1997 Dunn Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain

Community Tasting Notes (146) Avg Score: 92.7 points

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  12/25/2023 - wine4lux Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Drank with Christmas dinner, filets, baked potatoes and roasted cauliflower. The wine is at an unbelievable phase. The bouquet is magnificent, from the moment I smelled the wine I knew it would be special. Unbelievably smooth and polished tannins with energetic fruit- beautiful red fruit notes with a touch of spice. Decanted through vinturi about two hours before serving. About the right lead time. Other than a cork that crumbled, there was no sign that this wine was 26 years old.

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  11/24/2023 - thelostverse wrote: 93 Points

  Another Allred bottle on Friendsgiving. Similar notes to prior bottle from almost ten years ago. These Dunn HM bottlings seem to go on and on.

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  11/24/2023 - AllRed wrote: 92 Points

  Decanted off its sediment and followed off and on over a few hours. Deep youthful ruby/crimson core with a bit of bricking. Opens with a bit of earthy funk which tails off, replaced by black currant, saddle leather and cigar box notes. Fully-integrated, this shows currant, leather and baked plum flavors. Balanced. Nice complexity, good fruit; my only real complaint is that this was just a bit thin across the midpalate. In a nice place right now, I see no reason to hold any longer.

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  11/23/2023 - Walike54 wrote: 97 Points

  Drank this in a magnum. Bought at Randy’s place. Nose jumped out of the glass. Bit of a Bordeaux nose with leather, tertiary smells of dark fruit. Medium tannins and drinking nicely now but still has a lot of life left. I would love to try it with a Mouton or Lynch Bages side by side. I have benn drinking Dunn since the 1995 vintage age and most of the bottles have been drunk too young. But this is so enjoyable.

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  11/1/2023 - drew@estatewinebrokers.com Likes this wine: 92 Points

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