WineXpert What is your longest aged kit wine in your cellar?

[David219]

I am sitting here enjoying a 2011 WE Lodi Ranch 11 Cab...the Estate Series, prior to the current Eclipse line. It's good...more nose than I usually get with kit wines. Mine always seem a bit deficient in that area. Minimal browning.

I also have a couple bottles of 2010 LE Primitivo and 2010 LE Shiraz/Viognier (bottled in 2011). They all see to be holding their own pretty well to this point. My wine cellar is in a dark, unfinished area of my basement that remains a fairly constant "Midwestern basement" temperature. So my oldest wines are now just a tick over 5years old.

Anyone else have any aging stories...good or bad?

 

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[Brian55]

Oldest at the moment is an Eclipse cab from Feb. 2013. We only have five bottles that are over 3 years old, but well over 100 that are over 2 years old, and over 400 that are over 1 year old, so we'll have some hitting the five year mark in a few years.

 

[dcbrown73]

My oldest is a Eclipse Barossa Valley Shiraz. From............March 2016!

 

[joeswine]

Peach Port, 2007

 

[ibglowin]

2009 CC Showcase Red Mountain Cab.

 

[Boatboy24]

April 2012 CC Showcase Old Vine Zin. Next is an Aug 2012 CC LR Red Mountain Trio.

 

[bakervinyard]

Sept. 2012 W.E. V.D.V. Reisling and Sept. 2012 V.D.V. Merlot. A couple bottles each left from what I made for my daughters wedding. Bakervinyard

 

[heatherd]

December 2012 Cranberry Malbec.

 

[FTC Wines]

A 2009 CC Amarone, only 2 bottles left. Re corked them 2 yrs ago. Roy

 

[wineforfun]

2013 RJS Old Vine Zin. 4 bottles left.

 

[wineh]

One bottle of LE2012 Nebbiolo bottled in March 2013.

 

[TXWineDuo]

2014 WE World Vineyard California Pinot Noir about 7 bottles left.


TXWineDuo

 

[roger80465]

Quite an impressive list so far. A large number from 2012 and older shows we have plenty of members with patience.

My oldest is a MM Renaissance Amarone from 2011. I only have a couple bottles left and I'm planning a 5 yr vertical Amarone tasting around the holidays. Should be fun.

 

[terroirdejeroir]

2012 CC Showcase Amarone

 

[Rodnboro]

2013 RJS Winery Series Super Tuscan. I have 2 bottles left. I just wish I had a real cellar or even a basement.

 

[crushday]

My oldest is a Eclipse Barossa Valley Shiraz. From............March 2016!

Do you have any of these left? How is it developing? I have a 2017 that I'm just trying the first bottle of - it's good and shows promise.

 

[FTC Wines]

2009 CC Amarone, 2 bottles left. But we have at least 6 from 2012 and 25 from 2015 . We love this wine! Have a 6 gal barrel Of it from 2017. Roy

 

[jgmann67]

My oldest bottle in the basement is a 2015 WE Enigma. I went a little off the rails tweaking it, so the end product was a disappointment. But, it’s actually turned the corner and has some decent character to it now. I used half a case of it making sangria over the summer. Huge hit.

 

[ras2018]

2014 WE Lodi Cab Sauv. This wine has never really been that exciting to me, even at year 4.