Tasting Notes on this wine.
All through its life in the cellar it had a super concentration of fruit and really smooth style, thanks to our new super precise de-stemmer installed in 1990. When you taste this wine, I think your first impression will be youthful softness, then concentration and richness. Still Montelena, but without the bitter tannin, and so smooth that we bottled this wine six months earlier than prior vintages. After twenty years of releasing our Cabernet in the fall, we have now changed to a spring release.