Harmonious, dependable, value.
While the Mondavi wines are hugely dependable across the board, it's how your value wines show, that truly show your commitment to quality.
The aromas here are a potpourri of cedar chips and dried flowers, smoked spices and black cherries with plush chocolate. Harmonious and generous in the mouth, with a slick texture an oodles of mocha, vanilla and berry fruit in the mouth.

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Wine Scores Reviewed - November 28th, 2016

Seductive, generous fleshy.
An opulent wine with seductive blueberry, cherry, licorice, vanilla and baking spices layered with violets and mocha. The palate is chocolaty, generous and supple. A luscious and fleshy wine.

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Wine Scores Reviewed - March 26th, 2019

Complete, succulent, woven.
Harvested from the preeminent To Kalon Vineyard, which rests behind the Mondavi winery in Oakville, this superb red saw extended maceration and was moved into all new French oak barriques for a secondary fermentation, then aged 20 months before blending into the final wine. It was bottled in August of 2017 and aged again in bottle.
It has a rich, complex and serious nose: black currents and blueberries, brown spices, dried herbs and salted, smoked meat aromas are defined. It's a complete wine, fresh and balanced, succulent and deftly woven. Generous bordering on opulent with a long, chocolaty finish.
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Wine Scores Reviewed - May 27th, 2019

Substantial, textural, developed.
This is a substantial Cab with aromas of purple berries and cassis, vanilla, sunbaked earth, peppery spices, green bell peppers and molasses. Textural yet ripe tannins roll across the palate, it shows good acid but also significant development, suggested by the toffee, balsamic and dried fruit on the palate. A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc.
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Wine Scores Reviewed - February 4th, 2019

Second review: Nov. 2016
A brilliant Cabernet with spot-on notes of cassis, red cherries, mocha, tobacco, pencil shavings, toasted spices and a savoury herbal core. Supple and intense with great structure and balance.
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Wine Scores Reviewed - December 8th, 2016

Substantial, textural, persistent.
Expect a substantial Cab with aromas of purple berries and black currants, vanilla, sunbaked earth, peppery spices, rich chocolate, licorice and saddle leather. Textural yet ripe tannins roll across the palate - it offers flavours of mocha, black briary berries, toasted brown spice and cocoa lingering on the finish. Structured and full-bodied with superb persistence.
87% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc.
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Wine Scores Reviewed - March 18th, 2016