Five Decades of Geyserville & Lytton Springs – Stephen Tanzer Reviews

Vinous Media

August 22, 2018

Stephen Tanzer reviews vintages of Geyserville and Lytton Springs spanning five decades in recent Double Vertical tasting of our most historic zinfandel-based wines:

“The double vertical had two objectives: first, to make the point that these are seriously nuanced, balanced wines that age slowly and gracefully, and second, and perhaps more important, to demonstrate that they are distinctly different wines that accurately reflect their terroirs…

The oldest wines had aged beautifully in a claret-like direction and the bottles from the 2000s were still quite youthful. What all of the wines had in common was atypical complexity and restraint for Zinfandel…These are elegant, gripping wines without exaggerated character.” — Stephen Tanzer, Vinous Media

Wines Tasted:

• 1973 Geyserville – 92 Points
• 1973 Lytton Springs – 90 Points
• 1984 Geyserville – 91 Points
• 1984 Lytton Springs – 92 Points
• 1993 Geyserville – 94 Points
• 1993 Lytton Springs – 93 Points
• 1999 Geyserville – 91 Points
• 1999 Lytton Springs – 95 Points
• 2005 Geyserville – 93 Points
• 2005 Lytton Springs – 92 Points
• 2012 Geyserville – 93 Points
• 2012 Lytton Springs – 93+ Points

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