Tried these two old Rosenblum Zins this morning:
1. Rosenblum Zin BrandlinRanch/Mt.Veeder (13.8%) Alameda 1992: Dark fairly murky/brown color; rather tired cedary/pencilly/oldZin slight Zin/fruit/blackberry rather dried out nose; tart/tangy rather astringent quite dried-out/tired no fruit fairly metallic flavor w/ light astringent tannins; nothing left here & pretty much dead&gone.
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2. Rosenblum Zin GeorgeHendryVnyd/NapaVlly Reserve (13.8%) 1991: Dark very murky/brown color; a bit more fruit & oak but fairly tired/dried-out cedary/pencilly/old Zin nose; slight blackberry/Zin/fruit/spicy quite tired/dried-out/metallic some cedary/pencilly rather astringent flavor; in slightly better shape w/ a bit of blackberry fruit but offers up little in the way of pleasure; pretty well dead&gone.
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More zigglegeist from TheBloodyPulpit:
1. I didn't expect much from these old Zin & they pretty much delivered on that. Both corks totally crumbled upon removal.
I always liked George Hendry when I ran into him. He was a physicist at the Berkeley Radiation Lab in the area of accelerator design. After he retired from BRL to devote full time to grape-growing & winemaking, he started up an accelerator manufacturing business for medical uses in his barn. No doubt the city of Napa would have shut him down had they known it. We always used to chat a little physics when we'd run into each other. Very bright & fun guy George was.
Tom