Wines from Napa-Sonoma
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Pride Mountain 2003 Reserve Claret Red (Napa-Sonoma)
- Editors' Choice
- $120
If you’re lucky enough to try this with Pride’s reserve Cab, which is 100% varietal, you’ll find this one fleshier and meatier. Based on Merlot, it shows a voluptuous fatness, a chocolate-covered cherry candy immediacy, that makes it drinkable now. At the same time, it has big, dusty, mouth-coating tannins. Drink now, with decanting, or cellar for 10 years.
— S.H.
(3/1/2007)
Chandon 2001 Étoile Tête de Cuvée Sparkling (Napa-Sonoma)
- $100
A toasty yeast note has taken center stage of this blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, providing that uniquely Champagne-like accent to California’s ripe strawberry, raspberry and lime flavors. Despite the ripe fruit flavors, the finish is dry and tart in acidity. It gets even better as it warms in the glass, displaying compelling complexities.
— S.H.
(11/1/2012)
Pride Mountain 1999 Merlot (Napa-Sonoma)
- Editors' Choice
- $48
What power and drama have gone into this wonderful wine. Sheer Pomerol, with pencil shaving, black cherry, cedar, chocolate and gamy-meaty aromas and flavors, tinged with violets, and the most voluptuous mouthfeel. Sheer hedonism right through the long sweet finish.
— S.H.
(6/1/2002)
Pride Mountain 2003 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa-Sonoma)
- Cellar Selection
- $120
What a wine. Take one of those hugely gooey, famous winemaker Napa Cabs, the kind that melt on your palate like butter on toast or chocolate in a microwave, and add fierce mountain tannins, and this is what you get. A humungous, dry, important Cab, one that desperately needs cellaring. Ten years should do it; 20 might be better. The spicy blackberry and cherry…
— S.H.
(3/1/2007)
Pride Mountain 1998 Merlot (Napa-Sonoma)
- $38
Sleek and elegant, the wine is blessed with fine tannins and supple texture, and its blackberry, plum, cassis, chocolate and herb flavors flood the palate in a rush that finishes long and luxuriously. Top-notch Merlot.
— J.M.
(12/1/2001)
Pride Mountain 2002 Merlot (Napa-Sonoma)
- Editors' Choice
- $52
What a fabulous Merlot. Yes, it’s dense in texture, like molten metal, with melted tannins, but it’s kept lively with clean acids. Meanwhile, the flavors are sheer mountain fruit: concentrated blackberries and cherries and decadent mocha. Complex, elegant and addictively good.
— S.H.
(6/1/2005)
Pride Mountain 2008 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa-Sonoma)
- Cellar Selection
- Online Exclusive
- $130
Abundantly rich in fruit, this Cabernet shows its California origins in the incredibly ripe blackberry, cherry and chocolate flavors. It’s sweet, almost like pie filling, except the finish is thoroughly dry. Thick mountain tannins make for astringency, suggesting ageworthiness. The window of drinkability looks like 2014-2016.
— S.H.
(7/1/2012)
Pride Mountain 2008 Reserve Claret (Napa-Sonoma)
- Cellar Selection
- Online Exclusive
- $130
Few Bordeaux-style wines in California are as ripe and bold as this, but that’s the Pride style. The wine explodes in spicy blackberry, currant and cherry fruit, almost like punch, while oak adds toasty notes. A heady wine, it’s also brutally firm in tannins. It’s a little warm in alcohol, but that shouldn’t keep it from aging for at least eight years—and maybe longer.
— S.H.
(7/1/2012)
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