2015 Dunn Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain Napa Valley

Regular price $350.00

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96 Decanter - Wonderfully fresh and mineral-intense. Exotic brown spices join layers of black tea and bergamot, intertwined with a salty thread of minerality. This medium to full-bodied wine remains youthful, reticent, and highly intellectual, with lifted acidity. Notes of bay leaf and bay laurel are intertwined with kirsch. Pair it with something smoky, like smoked duck or lamb. Made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, sourced from multiple parcels at 550-670 metres in elevation, the wine is fermented in stainless steel tanks with 3-4 daily pumpovers and aged for up to 32 months in 100% new French oak.

96 Jeb Dunnuck - Coming from tiny yields and a hotter vintage, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain is a much more up-front, sweetly fruited, sexy wine compared to the more brooding, Bordeaux-like 2014, although there’s no shortage of structure and tannins in this 2015. Giving up a great nose of kirsch liqueur, blackcurrants, sandalwood, sweet tobacco, and exotic spices, this beauty hits the palate with full-bodied richness, a layered, elegant texture, beautiful overall balance, and a great finish. There’s just a subtle firmer edge to the tannins here, which is common in the vintage, that I suspect will always be there, but the fruit is beautifully pure, it has remarkable sweetness (ripeness, not residual sugar), great balance, and it’s just a singular wine in the lineup.

95 Vinous - The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon (Howell Mountain) offers a striking balance of intense richness from the low yields on the mountain and the intensely mineral/savory qualities that are such signatures of the Dunn Howell Mountain Cabernet. Graphite, smoke, grilled herbs, crème de cassis, menthol and iron build into the huge finish. The tannins are there, but they are buried by the sheer intensity of the fruit.

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