Terra Valentine
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Terra Valentine 2002 Wurtele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- Editors' Choice
- $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)
Terra Valentine 2009 Marriage Red (Spring Mountain)
- $80
Few wines in the world can boast this concentration of ripe, flashy fruit. It’s decadent and enormous in blackberries, cherries, currants, licorice, bacon and spice flavors, which are all melted into the perfect fusion of alcohol and warmth, and elaborated with smoky, toasty oak. With its level of elegance, this is wonderful now, and it should drink well over the…
— S.H.
(9/1/2012)
Terra Valentine 2007 Wurtele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- $65
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)
Terra Valentine 2008 Marriage Red (Spring Mountain)
- $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)
Terra Valentine 2006 Wurtele Vineyard Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- Online Exclusive
- $60
Stunning, dramatic, but nowhere near ready to drink. Dry and complex in mountain tannins, the wine displays massively deep flavors of blackberries and cassis, and the new oak is substantial and sweet. Try holding until after 2010, and should develop for an additional six years.
— S.H.
(12/1/2009)
Terra Valentine 2009 Wurtele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- Editors' Choice
- $65
This stands out from the pack for the sheer complexity of its flavors, as well as the structural integrity. It’s absolutely dry, and the tannins are strong, in the Spring Mountain way. The fruit is terrifically concentrated, with potent flavors of blackberry, currant, dark chocolate and anise; there’s a lovely olive note that grounds the wine and makes it earthy…
— S.H.
(9/1/2012)
Terra Valentine 2010 Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- $45
Exceptionally ripe, concentrated mountain fruit as well as hard tannins characterize this fresh, young Cabernet. Through the tannic astringency, intense flavors of black currants, dark chocolate and the sweet sap of oak shine through. Needs time. Hold until 2016 and see how it’s doing.
— S.H.
(6/1/2013)
Terra Valentine 2005 Wurtele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- $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)
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