Vineyard 7&8
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Vineyard 7&8 2008 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- $125
It’s hard to exaggerate the purity of this wine, which is 100% Cabernet. It startles for the intensity of mountain blackberries and raspberries, and then a firm minerality kicks in, along with the tannins, providing grounding structure. The finish lasts for a full minute. Winemaker Luc Morlet has really hit the jackpot with this dry, spectacularly complex young…
— S.H.
(11/1/2011)
Vineyard 7&8 2007 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- Online Exclusive
- $125
Bring this bottle straight to the cellar. Don’t even think about opening it before, say, 2013. All you’ll get is a mouthful of hard, sandpapery tannins. But it’s a very deeply flavored Cabernet, packed with massive blackberry, black currant, plum and cedar flavors, and there’s a granitic minerality that must come from the soil. Very finely crafted.
— S.H.
(8/1/2010)
Vineyard 7&8 2009 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- $125
). Vineyard 7&8’s Spring Mountain Estate Cabernets require aging to show their best, and so it is with this 2009. It’s dry, tannic and unrewarding now due to its astringency and acidity. But it has a terrific heart of blackberries and minerals that’s vast and rich—indicative of great growing conditions. It should begin to come into its own after 2015.
— S.H.
(9/1/2012)
Vineyard 7&8 2003 Vineyard 8 Reserve Chardonnay (Spring Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- $50
This is a wine to age, or at least to decant. Opened young it shows a hard steely character, even a tannic toughness, that only hints at what’s to come. But older examples prove its ageability. This is a Grand Cru Chablis-style Chardonnay of enormous depth and vast potential. Open through 2010, and don’t serve it too cold.
— S.H.
(12/31/2006)
Vineyard 7&8 2006 7 Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- $75
A lovely Cabernet Sauvignon that shows its fine mountain pedigree. Accessible now, with decanting, for the upfront blackberry, black currant, plum, sweet cedar and mineral flavors that feel so rich and balanced and drily tannic. Should develop well over the next 6-8 years.
— S.H.
(2/1/2010)
Vineyard 7&8 2007 7 Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- Online Exclusive
- $75
Lots of chocolate, oak and blackberry-infused flavor in this dry, tannic young wine. It sure is tight, almost rude in its immaturity, with an astringency that makes the palate pucker. But it’s so deep and dense, so packed with intensity, you just know it will come around in the cellar. 2013–2019.
— S.H.
(8/1/2010)
Vineyard 7&8 2008 7 Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- $75
Another wonderful Cabernet from this fine winery, which manages to finesse Spring Mountain’s notorious tannins. While it’s diamond hard and dry, with a brittle minerality, it’s extravagantly lush in blackberry, cherry, cassis and licorice fruit, accented with 95% new French oak. Lay it down for a good 6–8 years.
— S.H.
(11/1/2011)
Vineyard 7&8 2001 Vineyard 8 Reserve Chardonnay (Spring Mountain)
- $45
Fresh and racy, with big, tight acidity and a stony minerality that brings the Central Coast to mind. There are underlying fruit complexities of lime zest and pineapple, with a buttercream texture and a sweet layering of toasty oak. Distinguished Chardonnay.
— S.H.
(8/1/2005)
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