diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js b/workspaces/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js
index b099d4d72c6a4..037488509c28d 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ const Shrinkwrap = require('../shrinkwrap.js')
 const { defaultLockfileVersion } = Shrinkwrap
 const { saveTypeMap, hasSubKey } = require('../add-rm-pkg-deps.js')
 const { IsolatedNode, IsolatedLink } = require('../isolated-classes.js')
+const { isReleaseAgeExcluded } = require('../release-age-exclude.js')
 
 // Part of steps (steps need refactoring before we can do anything about these)
 const _retireShallowNodes = Symbol.for('retireShallowNodes')
@@ -737,8 +738,20 @@ module.exports = cls => class Reifier extends cls {
           })
         }
       })
+      // When node.resolved is missing (e.g. a lockfile written with
+      // omit-lockfile-registry-resolved) `res` above is a bare `name@version`
+      // spec, so pacote has to hit the registry and re-run version-picking
+      // (including the `min-release-age`/`before` cutoff) to find the tarball.
+      // That re-resolution must honor `min-release-age-exclude` the same way
+      // build-ideal-tree's #releaseAgeBefore does, or a package that was
+      // correctly exempted while building the ideal tree can still get
+      // rejected here with ETARGET.
+      const before = isReleaseAgeExcluded(node.name, this.options.minReleaseAgeExclude)
+        ? null
+        : this.options.before
       await pacote.extract(res, node.path, {
         ...this.options,
+        before,
         resolved: node.resolved,
         integrity: node.integrity,
         // A node counts as "root" for allow-* enforcement if it satisfies at least one valid dependency edge declared by the project root or a workspace.
diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/test/arborist/reify.js b/workspaces/arborist/test/arborist/reify.js
index d453c79baa325..f3b74981f333e 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/test/arborist/reify.js
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/test/arborist/reify.js
@@ -167,6 +167,56 @@ t.test('weirdly broken lockfile without resolved value', async t => {
   await t.resolveMatchSnapshot(printReified(fixture(t, 'dep-missing-resolved')))
 })
 
+t.test('min-release-age-exclude applies when reify re-resolves a node with no resolved value', async t => {
+  // minimist@1.2.5 was published 2020-03-12T22:16:19.463Z (see
+  // ../fixtures/registry-mocks/content/minimist.json). A lockfile entry
+  // missing `resolved` (e.g. written with omit-lockfile-registry-resolved)
+  // forces reify's #extractOrLink to re-resolve `minimist@1.2.5` against the
+  // registry instead of extracting directly from a known tarball URL. That
+  // re-resolution must still honor min-release-age-exclude the same way
+  // build-ideal-tree's manifest fetches do.
+  const before = new Date('2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z')
+
+  const mkPath = t => t.testdir({
+    'package.json': JSON.stringify({
+      name: 'root',
+      version: '1.0.0',
+      dependencies: { minimist: '1.2.5' },
+    }),
+    'package-lock.json': JSON.stringify({
+      name: 'root',
+      version: '1.0.0',
+      lockfileVersion: 2,
+      requires: true,
+      packages: {
+        '': {
+          name: 'root',
+          version: '1.0.0',
+          dependencies: { minimist: '1.2.5' },
+        },
+        'node_modules/minimist': {
+          version: '1.2.5',
+        },
+      },
+    }, null, 2),
+  })
+
+  await t.test('without exclude, before still applies and fails', async t => {
+    createRegistry(t, true)
+    await t.rejects(
+      reify(mkPath(t), { before }),
+      { code: 'ETARGET' },
+      'the already-locked version is rejected by the release-age filter'
+    )
+  })
+
+  await t.test('with exclude, the already-locked version installs', async t => {
+    createRegistry(t, true)
+    const tree = await reify(mkPath(t), { before, minReleaseAgeExclude: ['minimist'] })
+    t.equal(tree.children.get('minimist').version, '1.2.5', 'excluded package still installs')
+  })
+})
+
 t.test('testing-peer-deps package', async t => {
   createRegistry(t, true)
   await t.resolveMatchSnapshot(printReified(fixture(t, 'testing-peer-deps')))