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The May 2020 Auction: Part 3
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Estimate: $250
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93+JG
"This is the first vintage of Chateau Montelena’s Cabernet Sauvignon that I have tasted in many years, and I was very happy to check the alcohol level on the wine and find that it comes in at a very civilized 13.8 percent in 2012. The wine offers up a deep and youthful nose of red and black cherries, tobacco leaf, a dollop of red curry, lovely soil tones, a proper touch of fresh herbs and a discreet framing of cedary new wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and impressively light on its feet, with lovely mid-palate intensity, ripe, well-integrated tannins, lovely transparency and a long, primary and impeccably balanced finish. This wine is so beautifully balanced today that it is quite approachable, but it is still a puppy and really needs a good decade in the cellar to start to show its secondary layers of complexity and drink with generosity. It is a terrific young bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon! I must have been missing some terrific recent vintages of Cabernet Sauvignon from Chateau Montelena!"
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"This is the first vintage of Chateau Montelena’s Cabernet Sauvignon that I have tasted in many years, and I was very happy to check the alcohol level on the wine and find that it comes in at a very civilized 13.8 percent in 2012. The wine offers up a deep and youthful nose of red and black cherries, tobacco leaf, a dollop of red curry, lovely soil tones, a proper touch of fresh herbs and a discreet framing of cedary new wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and impressively light on its feet, with lovely mid-palate intensity, ripe, well-integrated tannins, lovely transparency and a long, primary and impeccably balanced finish. This wine is so beautifully balanced today that it is quite approachable, but it is still a puppy and really needs a good decade in the cellar to start to show its secondary layers of complexity and drink with generosity. It is a terrific young bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon! I must have been missing some terrific recent vintages of Cabernet Sauvignon from Chateau Montelena!"
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The fourth-largest wine producer in the world, led by California. American fine wine is defined by ripe, expressive fruit and a spirit of innovation, with Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon among the most sought-after wines globally.
The world's most planted premium red grape, yielding deeply colored, tannic and structured wines with cassis, cedar and graphite notes. Firm tannins and acidity make it exceptionally age-worthy, whether as a varietal or the backbone of a Bordeaux blend.