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2016 Hertelendy Signature Mountain Red Blend

Removed from a temperature and humidity controlled wine storage unit

Ends Sunday, 7pm Pacific

RATINGS

96Jeb Dunnuck

...powerful yet supple and seamless blend that gives up plenty of red and black fruits, toasted spice, chocolate, and graphite aromas and flavors. Concentrated, super-rich, yet perfectly balanced...

94The Wine Advocate

...opening out to reveal notions of warm plums, blackberry pie and forest floor with nuances of baking spices, potpourri and dusty soil. Full-bodied and laden with plum preserves and loads of spicy layers, it has a firm, rounded tannin texture and earth-laced finish.

94Vinous / IWC

...notable freshness to play off the intense jammy fruit... Red cherry preserves, cloves, new leather, cinnamon and mocha all infuse this super-appealing, textured wine...

93Wine Spectator

Big and rich, featuring ripe dark fruit and Asian spice flavors that turn creamy midpalate. Concentrated dark chocolate accents show on the powerful finish, with lithe minerality and savoriness.

93James Suckling

Very rich and ripe dark fruit, framed in mocha and toffee-scented oak, leading to a ripe palate that has plum-paste and spiced-fig flavors. Soft, ripe, baking spice-infused finish. Toasty oak, too.

93Wine Enthusiast

A tangy opening makes its way to a rich center of length and breadth, tasting of cassis, dark chocolate and cherry, the tannins well integrated and sleek.

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,

VINTAGE

2016 Hertelendy Signature Mountain Red Blend