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Chateau Montelena The Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
HED54729
75 cl
13.8%
£220.00
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Chateau Montelena is an iconic Napa estate 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 2009 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon is a marvellous release with wonderful notes of black berries, dried flowers, tobacco and herbs. Whilst youthfully attractive, Montelena wines have wonderful life expectancy and this should age comfortably for several decades.
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Bright ruby-red. Penetrating aromas of black cherry, dried flowers and brown spices. Not as silky as the 2004 through 2007 vintages here but boasts noteworthy refinement and savory intensity, with fresh, harmonious acidity giving the wine good focus and finesse. Excellent depth here if not quite the flavor development of vintages like '07 and '04. Still, this conveys a thickness of texture and a faintly exotic quality and finishes with very suave tannins. The summer was rather cool but steady, and there was enough warmth in September to ensure ripe tannins without burning off needed acidity, noted Bo Barrett. A fairly elegantly styled Montelena Estate. (13.8% alcohol)Stephen Tanzer1st July 2019
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