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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 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 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)
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 2004 Yverdon Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- $70
A new bottling from the winery, made from vines grown 2,000 feet up the mountain that were planted only in 2001. It’s far too immature to drink now or anytime soon. The tannins are thick and on lockdown, the blackberry, cassis and cherry fruit all primary and not yet integrated with the oak. But these parts are high-quality and need time to mesh and develop. Best…
— S.H.
(3/1/2008)
Terra Valentine 2005 Yverdon Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- $70
Tough in mountain tannins to the point of astringency, this 100% Cab demands cellaring. But even through the hardness you can taste a flamboyantly ripe, exuberant wine just waiting to bust out. With a terrific heart of black currants, briary blackberries, anise, sandlewood and cedar, it should have no trouble negotiating the next decade, if not longer. Best 2009–2013.
— S.H.
(11/1/2008)
Terra Valentine 1999 Wurtele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Spring Mountain)
- Editors' Choice
- $50
Intensely focused and pure, with powerful flavors of cassis and delicious streaks of green olive and chocolate. Oak adds cedar, vanilla and sweet tannins. Editors’ Choice. —S.H.
— S.H.
(2/1/2003)
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