1983 Heitz Cellar Cabernet Sauvignon Martha's Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  4/18/2024 - Satoshi Nakamoto Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Perfectly balanced. Light red fruit, graphite, forest floor. Bold and fresh, but drier than expected. Eucalyptus and minty notes not present. @Pinotlui guessed Napa Cab from the 70s and Raymond guessed right bank Bordeaux. Nice!

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  9/28/2023 - Robert N's Wine Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Purchased at auction, this bottle was in great condition with a perfect cork. It had a beautiful rich ruby color with a wide opaque rim in the glass. Refined nose of berry, plum, and some stewed fruit. The taste was a strong sweet cherry and buttery palette, reminiscent of cherry pie, and had no hint of the age or oxidation. The finish was long with a light holiday spice notes. The tannins were gone but did not leave the wine lacking. This bottle was drinking amazingly, and had no sediment to the last drop.

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  10/23/2022 - Cailles wrote: 97 Points

  Heitz MV vs Dominus: 1983/1987/1991. Heitz Martha's won the battle (95.3 pts average vs 93.7pts for Dominus) thanks to more complexity and rounder, completer structural frames. My WOTN was the 1983 MV (rated 97 pts) thanks to an ever changing, highly complex aroma play, with a superb, elegant structure. In its first few years, Dominus (maiden vintage 1983) produced very classically shaped Bordeaux blends, great but often a bit square and with some hard edges. 1983/87 were no exception. In the 90s that changed (proved here by a superb 1991). All in all, lots of excellent wines and all worth chasing.
  
  TN: At first a bit oxidative and rather unpleasant but luckily that blew off after a few minutes. With time more precise and clean with dried fruit, and malty notes, some chocolate and herbs. With more time, black fruit underneath. Very intriguing. On the palate very fresh, very round and harmonious, so creamy and yet weightless and light. Full dark berry core, a with some dried but also fresh and zesty fruit, mostly dark berries, a clear and signature minty component, beautiful malty and some herbal touches. Towards the end of the glass, suddenly more milk chocolate and coffee notes came forward. Quite complex, changing with every sip. Wow. The wine got fresher and more vivid by the minute. Lots of tension, superb velvety tannins, good acidity, lots of zest, very harmonious, elegant and round and with a long finish. Very complete wine. 97+ pts and one of the best 1983s I’ve ever had.
  
  Decanting: This bottle would have needed an hour+ in the decanter.

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  9/30/2022 - G_H wrote: 95 Points

  Very clean nose, right after opening the bottle. The wine developed nice mint and eucalyptus notes with some dried fruit and some autumn forest notes. This bottle was a bit on the lighter side, but beautifully elegant and the clean Martha's notes were a delight!

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  6/7/2022 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  Wine Workshop: Heitz Martha's Vineyard (The Dutch): Another wine that was a bit different and maybe most of the difference is the fruit is really more in the dried style and the wine as a whole comes across as a bit more savory. Dried meats and a bit of soy sauce and a hint of forest floor. Not quite at the level as some of the others, but again still a good wine.

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