"Cwdjrx _" wrote in message
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Many Cabernets from 1968 were outstanding, and some still are.

This bottle was from the near legend, Martin Ray. He has been dead many
years. Many of Ray's wines were huge, loaded with tannin, and took up to
decades to come around. Some were outstanding. Others were awful.

His 1976 Winery Lakes Vineyard Chardonnay is one of my few benchmark wines.
It was intensely rich, displaying *perfectly* ripe fruit with a nice, long
toasty finish. Ooooh _baby_! ;^D

Martin Ray was the kind of guy who tried hard to push the envelope with his
wines. His successes were spectacular but, like Babe Ruth, he struck out a
lot.

Tom S