Chateau Montelena - The Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 (750ml) 5000ml

Chateau Montelena - The Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 (750ml) 5000mlNotes from Current Winemaker, Matt Crafton, April 2024: Nose This is a beautiful, cool vintage Cabernet. Ten years removed from release, this wine is still incredibly lively, brimming with fresh raspberry and blackberry. In contrast to the fruit is a latent earthiness that is brambly and woodsy, but laser focused in intensity. While theres a modicum of barrel influence, the soft notes of smoke and tar shift throughout the background, lending stature

sage and sweet bay hints flicker seductively amid the fruit on the lengthy finish

livelyGoes well with oysters

Aroma: Complex

In Rivas de Tereso (650m altitude) I have the vineyards of Sierra de Toloño (Red and White) and two more serious wines made with Tempranillo and Garnacha

Blend: 70% Corvina and Corvinone

Notes of rose and pomegranate complete this elegant and intense aromatic profile

while barrel fermentation in mostly older French oak barrels leads to a wine of perfect structure and creamy-crispy balance

BOUQUET: Intense aromas of red fruit with evidence of plum and black cherry

strongly appreciated by the millenials

citrus peel and notes of roses and orange blossom

Despite being produced in a warm year

175 acres) total and spreads over 14 communes: Bannay