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Vintage 1969
The 1969 California wine harvest stands as a watershed, high-acid vintage for Northern California—most notably Napa Valley, Santa Cruz Mountains, and Sonoma—marked by a cool-to-temperate growing season that favored precision, low alcohol, and classical structural longevity. Harvested under ideal, dry autumn weather in late September and early October, top Cabernet Sauvignon releases—led by historic, benchmark bottlings from Mayacamas, Chappell...
