1999 Dunn Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain

Community Tasting Notes (161) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  12/1/2023 - Eagle13 wrote: 92 Points

  Included my last bottle with a ten bottle lot taken to San Francisco to auction at K&L Wine Merchants.

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  11/24/2023 - soyhead wrote:

  from magnum
  young,but (surprise!) rather closed. this wine in magnum, is, at age 24, still very furled, and has a huge future ahead

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  11/18/2023 - Eagle13 wrote: 92 Points

  Typical Dunn Howell. Still very good w 2.5 hr decant. Needed time to settle down. Old style cabernet sauvignon w great balance.

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  7/23/2023 - mowtod wrote: flawed

  Losing some fruit but still a very good’ food’wine

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  3/4/2023 - t_moderne wrote:

  Opened (broke the wax with corkscrew and then used an Ah-So as the cork crumbled a bit).
  Decanted about 3/4 of the bottle.
  Tasted upon opening and then about 1 hour later.
  Initial bouquet is a bit of cheese, leather and dried leaves along with dark fruit and a nice level of acidity.
  Opened up with time in the decanter but showed its age. Tertiary notes of leather and leaves and old books but still showing, underneath, dark fruit. The acidity keeps it fresh.
  Tasted the following day. Wine was holding up and retained its freshness - just showing more tertiary flavors than fruit.
  14.5% abv.
  Red wax capsule.
  This wine showed its age; it had been kept in good conditions (temperature managed). Just not that exciting. I expected more from this wine - solid producer from a good year.

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