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Chateau Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 1987

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Chateau Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (1987)

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Winery:: Chateau Montelena Winery
Varietal:: Cabernet Sauvignon
Region:: USA > California > Napa
Type:: Red Wine
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Drink Dates:: Drink Now - 2017
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User Tags: berry, dried, nose, black currant, fruit, structure, complex, cedar, trees, resinous

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California's Napa Valley has been a source of world-class Cabernet Sauvignon for well over a century. Its warm climate and varied terrain allows for many styles of wine. One thread that runs through almost all the Cabernet based wines from Napa is their lush, ripe full-bodied feel and rich flavors of currant and berry. Wines from the valley floor, particularly around Rutherford, are famed for a dusty quality and those coming from the hillsides surrounding the valley, Mt. Veeder, Diamond Mountain and Howell Mountain for example, tend to be a little leaner with more obvious structural elements.

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Whoa doggie! This is great just to smell with it's core of rich, liquory black currant fruit edged with eucalyptus and sweet herb top notes. This is still youthful in the mouth but ready to go with a big, solid core of black currant fruit and just enough tannin still in residence to give the wine a slightly agressive edge but the depth here is just fabulous. Great length. this is monumental California Cabernet. 2009-2022 96pts

December 2008

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WS 93 (11/1999): Tight and perhaps even less flashy than usual, it is slow to reveal its complex range of earthy, cedary currant and black cherry.--Chateau Montelena vertical. Drink now through 2008.

October 2008

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IWC 94 (8/1998): Very youthful, saturated ruby-red color. Penetrating, powerful aromas of roasted plum, cassis, tobacco, earth, truffle, tar and meat, plus a floral topnote. Thick and sweet but sharply delineated, with impressive extract and very strong underlying structure. This is approachable now due to its balance and sheer sweetness of fruit but will go on for another decade or more. Finishing flavors build slowly and linger. Ripe, chewy tannins coat the entire palate. Perhaps better as a meal substitute than as an accompaniment to food.

October 2008

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Rating: 98/100 - As reviewed in Wine Advocate # 89 on Oct-93

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Rating: 93/100 - As reviewed by Wine Spectator on 11/15/99

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Chateau Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 1987