Montelena, The Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon other_regions_italy Offering up an incipiently complex

Offering up an incipiently complex bouquet of orchard fruit

serious and youthfully austere finish

This is excellent

This is definitely relatively forward for a young CC and a wine that should be reasonably approachable earlier than usual

Montelena, The Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon other_regions_italy Offering up an incipiently complexCurrently being offered to mailing list members as part of a three vintage pack (2008, 2013, 2018 for $700), the 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate is a killer wine that should continue to drink well for another 15 years or so. It offers up evolved notes of cigar box but remains fresh, with intense redcurrant and cassis still in evidence on the nose. Medium to full bodied, it's silky, aristocratic in bearing and long on the finish.