1995 Robert Mondavi Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (208) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  11/5/2023 - talbot61 Likes this wine:

  Boston Wine + Poker, Salem, Mass.: Tasted blind. Some reduction. A lot of sweet fruit. Nicely aged. More mellow than intense.

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  10/8/2023 - asteff wrote:

  Decent bottle. Some green bell pepper notes.

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  7/23/2023 - TGOT Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Spectacular. Age has treated augmented this already excellent wine into something special. Or maybe it’s just my wheelhouse. Smooth and silky, with perfectly integrated tannins, black fruit and sweet tobacco. Yes please!

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  8/23/2022 - kevinpatrick Likes this wine:

  One Year Anniversary CLT Tasting Group (82 Giacosa, 86 Las Casas, 91 Heitz Matha's & More) (Charlotte, NC): 2 hour slo-ox before serving. Almost certainly should have decanted the wine. My first love and the wine that changed my (wine) life. Nose of dark blackberries and earthiness – more Old World than the Heitz Martha’s. On the palate a lush mouthfeel layers into a delicate tapestry of black raspberries, blackberries and cassis. With some time, the hints of cigar box and graphite dustings give this wine a delicious complexity. A savory finish really brings this wine home. A pure expression of 1990s Napa Cabernet before the higher alcohol, fruit-forward more singular expression profile became the standard. 3rd place for WOTN followed closely by the 86 Las Casas and 91 Heitz Matha’s

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  7/19/2022 - ikkaariainen Likes this wine: 94 Points

  100% cabernet sauvignon from the famed Mondavi Oakville To Kalon vineyards. Highly recommend, drinking superbly and at or perhaps just slightly past peak. Virtually indistinguishable from a high end L bank bdx except maybe a bit rounder and fuller bodied. Had at our wine club tasting that Kim & I hosted 7/19/22 in Hickory NC at restaurant BOCA in a flight with 3 other high end '95 CA cabernet dominant wines. Drink or hold but don't hold too much longer - time to drink up remaining holdings in the next 2-3 years. We recently obtained 2 of these bottles as part of a much larger cellar contents purchase. Reddish purple, peripheral bricking present, surprisingly opaque, fully integrated, soft mouth feel, medium+ bodied, well integrated soft oak & soft tannins still detectable with a good fruit core present and surprisingly fruit forward at this stage. Lovely long lingering aftertaste. Nose soft, dark and complex with plum, black cherry, licorice, cedar and smoke. Flavor profile up front of dark stone fruit, cassis and blueberry followed by more spicy 2nd flavors of cedar, licorice, black tea, graphite and cigar box. A truly amazing cabernet which speaks to the quality with which this terroir pairs with these specific cab sauv clones.

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