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2008 Spring Mountain Vineyard Elivette

Red Bordeaux Blend

  • USA
  • California
  • Napa Valley
  • Spring Mountain District
Drink between 2016 - 2025 (Edit)
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Community Tasting Notes 21

  • pdadams66 Likes this wine: 90 points

    September 28, 2023 - From a half bottle.
    Still driving very well. Balanced fruit and sweet oak. A few years left but excellent now.

  • HandmadeHomemade Likes this wine:

    June 16, 2023 - Entering maturity, there is still an upside to storage for more tertiary notes. I think the wine has the gumption to go too. Slo ox'ed for 3hrs at cellar temp. Served without decant.

    Color is dark purple fading to a bricked rim, intense. Aroma is pronounced, and intense. Black currant black cherry, mint, oak, dusty chocolate/earth, and fermented tobacco leaf. Complex and inviting. In the mouth, the wine is full body, high alcohol, big mouthfeel. I get full glycol sweetness- lots of black cherry liqueur, combined with some silty tannins that really dry things out. The wine has the balance of a teeter-totter: one side with an elephant, opposite- another elephant. Flavors match the nose in intensity and description, you really feel that dusty cocoa though- the wine seems to be in a real happy spot as of now. Drink or hold in the next 10 or so years, well made.

  • LuisMaimoni@Yahoo.com wrote:

    May 14, 2023 - To add to the observations of others: this wine is still going strong at 2023, and can definitely be kept for longer if desired. The most interesting thing about it, to me, is how the taste/flavor profile changed over time. Don't forget to decant; there is a fair amount of sediment.

  • pdadams66 Likes this wine: 91 points

    December 13, 2022 - With Peter at Bar Agricole. Great now, will go a few more years.

  • pdadams66 Likes this wine: 91 points

    December 12, 2021 - Drinking very well - excellent Bordeaux blend, reaching maturity.

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  • By Stephen Tanzer
    May/June 2013, IWC Issue #168 (link)

    (Spring Mountain Vineyard Elivette Red Wine Napa Valley) Subscribe to see review text.

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  • By Richard Jennings
    9/9/2012 (link) 94 points

    (Spring Mountain Vineyard Elivette) Very dark red violet color; tart black fruit, dark chocolate nose; tasty, tart black fruit, dark chocolate palate; needs 4 years; long finish

Wine Definition

  • Vintage 2008
  • Type Red
  • Producer Spring Mountain Vineyard
  • Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
  • Designation Elivette
  • Vineyard n/a
  • Country USA
  • Region California
  • SubRegion Napa Valley
  • Appellation Spring Mountain District
  • UPC Codes 060878011206, 608780172063, 608780182062, 608780192061

Community Holdings

  • Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
  • In Cellars 716 (55%)
  • Consumed 586 (45%)

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