2008 Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
The Wine Advocate
RP 95
Reviewed by:Antonio Galloni
Release Price:$135
Drink Date:2013 - 2028 ⇒ 飲み頃に入っています
The 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is a big wine loaded with black fruit, cedar, licorice, grilled herbs and tar. Layers of flavor build effortlessly to the muscular, virile finish. Despite its size, the 2008 Reserve maintains elements of classicism that serve to balance some of the wine’s more extroverted leanings. The wine impresses for its depth, expressive inner perfume and beautifully integrated tannins. It is a showstopper from Mondavi. The 2008 Reserve is 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet Franc and 7% Petit Verdot. Anticipated maturity: 2013-2028.
Published: Dec 23, 2011
1997 Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
The Wine Advocate
RP 92
Reviewed by:Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Release Price:$150
Drink Date:2005 - 2025 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
As for the 1997 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve, this wine seems more subdued than it did last year and might be going through a relatively closed stage. As it sat in the glass, it took on an almost Ducru-Beaucaillou or Leoville-Las Cases St.-Julien-like character, with notes of minerals, cedar wood, black currants, tobacco, and spice.
2006 Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
The Wine Advocate
RP 94
Reviewed by:Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Release Price:$100
Drink Date:2008 - 2028 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve offers a beautiful perfume of violets, black currants, and subtle oak, lead pencil shavings, and spice characteristics. This full-bodied, creamy textured Cabernet possesses superb concentration, lovely purity, and a multilayered mouthfeel. It should drink well for two decades or more.
2005 Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
The Wine Advocate
RP 95
Reviewed by:Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Release Price:$135
Drink Date:2015 - 2035
This is a beautiful 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve from Mondavi. The wine, a blend of 94% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% Cabernet Franc, has a youthful, opaque bluish/purple color and a classic nose of lead pencil shavings, crème de cassis, licorice, and subtle, toasty French oak. Some chocolate also makes an appearance. Approachable, this full-bodied, beautifully concentrated and handsome Cabernet Sauvignon strikes me as one of the superb efforts the Mondavi Winery has produced, and should age effortlessly for another 20+ years. Given the bevy of $200+ Napa Cabernets these days, at $135.00, this is not a best buy, but it’s certainly a compelling price point, given this stunner. Drink it over the next 20 years. P.S. Once again, the vintage’s incredible freshness, vibrancy and precision are well displayed in this wine and, as I have indicated so many times in this horizontal, this is a striking characteristic in the manner the 2005s have evolved.
2003 Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
The Wine Advocate
RP 93
Reviewed by:Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Release Price:$135
Drink Date:2013 - 2028 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
A dense ruby/purple color is followed by a wine exhibiting notes of creme de cassis, subtle and unobtrusive oak, medium to full body, impeccable balance and everything synchronized into a lush, opulent wine that finished with 14.5% alcohol. It is not the most complex Mondavi Reserve, but it is a very satisfying, highbrow wine that offers plenty of pleasure both hedonistically and intellectually. It should drink well for another 15 years, and it may surprise me with more nuances and subtleties than it now suggests.