Pride Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon (375ML half-bottle) 2018
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Blend: 70% Napa, 30% Sonoma
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Pride Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon offers excellent power and length on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine shines with bold black fruit and oak in its aromas and flavors. Pair it with grilled beef and a side plate of Roquefort cheese. (Tasted: June 22, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
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Connoisseurs' Guide
6% Petit Verdot; 5% Merlot. Ripe and somewhat flashy at first glance, this wine starts off as the drink-me-now sibling among the Pride offerings, but its palatal tannins tell a different story. It is full-bodied and invitingly rich on the palate with the expected notes of currant and toasty oak in good form. And there will be those who will find it a good mate to rich beef roasts even now. For our part, we would prefer it in a more polished state and are content to let it age in the cellar for three to six years at a minimum. And, frankly, it could well gain in smoothness for a good many years after that.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Looking at the base Cabernet, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon comes 70% from Napa and 30% from Sonoma. A wonderful nose of blackcurrants, black cherries, bouquet garni, baking spices, and dried tobacco gives way to a medium-bodied, elegant, beautifully balanced Cabernet that's very much in the balanced, fresh, classical style of the vintage. It's ideal for drinking over the coming 10-12 years, and it will probably last even longer.
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