Library Wines

From the earliest days at Lenz, we adopted a practice of holding back a small amount of the best wines from certain vintages. For example, after 1993, which was a wonderful vintage for reds, when our stocks of Old Vines Merlot and Cabernet from that year were shrinking fast, we withheld about 50 cases of each and moved on to the next vintage. Around the same time, we also adopted the practice of bottling a fraction of our best reds in magnum and occasionally double-magnum sizes.
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The idea was to reach the point where we would have an extensive library of older, aging wines. Well, we have reached that point. As of today, we have a mix of reds, and even certain whites, in different formats (i.e. bottle sizes) going back to 1993.

We offer some these wines as part of our premium tasting flights, both to enjoy and to give Lenz customers a chance to gauge how our wines will improve with age. Based on our own tasting of these library wines, our Old Vines reds peak at between 15 and 20 years.