Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon - 1998 (750ml) California beautifully concentrated

beautifully concentrated

The artist is Miró

The wine reveals plenty of sweet fruit in the fragrant bouquet

woodsmoke and game

with high levels of residual sugar (higher than 2001 for the most part) as well as botrytis

Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon - 1998 (750ml) California beautifully concentratedThe 1998 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate (13,000 cases) will disprove all the naysayers about how bad the vintage was in the North Coast. It possesses an opaque ruby purple color, a gorgeous perfume of loamy soil, new saddle leather, chocolate, and black cherry and black currant fruit, full body, and ripe tannin in the finish. As it sits in the glass, notes of cedar and spice box also emerge. Although more evolved than most Montelena Cabernets are at age 4,