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| "From the outset, Randy Dunn’s flagship Cabernet has been one of Napa Valley’s slowest agers and most consistently outstanding wines."
Stephen Tanzer |
| | | “I've always liked the Dunn style - both the wine and the winemaker. The wines are loaded with very, very dark fruit backed by a gutsy mountain edge. And owner Randy Dunn has always been an outspoken and true-to-himself kind of person. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that his stepson Mike Dunn, 52, would follow that path with an equally straightforward approach to wine and life. Mike joined the winery in 1999, and he's taken on increasing responsibilities over the years. Today Randy decides when to pick; Mike handles the rest.
Dunn Vineyards had humble beginnings, when Randy left his winemaking job at Caymus down in the valley to head up to the backcountry of Angwin, atop Howell Mountain. In 1978, he bought a 14-acre property for $40,000 that included 4.5 acres of vines. From the get-go, Dunn's Howell Mountain Cabernet was distinctive, muscular in its profile and sometimes ornery. But it aged well. ‘Randy bucked the trend back then by picking riper up here than usual,’ says Mike …. The Dunns just bought an additional 7 acres of land, making their property a now-contiguous horseshoe shape, with 40 acres currently under vine. The Howell Mountain bottling is all estate fruit, while the Napa bottling is essentially a declassified Howell Mountain, containing some Howell Mountain fruit and occasionally some purchased fruit, for a wine meant to be a bit more approachable in its youth (the Napa bottling doesn't always contain purchased fruit either, such as in 2009, '10 and '11).
Mike has kept some things the same. After picking and crushing, the grapes are fermented in stainless steel tank, inoculated for malolactic and moved to barrel to complete that process. They are racked every six months over the course of their 32-month élevage, with the lots kept separate until they're blended just a few months before bottling.”
James Molesworth, Wine Spectator |
| | "These Cabernets are for the patient, but make no mistake about it: in top vintages, the Howell Mountain is one of the great wines - not just of California, but of the world."
Antonio Galloni, Vinous |
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| | ‣ "The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain is outrageously beautiful. A wine of extraordinary purity, the 2019 dazzles right out of the gate. The tannins are nearly silky for a young Howell Mountain Cabernet. Red/purplish fruit, lavender, spice, rose petal and pomegranate all build in this sumptuous, explosive Cabernet Sauvignon. The 2019 is one of the most elegant Cabernets I have tasted here, and that is saying something What a wine."
98 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com |
| | | | ‣ "Swaths of tannin wrap around a core of dark fruit, gravel, spice, dried flowers, lavender and charred earth are pushed forward, with firm, chocolatey tannins that wrap it all together."
93+ Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com |
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