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Vineyard 7&8 2008 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)

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Price $125

Top 100 Cellar Selections 2011

Score Chasers: USA 2011

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)

Terra Valentine 2002 Wurtele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)

Editors' Choice

Price $50

This single-vineyard bottling is great. It’s a huge, deep wine, brilliant in black currant, green olive and cocoa flavors, yet packed in big-time mountain tannins that pretty much shut it down on the finish. If you buy a case, begin popping corks in 2008. If you have a single bottle, it should be great in ten years, if cellared properly. — S.H. (4/1/2006)

Barnett 2006 Rattlesnake Hill Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)

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Price $125

This is a tremendous Cabernet Sauvignon, but be warned, it’s so tannic, it makes your tongue curl. That’s what mountain grapes, grown at 2,000 feet with low yields and small berries, do. Such is the core of black currants, however, that aging is not a problem. With its dryness, intensity and overall balance, it should easily negotiate the next decade. Really… — S.H. (6/1/2009)

Terra Valentine 2007 Wurtele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)

Cellar Selection

Price $65

Top 100 Cellar Selections 2011

Score Chasers: USA 2011

A well-made wine, showing lots of terroir in the mineral-infused blackberry, black currant, chocolate and anise flavors. The tannins are structurally superb, while the finish is dry and complex. A very fine wine that should gather momentum for at least a decade. — S.H. (6/1/2011)

Barnett 2005 Rattlesnake Hill Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)

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Price $120

Rattlesnake Hill is on the estate, more than 2,000 feet up in the Mayacamas above St. Helena. Typically tannic, in the way of Spring Mountain Cabs, the ’05 is a dramatically structured wine that dazzles with power. Made entirely from Cabernet Sauvignon, it shows classic varietal flavors of black currants, cherries, licorice and spices, while mostly new French oak… — S.H. (6/1/2008)

Terra Valentine 2008 Marriage Red (Spring Mountain)

Price $75

A best-of-barrels blend from the classic Bordeaux varieties, this wine is delicious. It’s not hard for Napa to ripen fruit to blackberry and cherry perfection, or for the winemaker to age the wine in the best oak. What’s difficult is to house all this richness in such smooth tannins, with such depth and such a pure finish. A spectacularly good wine to drink now… — S.H. (12/1/2011)

Barnett 2007 Rattlesnake Hill Estate Bottled Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)

Price $125

A tremendous wine that easily merits being Barnett’s most expensive release. Shows the ripe blackberry and black currant flavors and new oak that are so easily achieved, with yet near perfect tannins and a dryness unusual in a Cabernet this fruity. The combination of opposites makes this mountain wine noteworthy, as well as ageable. Now–2017. — S.H. (6/1/2010)

Terra Valentine 2005 Wurtele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)

Price $60

A gorgeous Cab, rich and complex, that perfectly shows the deep, strong tannins and impeccable structure of Spring Mountain, and Mayacamas Cabs in general. Perfectly ripe in black currants and tobacco, with exotic cedar and mineral overtones, it’s beautiful now despite the tannins, but has the balanced stuffing to age effortlessly for a decade. — S.H. (11/1/2008)

2009 Merry Edwards Klopp Ranch

Amazingly rich, offering deep, complex layers of cherries, black…

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