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  • Country ranking ?

    387
  • Producer ranking ?

    18
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Game

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"The ultimate expression of terroir." Hand-selected fruit from the finest blocks within our vineyards are handled with the greatest care in our dedicated reserve fermentation cellar. These wines combine elegant complexity with density and structure, and demonstrate the art of winemaking. 

Our Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is the wine which embodies Robert Mondavi’s philosophy of making wines that are powerful yet gentle. Each year the blend re...

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(15% alcohol): Good bright medium ruby. Sexy dark berries, raspberry, tobacco, mocha and spicy oak on the nose, plus a whiff of iron. Sweet, lush flavors of currant, plum, tobacco and iron. Finishes with substantial dusty, broad tannins and very good length. I wanted a bit more in the way of treble notes, but this wine is undeniably plush and rich, with red fruits and brown spices dominating. Slightly aggressive tannins show a dusty edge.

  • 92p
2004 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve / 93-95 I was really hit by this wine, tasted the first time at the winery some years ago, and since then several times again at the winery. Again, this is a great vintage with smaller proportions from To Kalon (only 53 percent) and with slightly more Cabernet Franc than on average, 12 percent. As the other vintages from the 2000s, this is still a very young wine that should be kept for many more years before tasted again. It’s dark and densely structure with a rich but not sweet fruit, intense but foremost elegant, and it also shows more spicy notes (lavender, saffron and bay leafs) than in other vintages. On the palate, it shows layers of ripe fruit, it’s rich but still dry, at the moment everything is hold back by the tannins and the bittersweet tannins of the oak. For sure this will be a great wine for the future.
  • 94p
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Origin

Oakville, Napa Valley

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