A buddy of mine brought this wine to dinner last night, but there is no vintage on the label. It came from his dad’s cellar, and he thinks it could be 60’s or 70’s. Check out the price - a little over $9. Can anyone tell from the labels what the vintage would be? The wine was drinking great.
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It’s between ‘63 and ‘72 based on the alcohol content and the PRIVATE RESERVE font.
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No vintage because it was on a neck label that apparently fell off.
-Al
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Yep that feels about right…but it could be closer to the early 80’s as well. My bottles of 1980 look exactly the same i believe, but I’ll take a closer look when i get back in town tomorrow
Vintage on the cork?
But the alcohol jumps to 13% after ‘72.
I think those alcohol #'s are flakey/inaccurate.
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You might look on the bottom of the btl. Often there is a date stamped when the btl was manufactured.
Subtract 2 yrs would give an approximate vintage.
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I may be going out on a limb here, uh no, but I don’t think they changed alcohol levels on the label mid stream mid-vintage. All the labels after ‘72 read 13% or higher. The label in the OP reads 12.5%.
Ahhh, gotcha! Ill check my bottles when i get back but sounds like you nailed it! 
Well it wouldn’t have been good if it was from 72 right so ?-1971.
Who knows pricing back then. $9.30 is almost $80 in todays money.
I kind of want to believe it is a 1968 . . .
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Thanks guys. There was no vintage on the cork. I’ll have to check to see if he still has the bottle. 68 would be cool because it is my birth year.
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My hope was a ‘70, if not a ‘68
I know someone mentioned it upthread, but I thought it was a 1968 only because I have such a magnificent memory of that vintage, and the label/bottle looks so much like what (I think) I remember. I seem to remember the neck label on the bottle I had was cellophane taped on, afterwards.
In any case, what a treasure to revisit.
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