Wynns 2004 BL 'Vintage release'

Damo961 · Post by **Damo961** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:09 am

I picked up some various bottles the other day to make a mixed dozen of wines I'm considering getting more of including a couple of bottles of what I thought was regular wynns 2004 BL.

When I took a closer look though they had "Vintage release" on the label above 2004 and a separate sticker below the regular lavel identifying it as Cab sav.

Sorry to expose my ignorance

but is this just a label change and it is regular BL? or something different?

beef · Post by **beef** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:37 am

IIRC, the 2004 had some extra labelling (relative to previous releases), identifying it as some sort of celebration of the anniversary of something or other.

All the bottles I've seen had this.

Is this what you're talking about?

Damo961 · Post by **Damo961** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:59 am

There's a pic of the bottle I'm talking about here (sorry can't make it link as I'm new)

They seem to talk about it as regular BL, but I was sure i'd seen 2004 with just the regular label.
I paid about what you'd expect to for BL on special - so it's entirely possible it is. I was just a little confused when I looked at the label.

wino-sapien dot blogspot dot com/2007/01/wynns-black-label-2004 dot html

Red Bigot · Post by **Red Bigot** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:14 pm

Yeah, that's the new label layout, same on the 2005.

aj_syrah · Post by **aj_syrah** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 1:22 am

I've heard the '05 is v.good. How cheap can i get it?

Red Bigot · Post by **Red Bigot** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:20 am

aj_syrah wrote:I've heard the '05 is v.good. How cheap can i get it?

It's early days yet, $18.50 is the lowest I've personally seen so far, watch for chain specials.