This diffuse, flabby, over-ripe wine exhibits a sour, unusual wood component. A muddled, unstructured, unfocused wine that seems to be going nowhere, Geyser Peak's 1986 is best drunk up as quickly as possible.
The tasting notes for this section are from two single blind tastings, one conducted in May, 1996, in California, and the other in June, 1996, in Baltimore.