2019 Dunn Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain
Community Tasting Note
Robmcl920 Likes this wine:
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - The '19 Howell Mountain is an incredible young wine. I've always liked tasting older Dunn, but tasting some more of the recent vintages in the past year or so I think I've underestimated how good they are. These are world class, super finessed wines.
On the nose, I found dark red berry fruit, fresh lavender, dark floral tones, a touch of baker's chocolate and sweet spices, and smoke. On the palate, the wine is medium bodied and very delicate in texture, with almost no perception of tannin. The flavors are very pure and bright, with dark red raspberry fruit tones, red and violet floral tones, iron, and a hint of chocolate and smoke, with a really beautiful sweetness to the fruit and floral notes. It drinks more like a fine burgundy than a typical Napa cabernet, in terms of both the flavor profile with the beautifully sweet red/purple fruit & floral notes, and the concentrated flavor profile but incredibly smooth, weightless texture.
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Comment posted by Alexander Smith:
12/12/2023 4:46:00 PM - Great tasting note, interested to know how long you decanted this for?
Comment posted by Robmcl920:
12/12/2023 5:08:00 PM - Thanks Alex - no decant, this was just pop and pour. Maybe it was in a period where it was particularly accessible, but this was wide open immediately.