Abreu Howell Mountain 2010
HED84890
/ 75cl
/ 14.5%
£425.00
Abreu Howell Mountain 2010
HED84890
/ 75cl
/ 14.5%
£425.00
The 2010 Abreu Las Posadas emerges from David Abreu’s stunning Howell Mountain property. (For its first few years this wine was called “Howell Mountain”.) It offers an exotic mélange of inky dark fruit, blood orange, graphite, dried herbs, lavender and espresso. I admire the breadth and utter density here; even if the 2010 from magnum is still at least a few years from being fully approachable. - Antonio Galloni
Abreu Howell Mountain 2010 is a single-vineyard, Bordeaux-style red wine from the Napa Valley of California. Abreu Vineyards is one of the foundational wineries of the Napa Valley. Owner David Abreu was responsible for raising the standards of viticulture in Napa during 1980s and 1990s, when he consulted for now-iconic labels as Screaming eagle, Staglin Family Vineyards and Harlan Estate. This bottling is the 2010 vintage from Howell Mountain – now labelled as Las Posadas. It is a blend of 63% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Cabernet Franc, 8% Petit Verdot, 8% Malbec and 5% Merlot. "The 2010 Howell Mountain is simply magnificent. Inky, deep, and full-bodied to the core, the 2010 blasts out of the glass with graphite, pencil shavings, menthol, melted road tar, plum, cassis and liquorice notes. The 2010 is an exciting, viscerally thrilling wine that takes hold of the sense and never lets up. Today, it is firing on all cylinders. The Howell Mountain is the only Abreu wine that incorporates Malbec, a variety that seems to work magic here." 100 points, Vinous, 2013
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