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The July 2019 Auction: Part 4
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Lot 315
Estimate: $1,100
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98+RP
"The 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Trailer Vineyard, from the Howell Mountain vines planted in 1972 in the red Aiken soils, spent 30 months in barrel. It’s a phenomenal wine with just about everything I’ve found in the finest Howell Mountain examples, with even more concentration and great aromatics. It offers sweet crème de cassis and blackberry fruit intermixed with acacia flowers, licorice and graphite. Some earthiness is present, but the wine is magnificently built, structured and capable of lasting 40-50 years, which is not overstating it, given the fact that the first vintages of Randy Dunn, such as 1979, 1981 and 1982, are still going strong at close to 40 years of age."
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"The 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Trailer Vineyard, from the Howell Mountain vines planted in 1972 in the red Aiken soils, spent 30 months in barrel. It’s a phenomenal wine with just about everything I’ve found in the finest Howell Mountain examples, with even more concentration and great aromatics. It offers sweet crème de cassis and blackberry fruit intermixed with acacia flowers, licorice and graphite. Some earthiness is present, but the wine is magnificently built, structured and capable of lasting 40-50 years, which is not overstating it, given the fact that the first vintages of Randy Dunn, such as 1979, 1981 and 1982, are still going strong at close to 40 years of age."
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The fourth-largest wine producer in the world, led by California. American fine wine is defined by ripe, expressive fruit and a spirit of innovation, with Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon among the most sought-after wines globally.
California's most prestigious wine region, celebrated worldwide for opulent, structured Cabernet Sauvignon. Diverse soils and mountain-to-valley-floor sites yield wines of remarkable ripeness, power and longevity.
A high-elevation Napa AVA above the fog line, producing intensely concentrated, firmly structured mountain Cabernet built for long aging.
