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Chateau Montelena The Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 1995
HED60120
75 cl
14.1%
£175.00
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Chateau Montelena is one of the oldest and most illustrious Napa estates and undoubtedly helped place California on the fine wine map when it took out one of the top prizes at the 1976 ‘Judgement of Paris’. The 1995 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon is dense, powerful and rich, with notes of cassis, blueberry compote, baking spices and tilled earth. This is now nearing its peak drinking phase and will benefit from decanting.
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Good dark red, but not as lucid as the 1994. Intriguing scents of redcurrant, dried plum, hoisin sauce, tobacco and dried flowers; more red than black in character and thus more like the pre-1994 vintages. Nicely firm and fresh, conveying an impression of energy and finesse to its black cherry, tobacco and spice flavors, if not quite the complexity of the '94. Bo Barrett opened this very satisfying second bottle after our first sample showed a rounder mouthfeel but more evolved aromas of prune and earth and a faint dry edge, probably the result of an imperfect cork. (14.1% alcohol)Stephen Tanzer1st May 2019
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