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Chateau Montelena The Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2010
HED84383
75 cl
14.2%
£165.00
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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 2010 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon exudes pure class with its delicious layers of warm blackcurrant, tobacco, herbs, liquorice and graphite. A European-styled Cabernet with at least two decades-worth of cellaring potential.
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Vinous
Bright red-ruby. Exceptional aromatic purity and complexity to the aromas of blueberry, cassis, cocoa powder, mocha, spices and minerals; some very ripe berry pie notes emerged with air. Wonderfully creamy, silky and deep; an utterly seamless wine with the underlying soil-driven minerality to energize and frame its fleshy flavors of dark fruits and spices. This is yet another 2010 whose impression of refinement belies the weather extremes of the growing season. Finishes with building but perfectly integrated tannins and outstanding length. This is already approaching its plane of peak drinkability but I'd still want to hold my bottles for at least a few more years. ("You really had to be a good farmer in 2010," noted Bo Barrett)Stephen Tanzer1st May 2020
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