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2018 AXR Winery Artalade Montagna Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

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May 28, 2023 - $110

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RATINGS

95The Wine Advocate

...beautiful scents of violets, lavender, kirsch and cedar chest over a core of ripe blackcurrants, wild blueberries and mulberries plus a hint of tilled soil. The medium to full-bodied palate offers fantastic tension, delivering mouth-coating black fruit and a texture of exquisitely ripe, grainy tannins, finishing long and perfumed.

95James Suckling

A chewy red with lots of blackberry, blackcurrant and blueberry on the nose and palate. Hints of chocolate and walnut. Some rose petal and stone, iron, It’s full-bodied and chewy, yet nicely polished and fine.

95Jeb Dunnuck

...cassis, lavender, roasted herbs, and cedar pencil, it hits the palate with medium to full-bodied richness, a layered, ripe, yet balanced mouthfeel, and a great finish.

94Wine Enthusiast

Salty oak and a subdued structure grace this powerfully built red that is supple on the palate with well-integrated tannin...notes of crushed rock, dark chocolate and cassis.

93Wine Spectator

A solid, broad-shouldered wine, showing a muscular core of cassis, plum paste and blackberry reduction flavors laced with bittersweet cocoa, tobacco and loam notes through the finish. Features a late flash of singed cedar.

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,

TYPE

Red Wine, Cabernet Sauvignon

One of the most widely grown grape varieties, it can be found in nearly every wine growing region. A cross between Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc. It’s a hardy vine that produces a full-bodied wine with high tannins and great aging potential.