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2016 Mount Eden "Estate" Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon (Winery Direct Library Release)

2016 Mount Eden "Estate" Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon (Winery Direct Library Release)

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Vinous

Reviewed September 2020
Mount Eden’s 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon represents the essence of what Cabernet Sauvignon is all about in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Deep, powerful and explosive, the 2016 simply has it all. A wine of tremendous depth and intensity. Readers, take note. This is world class Cabernet Sauvignon that in any other region would cost 2-3 times as much. Savory and expansive, with tons of mountain character and remarkable richness from low yields in 2016, the Cabernet Sauvignon is simply off the charts. It’s another utterly breathtaking wine from Mount Eden. This collection of new releases from Mount Eden and sister label Domaine Eden is full of highlights, including several epic wines that could very well become benchmarks for future generations. Two thousand sixteen looks like an absolutely magical vintage. The Mount Eden Chardonnay Reserve and Cabernet Sauvignon are truly magnificent and easily among the very finest wines I have ever tasted from Jeffrey and Ellie Patterson. (AG)
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Professional Reviews

97

Wine Advocate

Review Date: 02/2021
The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate is blended with 12% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. The nose offers pure cassis finely layered with Chinese five spice, dried rose petals, graphite and pipe tobacco with a wild, game-like undercurrent. The palate is seamless, opening to an array of detailed fruits and spices, with a silt-like structure and expansive juicy uplift. It's a wonderfully balanced Cabernet that offers immediate appeal plus everything it needs for a long life in the cellar. (EB) 97+

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Decanter

Review Date: 05/2021
The combination of high-elevation vineyards, oceanic influence and surrounding coniferous forest give Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet a singular profile, and few show it off as well as Mount Eden. Aged 22 months in 50% new oak, a mixture of French and American. Contains 12% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Petit Verdot. American wood instils notes of candied orange rind and coconut flakes into an otherwise gravel-driven nose. The palate has a graceful, buoyant quality that gently floats across the palate. The finish is very dry and wound up like a spring, which will continue to be the case for the next several years. This is a wine to slowly let unfurl, both when ageing and consuming; open several hours in advance. (ML)

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Wine & Spirits

Review Date: 12/2020
t’s rare to find joyous Cabernet: This is a wine with bounce to its black raspberry and red currant fruit, as if that succulent fruit were rising directly out of the warm, earthy tannins. Jeffrey Patterson grew this at his historic vineyard, where Cabernet Sauvignon (75%), Merlot (22%) and Franc are rooted in shale soils 15 miles from the Pacific and 2,000 feet above it, the vine selections tracing their lineage directly back to 19th-century Bordeaux. The 2016 is compressed as a young wine, needing four days after the bottle is first opened to fully show itself, when it will turn your head with its lovely weight of sumptuous fruit. (JG)

Notes

95+ Matthew Luczy for Wine Advocate: "The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate is a definitive example of a Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet blend. The nose unabashedly shows off honest, herbal, Cabernet-correct aromas of green pepper and oregano, surrounded by blackcurrant, pipe tobacco, underbrush and graphite notes. The palate is velvety, enveloping and concentrated but retains energy and agility, with a long, firm core of tannic grip on the finish. While it is drinking beautifully today and just beginning to reveal its layers, this should turn into a modern classic with another decade in the cellar." (4/2024)

Details

TypeRed Wine
VarietalCabernet Sauvignon and Blends
OriginSanta Cruz Mountains, California, United States
Bottle Size750 mL
SKU1506436