How you evaluate this will depend on what you most want in Port

This also would benefit from the development of more depth

There is better size and weight as well as more minerality on the powerful larger-scaled flavors that conclude in compact

This was a notoriously warm vintage that saw sugar and phenolic ripeness shoot up very quickly at the end of the growing season

Montelena, The Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon other_regions_italy How you evaluate this willCurrently being offered to mailing list members as part of a three vintage pack (2008, 2013, 2018 for $700), the 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate is a killer wine that should continue to drink well for another 15 years or so. It offers up evolved notes of cigar box but remains fresh, with intense redcurrant and cassis still in evidence on the nose. Medium to full bodied, it's silky, aristocratic in bearing and long on the finish.