Community Tasting Notes 17

• ShadowIII Likes this wine: 91 points

  November 4, 2022 - Still with good fruit, currants, cedar, mint and eucalyptus, soft tannins, good finish.

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• KL1191 Likes this wine: 92 points

  October 15, 2021 - Perfect cork. Wonderfully alive. Aromas of cigar box, charred green pepper. Palate is red fruited with raspberry and boysenberry. Sufficient acid; held up against a veal chop Parmesan. A wonderful time capsule.

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• MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  January 10, 2020 - Another Year, Another Napa (aka Winter in Wineland IV); 1/5/2020-1/11/2020 (Napa/Sonoma California): From the 'vintage pour' at Press. This was great. First of all, not often that I get to do birth year wines and given the birth year not often when I do that they are actually good. But this was drinking very well. Old school Napa.

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• onboisduvin wrote: 87 points

  October 27, 2017 - No more like wine, plum juice rather. Late stage of life.
  
  2018/2/4 This bottle is completely different story from previous ones. A bit over its peak when tannin is soft and smooth. The aroma and taste is not strong but integrated as old wine should be. 91

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• bu11itt Likes this wine: 92 points

  April 23, 2016 - HOT DAMN!!! Wine of the night hands down. So open and expressive with fruit and earth and barrels notes all on the nose. The palate was just alive with flavors and felt so young with wonderfully integrated tannins that still showed their presence and a tart acidic kick that lasted all the way to the end. Everyone loved it. Really the best thing I can say about this wine is the wife of one of the guys at the table just does not care for red wine. She will normally drink beer or a cocktail when we all get together. Out of curiosity and I guess open-mindedness, she halfway participated in the tasting, taking small sips from her husband’s glasses. After sampling the Mondavi she looked up and said, “Oh wow. That’s good.”

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1981
• Type Red
• Producer Robert Mondavi Winery
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Reserve
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• Pending Delivery 1 (0%)
• In Cellars 192 (78%)
• Consumed 53 (22%)

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