1990 Robert Mondavi Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  6/17/2022 - larryw wrote: 94 Points

  Dark cherry color with no browning on edges. Dry nose, wood, cedar. Taste all fruit! Long finish. Smooth and well balanced.

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  8/6/2015 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 91 Points

  Double Blind Tasting w/ DC Crew (Weygandt Wines - Washington, D.C.): Nose is complex and shifting, still fruity (red cherries, currants and apple peels) mixed with tobacco, bell pepper, soy and dried roses. On the palate, the wine still shows some tannic structure, some refreshing cooler vintage acid. Dusty, savory, spicy, loamy, complex, but still bright and fruity. Wow, after four hours open this really started to sing, the acid and tannins aligning and coming into focus. The mushroom, earth and spice rub flavors get more and more exotic. I was worried because the cork was soaked all the way, but it came out with care and the wine showed far better than I imagined. 13% alcohol, includes 15% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc, the wine is aged 22 months in French oak.

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  3/13/2014 - bengti wrote: 90 Points

  smooth yet intense, big and bold, would make an excellent pairing with meats of all sorts. tannins were fine.

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  2/14/2013 - glennramsdell wrote: 90 Points

  Bright, spicy nose with hints of cinnamon and plum. Mature and well-rounded on the palate. This won't knock your socks off (in a good way) due its relatively low 13% alochol. Tannins are soft but present. Touch of mineral on the finish. Loamy. Don't need food to enjoy this fine, understated Cab. Tasters split on this wine, likely due to different preferences for CA cab styles.

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  12/23/2012 - bevetroppo wrote: 86 Points

  Finding this wine on cellar tracker is like a game of survivor. There are at least 5 possible entries including one that has a label image of a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. C'mon man! Get your schist together!
  
  I drank the regular Mondavi bottling happily through the '94 vintage before it got a little too ripe for me and prices escalated. No expectations on opening - hell, I paid $10 for this and it's almost 23 years old. Any drinking pleasure is a plus. And that's what you get: faintest hints of blackberry fruit, a wide swath of graphite, cedar, tobacco, almost non-existent but still drying tannins on the finish. Vaguely Bordeaux-ish reflecting a now lost tilt towards elegance. You can drink this and it might yet marry well with certain foods that can extract the fruit-something even more austere-tasting,whatever that could be-but it has one foot in the grave. You better go now...

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