I received this from someone and I’m not familiar with the winery. Do you guys think this 44 year old cab is still good?
by amymill52
9 Comments
highplainsdrifter6
No. Well past its prime. Without seeing the ullage it’s hard to guess. That said it’s a piece of history. Pop it, Breathe it and enjoy. Might be fantastic and some dumbass on Reddit might be super wrong.
LouisRenault1942
It certainly cannot harm you, even if the wine was bad. (No known human pathogen can live in wine.).So the worst scenario is you pop the cork, let it breathe (or decant it), take a taste and pour it down the drain. But the best case scenario will yield a dynamite wine that amazes and delights….
Ceber007
Could be
cookingonthecharles
Open it and find out
milodye
Pretty sketchy. But you still have to try.
MaceWinnoob
This is like seeing a ghost. This winery might as well be dead.
sid_loves_wine
Probably many, many years past its prime, but A. It’s definitely safe to try, practice using an ah-so opener to get it open) and B. Napa Cabernet was definitely built to last back then, so even though it was probably meant to be drank in the 80s or early 90s at latest, there’s a very small chance it could be hanging on by a thread.
Borgweare
Probably not good. I opened a 40 year old Napa cab that had been kept in ideal conditions a few months back and it wasn’t good.
rcll02
Franciscan used to have really nice wines but constellation changed that. It’s probably past its prime but worth an open!
9 Comments
No. Well past its prime. Without seeing the ullage it’s hard to guess. That said it’s a piece of history. Pop it, Breathe it and enjoy. Might be fantastic and some dumbass on Reddit might be super wrong.
It certainly cannot harm you, even if the wine was bad. (No known human pathogen can live in wine.).So the worst scenario is you pop the cork, let it breathe (or decant it), take a taste and pour it down the drain. But the best case scenario will yield a dynamite wine that amazes and delights….
Could be
Open it and find out
Pretty sketchy. But you still have to try.
This is like seeing a ghost. This winery might as well be dead.
Probably many, many years past its prime, but A. It’s definitely safe to try, practice using an ah-so opener to get it open) and B. Napa Cabernet was definitely built to last back then, so even though it was probably meant to be drank in the 80s or early 90s at latest, there’s a very small chance it could be hanging on by a thread.
Probably not good. I opened a 40 year old Napa cab that had been kept in ideal conditions a few months back and it wasn’t good.
Franciscan used to have really nice wines but constellation changed that. It’s probably past its prime but worth an open!