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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.3 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 17 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by golfhawk on 2/15/2024 & rated 86 points: Over extracted and out of balance. I will wait on the last one to see if it changes at all. (147 views) | | | Tasted by boston617 on 3/17/2021 & rated 96 points: Nice big cab with strong berry notes and hint of grass and cardamom. (1551 views) | | | Tasted by macliii on 6/1/2020 & rated 92 points: Good balance and acidity with some nice cherry and spice notes and a medium finish. Got better an hour after opening so probably had many years left in the bottle. Wish I bought more at the time. (2090 views) | | | Tasted by isaacjamesbaker on 6/27/2019 & rated 90 points: Lots of California wines: Medium purple. Nose shows chilled black cherries and gobs of black currants, with coffee, vanilla, cinnamon, clove and sweet violets. Big, full-bodied (15.5%) with structured tannins yet rounded around the edges, and medium acidity helps tone down the burly nature. Black cherries, black currants, rich but tangy fruit, laced with cedar, coffee, vanilla, mint, with earthy, charcoal notes. Herbal tones come out with air. Lovely stuff that could use some cellar love. Cabernet Sauvignon with 3% Petite Sirah, aged 18 months in 53% new French and American oak. 86% Sonoma County, 14% Napa County. (3307 views) | | | Tasted by Willardjackson on 6/16/2019 & rated 91 points: A big bold can, dark fruit and a touch sweet. Reminds me a bit of an Orin Swift cab. Really packs a punch and finishes off smooth. Enjoyed this a great deal. (2881 views) | | | Tasted by Ash Man ATX on 3/24/2019 & rated 96 points: This was fantastic (2864 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 9/22/2018 & rated 87 points: Tasting, brief note. From both Napa and Sonoma fruit, mostly mountain fruit. Rich plum and black cherry with vanilla and chocolate notes. Slightly sweet spice. Good balance and structure, showing the mountain fruit character. Good now with a nice richness, but simple. (3112 views) | | | Tasted by esw423 on 3/19/2018 & rated 90 points: Well structured Sonoma/Napa cab. Very dry and tannic upon opening but softened quickly in the glass. Enjoyable without food but would definitely be better with. Drank with JR in my cellar. (2736 views) | | | Tasted by lutzie99 on 12/31/2017: Awesome! (2063 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 10/31/2017: Big and full, the sweetness here works better, drying tannins, just opened, with some power, 14% Napa fruit. (2732 views) | | | Tasted by Badmonkey on 10/14/2017 & rated 91 points: Tasting at a local wine store. Similar notes as the last tasting around a week ago. Purple fruit - blackberry, blueberry, and dark currants. Smooth mid-palate with solid depth and purity especially for the price point. Decent finish but not overly long nor deep. According to the store, this bottle was open for a couple hours which appeared to help - I thought this bottle showed a little better. Once again 92+ rating from Parker. (3769 views) |
| Mount Peak Winery Producer Website
The story of Mount Peak Winery begins more than a century ago at the celebrated Monte Rosso Vineyard and culminates with the recent revival of the brand by E. J. Gallo (one of America's largest family-owned wine companies). A vestige of one of California's great "ghost" wineries, the wines are a tribute to the extraordinary facility that once stood there. Originally built in 1886, Mount Peak was a marvel of innovation with its three-story, gravity-flow system built from rock directly sourced from the dry-farmed Monte Rosso vineyard. While it ultimately emerged as one of California's top producers, it was closed during Prohibition and left abandoned to the elements, laying silent for decades.
Over 130 years later, Gallo has revived the site and the vineyard, perched at nearly 1,300 feet along the spine of the Mayacamas Mountains, straddling the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. The steep hillsides are set against a dramatic backdrop and the new Mount Peak label will focus on Cabernet, Zinfandel, and a red blend from the original Monte Rosso fruit. Made from 97% Cabernet and 3% Petite Syrah, 82% of the fruit comes from the Sentinel block of the Monte Rosso vineyard with the additional fruit coming from Napa and Sonoma counties.
The Monte Rosso vineyard itself straddle the boundary between Sonoma and Napa, and is an ancient, terra-rossa strewn site that has produced some of the regions most acclaimed (and highly rated wines). Think BIG Parker scores of the last decade or two, and you will no doubt find the name Monte Rosso appearing somewhere in the list. It's an enigmatic vineyard, and is known to produce quite shapely, power driven reds, with muscular tannins.Mount Peak Winery Cabernet Sauvignon SentinelWinemaker Notes
Sentinel Cabernet Sauvignon is inspired by the shield-shaped block overseeing the entrance to Monte Rosso Vineyard, a site that produces grapes with the layers and power that are the foundation of great Cabernet.
This beautiful, deep crimson colored wine possesses full tannins and intensely concentrated fruit. Savory aromas mix with lavender and dark fruit leading to a rich mouthfeel with waves of dark cherry, blackberry and a touch of spice. The extended finish melds the fruit together with hints of nutty toasted oak, pecan praline and caramel.Cabernet SauvignonCabernet 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 SauvignonUSAAmerican 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.California2021 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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma CountySonoma Coast |
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