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Red
2000 Mount Eden Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon
- USA
- California
- Santa Cruz Mountains
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Community Tasting Notes 3
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Rob MacKay wrote: 90 points
September 22, 2008 - Sometimes I feel like I am living in the dark when producers like this, who are quite literally in my back yard, go by unnoticed. Mount Eden Vineyards is an icon in the Santa Cruz Mountains appellation and has been producing wine here since 1945 yet here I am having my first bottle of wine from them. I picked this up on a recommendation from my local shop and instead of going for one of the $70 or $80+ bottles from a better vintage, I went with this bottle from 2000, which was arguably a pretty bad vintage in comparison to the rest of the last 15 or 20 years in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This allowed me to spend less money on a producer I hadn't tried before and give me an idea of what their wine was like in an off vintage. If you can do good with a bad vintage then you should be able to do great things in a good year right? This wine definitely surprised me and was great right out of the bottle with bright fruit on the nose featuring currants and crushed black cherries mixed with some tobacco and a slight herbal element. The wine is very smooth and quite well structured. I could ask for a little more from the finish, which was brief, and there isn't much left in the way of tannins but for the vintage, I think this is great stuff.
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JeffFaust wrote: 84 points
December 3, 2007 - Black-purple. Nose of oak and vanilla, but no fruit. On the palate, more oak. Well balanced acidity and tannins. Shortish finish.
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SantaFeTopher wrote: 89 points
October 16, 2007 - Better than I expected. Just opening up at this point. Balanced, good varietal nose. Maybe a bit green still.
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By Elin McCoy
Mount Eden Cabernet 1990 to 2000, 10/23/2018 (link)(Mount Eden Vineyards, Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, San Francisco Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, California, USA, Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Stephen Tanzer
January/Febuary 2004, IWC Issue #112 (link)(Mount Eden Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Santa Cruz Mountains) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2000
- Type Red
- Producer Mount Eden Vineyards
- Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion Santa Cruz Mountains
- Appellation Santa Cruz Mountains
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 52 (46%)
- Consumed 61 (54%)
Food Pairing
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- VarietyCabernet Sauvignon
- CountryUSA
- RegionCalifornia
- AppellationSanta Cruz Mountains
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