Mount Veeder, Napa Valley, Cabernet Sauvignon 1991 Pinot Noir Chewy and muscular

Chewy and muscular

13% Mourvèdre

The palate is full bodied with nice structure but so much fruit overlaying everything that it's easy to miss

With striking intensity

after the road high on the mountain that seems to be the Fifth Avenue of Howell Mountain vineyard sites

Mount Veeder, Napa Valley, Cabernet Sauvignon 1991 Pinot Noir Chewy and muscularBase of neck or better; In Original Carton 92 points CellarTracker Member Double blind. Dark core with a touch of bricking at the meniscus. Lovely bouquet of tobacco, black currants and violets. Flavors of currants, plum, cherry and green tobacco. I am struggling to determine if this is from Bordeaux or California. Forest floor notes emerge with air. Just a touch lean perhaps, and the acidity is there, so the while the fruit says CA, the structure