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1992 Harlan Estate

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February 18, 2024 - $975

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RATINGS

96Robert M. Parker Jr.

It offers a dense purple color, and a splendid sweet nose of minerals, blackcurrants, toast, and spice.

96James Suckling

...very balanced...with mint and rosemary and dried fruit character...full-bodied, has super fine tannins and a long finish.

95Vinous / IWC

...exotic, aromatically complex and quite delicate.

91Wine Spectator

Young, firm and tannic, with a cedary oak accent. Once it opens up, it shows more currant and plum flavors, but it takes a while to work through the tannic veneer.

17.5Jancis Robinson

...there are beautiful elements here. A constellation of elements – roses and violets with just a touch of lavender, mixed stone fruits, some fresh mountain herbs. The tannin is firm and abundant without being hard or angular. The acidity is balanced with good length...lovely wine...

REGION

United States, California, Napa Valley

Napa Valley AVA is the most famous winemaking region in the United States and one of the most prestigious in the world. With nearly 43,000 acres of vineyards and more than 300 wineries, it is the heart of fine wine production in the United States. Winemaking started in Napa in 1838 when George C. Yount planted grapes and began producing wine commercially. Other winemaking pioneers followed in the late 19th century, including the founders of Charles Krug, Schramsberg, Inglenook and Beaulieu Vineyards. An infestation of phylloxera, an insect that attacks vine roots, and the onset of Prohibition nearly wiped out the nascent Napa wine industry in the early 20th century. But by the late 1950s and early 1960s Robert Mondavi and other visionaries were producing quality wines easily distinguishable from the mass-produced jug wines made in California’s Central Valley. Napa Valley’s AVA was established in 1983, and today there are 16 sub-appellations within the Napa Valley AVA. Many grapes grow well in Napa’s Mediterranean climate, but the region is best known for Cabernet Sauvignon. Chardonnay is also very successfully cultivated, and about 30% of the AVA’s acreage is planted to white grapes, with the majority of those grapes being Chardonnay,