Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon - 1996 (750ml) large format Despite its precociousness and up-front

Despite its precociousness and up-front style

Sweetly rich wine

An iconic wine as well as a remarkable achievement

Showing incredibly well at two tastings of 2000s

Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon - 1996 (750ml) large format Despite its precociousness and up-frontA behemoth Cabernet Sauvignon is the stern, tannic, concentrated 1996 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate (13. 5% alcohol). Full bodied, but closed, with gorgeously pure black fruits, powerful, loamy, earthy scents along with fruit and extract, this wine also needs 5 6 years of cellaring, and should easily last through the first 2 3 decades of the next century. Robert Parker 93 points