1986 Dunn Howell Mountain Cabernet - 750ml

1986 Dunn Howell Mountain Cabernet - 750ml

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1986 Dunn Howell Mountain - 95 pts!
The wines are always impressive for their strength, massive body, and highly extracted blackcurrant fruit. Dunn, who believes in filtering but not fining, tends to use the former technique as a way of bringing a measure of refinement to the brute strength and power his wines possess. It is too early to say, but if there is any weakness to Dunn's Cabernets it would be the surprising lack of bottle bouquet. Dunn vehemently believes that filtration has nothing to do with this, and that it is only a matter of time before his Cabernets exhibit more aromatic evolution. 

Product Details

Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage 1986
Rating RP95/WS94
Bottle Size 750 ml
Bottle Quantity 1
Country USA
Region California
Location North Coast
Producer Dunn
Color Red
Wine Type Table

Winery Details

Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage 1986
Rating RP95/WS94
Bottle Size 750 ml
Bottle Quantity 1
Country USA
Region California
Location North Coast
Producer Dunn
Color Red
Wine Type Table

Robert Parker

Robert Parker RP95 - Two of the most impressive wines in these tastings both of Dunn's 1986s tasted like 3-4-year old Cabernets rather than 10-year old adolescents. The opaque purple-colored 1986 Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain offers awesome richness mindboggling intensity huge tannin a massive mouthfeel and a closed yet formidably long well-endowed finish. This wine could be put in a tasting of 1994 California Cabernets and not stand out as a 10-year old wine. Give it another 5-7 years of cellaring and drink it over the subsequent 25-30 years ... amazing! The tasting notes for this section are from two single blind tastings one conducted in May 1996 in California and the other in June 1996 in Baltimore. 

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