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1997 Philip Togni Cabernet - 750ml
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1997 Philip Togni Cabernet - 750ml

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1997 Philip Togni Cabernet - 98 Pts!
This small 10-acre estate situated high on Spring Mountain produces some of the most distinctive Napa Valley wines. Togni has been a long-time believer in not acidifying and his wines are never filtered at bottling. Togni's ability to harvest ripe, sweet fruit is evident in the 1990 Cabernet Sauvignon, a wine with awesome intensity. It may be the most opulent of the four vintages (1990 - 1993).
According to Togni, 1990 produced his smallest crop, which may account for the wine's extraordinary concentration and intensity. It exhibits ripe fruit buttressed by sweet toasty oak, and jammy black-cherry and blackcurrant flavors. The wine is just beginning to open up and strut its stuff. Togni's Cabernet Sauvignon, generally made from a Bordeaux-like blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot and 3% Cabernet Franc, and aged 22 months in small French oak casks of which 25-40% are new, is one of the richest, most complex Cabernets made in California. 
 
The first Philip Togni Cabernet Sauvignon vintage was 1983, a wine that remains not only young, but one of the top wines from this unimpressive vintage for most other Napa wineries. 
Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage
Rating 98 RP
Bottle Size 750 ml
Bottle Quantity 1
Country USA
Region California
Location North Coast
Producer Philip Togni
Color Red
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Rating 98 RP - 1997 Philip Togni Cabernet - 98 Pts! The 1997 Cabernet Sauvignon has to be one of the great buys left for profound Napa Cabernet. He's done the aging for you and of course the wine is still an adolescent in terms of aging potential. Brilliant notes of cedar spice box cassis smoke and licorice soar from the glass as if this wine were pretending to be a first-growth Pauillac. Full-bodied powerful still with a boatload of tannin to resolve and just a faint lightening of the dense purple color at the rim this is a brilliant wine from a vintage that produced relatively quick-evolving wines but no such thing is tolerated at Philip Togni. This is a great Cabernet Sauvignon with the exuberance purity and richness of fruit that Napa provides but with a Bordeaux structure that Togni with his Bordeaux upbringing somehow builds into the wine. This wine will continue to drink well for at least another 30+ years. RP
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Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
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Rating 98 RP
Bottle Size 750 ml
Bottle Quantity 1
Country USA
Region California
Location North Coast
Producer Philip Togni
Color Red
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