So… lacking typicity? Interestingly enough, a nineteen sixty-something Lytton Springs (pre-Ridge) drunk at about 30 years of age was probably my favorite Zin ever, but it too smelled and tasted nothing like I expected from Zin. An aged Burg is a pretty reasonable approximation. Attempts to age more recent versions did not produce the same results.
Can any Zin be 100 points? This goes to the “how do you define 100 points” question, discussed more extensively here:
https://www.wineberserkers.com/t/what-does-100-point-score-mean
https://www.wineberserkers.com/t/how-rare-are-should-100-pt-wines-be
Was that 30 year old Lytton Springs 100 points? I didn’t score it at the time, but maybe. I still remember it, which says something. I’m in the camp that believes in multiple different ways a wine can be 100 points… it’s not limited to a mythical “perfect” wine.
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I am not at all sure what a 100 point wine is might as well a 100 point Zinfandel. But, like you two I would say that the most fascinating Zins I have had were really old Ridge wines - in my case, 1977 and 1978 Geyserville (about 5 years apart or so in the last 10 years or so)