Howell Mountain Archives

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Color is a deep ruby, bordering on red-black. The nose is rich with blackberry, black currant, and cigar box. Black currant and blackberry lead on the palate, with floral undertones and structured tannins. Tobacco appears on the mid-palate. Fruit takes the lead in this restrained, refined wine. Drink with rack Read More

What We’re Drinking – Howell Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon

David Honig

Wine Reviews

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This is a young wine, a very young wine. It is not a pop-and-pour, and won't be for a decade or more. It took a full 24 hours with an open bottle before it started to unwind. Once it did, though, the patience was well-rewarded. The powerful nose is redolent Read More

Judgment of Napa: Five Cabernets

Simon J Woolf

Features Wine Spotlight

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A Brit writing on Napa Cabernets, for an American wine magazine – isn't that a bit bloody minded? A tad “coals to Newcastle”, if you will? Stay with me, it might get interesting. California's Napa Valley has nothing left to prove – the 1976 and 2006 Judgments of Paris are Read More

Behind the Wines of the Year: An Interview with Cornerstone Cellars’ Craig Camp

David Honig

Features Wine Reviews

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At the third annual Palate Press Grand Tasting, last November, several reader-voted Palate Press Wines of the Week were included in a blind-tasting Palate Press Wine of the Year competition. The scoring was done by a group of wine professionals, and the winner was the 2007 Cornerstone Cellars Howell Mountain Read More

2008 Cade Cabernet Sauvignon

David Honig

Wine Reviews

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Great Napa vineyards? Check! Low yield? Check! Dry hot summer and fall? Check! Nearly two years in 80% new French oak? Check! More than 90 points in the big magazines? Check! Okay everybody, it's Cult Wine Time! Let's sell this stuff for $175 a bottle! That was a great plan in 2008, when the Read More

Palate Press Wine of the Week: 2007 Cornerstone Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon

Palate Press

Features Wine Reviews

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Improving with every sip, gaining structure and depth with every extra minute of air, this is a beautiful baby that will, with time, mature into a gorgeous adult. Dark fruit (blackcurrant and mulberry) has a background of tobacco leaf and-read more- Read More

2007 Cornerstone Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon

David Honig

Wine Reviews

1 min read

Improving with every sip, gaining structure and depth with every extra minute of air, this is a beautiful baby that will, with time, mature into a gorgeous adult. Dark fruit (blackcurrant and mulberry) has a background of tobacco leaf and-read more- Read More

Wine for Haiti Lot 61 – 1986 Dunn Vineyard Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon SOLD

Palate Press

Features

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Jonathan Swinchatt made an incredibly generous contribution from his cellar, a 1986 Dunn Vineyard Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon. There are not a lot of these twenty-four year old wines are around, a few (a very few) are available on line-read more- Read More

What We’re Drinking – Notre Vin Cabernet Sauvignon

What We’re Drinking – Howell Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon

Judgment of Napa: Five Cabernets

Behind the Wines of the Year: An Interview with Cornerstone Cellars’ Craig Camp

2008 Cade Cabernet Sauvignon

Palate Press Wine of the Week: 2007 Cornerstone Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon

2007 Cornerstone Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon

Wine for Haiti Lot 61 – 1986 Dunn Vineyard Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon SOLD

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