have aged in exemplary fashion. The last vintage that Ric vinified at Sterling was the 1978, but he departed from the winery soon after the harvest and did not oversee the elevage of that wine. In any case, the 1975 is a brilliant example of the vintage, offering up a deep and beautifully sappy bouquet of black cherries, cigar box, a touch of petroleum jelly, smoke, beautiful soil tones and a dollop of eucalyptus in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and very sappy at the core, with melting tannins, great focus and complexity and a long, focused and very intense finish. This is a beautiful bottle of cabernet at its zenith, but with decades of life still ahead of it."
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