CellarTracker!™

Search: (advanced)


External search
Google (images)
Wine Advocate
Wine Spectator
Burghound
Wine-Searcher

Vintages
2021
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
N.V.

From this producer
Show all wines
All tasting notes
  Home | All Cellars | Tasting Notes | Reports | UsersHelp | Member Sign In 
  >> USE THE NEW CELLARTRACKER <<


 Vintage2018 Label 1 of 13 
TypeRed
ProducerRobert Mondavi Winery (web)
VarietyCabernet Sauvignon
Designationn/a
VineyardTwin Oaks
CountryUSA
RegionCalifornia
SubRegionn/a
AppellationCalifornia
UPC Code(s)086003820272

Drinking Windows and Values
Drinking window: Drink between 2021 and 2025 (based on 8 user opinions)

Community Tasting History

Community Tasting Notes (average 76.3 pts. and median of 76 pts. in 4 notes) - hiding notes with no text

 Tasted by trastevere on 5/6/2023 & rated 87 points: Medium-bodied, with nice dark berry aromas, and fresh blackcurrant and plum on the palate, smooth soft tannins and a decent red berry finish. (493 views)
 Tasted by GlennRyder on 2/19/2021 & rated 73 points: Nice Cabernet, however too much oak-cask taste. Seems to me a bit like an artificially composed wine with mainstream flavour of fruit, oak, and some tannines. Nothing genuine nor any real unique expression. Certainly a nice wine pleasing a general audience but disappointing if you have some experience with red wines. (1005 views)
 Tasted by GlennRyder on 12/8/2020 & rated 65 points: Actually a fruity and earthy wine, however in my opinion to much of barrique taste, almost like artificial added flavour. Less would more in this case. (1002 views)

CellarTracker Wiki Articles (login to edit | view all articles)

Robert Mondavi Winery

Producer website

Producer website

Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.

Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet Sauvignon

USA

American wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.

California

2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson

California

Napa Valley.http://www.stagecoachvineyard.com/vineyards/our_vineyards.php
Santa Ynez.http://www.everyvine.com/org/Camp_Four/vineyard/Camp_Four/

 
© 2003-24 CellarTracker! LLC. All rights reserved. "CellarTracker!" is a trademark of CellarTracker! LLC. No part of this website may be used, reproduced or distributed without the prior written permission of CellarTracker! LLC. (Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.) - Follow us on Twitter and on Facebook