2001 Anakota Cabernet Sauvignon Helena Montana Vineyard
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Good medium-deep red. A bit wilder and more leathery on the nose than the Helena Dakota, with spice cake, mocha and meaty nuances dominating raspberry fruit. Larger-scaled, denser and plusher on the palate, showing more sweetness but also a slight barnyard impingement to its raspberry, milk chocolate and mocha flavors. Finishes with dusty, broad tannins that dry the tongue and palate. I wanted a bit more freshness and energy. Drink up.
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Robert Parker
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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The 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon Helena Montana has become more civilized with bottle aging. It exhibits sweet, dusty, loamy soil notes intermixed with black raspberry, black currant and floral aromas, an intriguing minerality, abundant but sweet tannin and a youthful, full-bodied mouthfeel. It needs another 5-6 years of cellaring and should keep for an additional 25-30 years ... it’s that powerful, dense and impressive. Verite’s French winemaker, Pierre Seillan, makes these wines. When I tasted these cuvees right after bottling, they were so massive and enormous, it was hard to discern their full personalities, so it was a pleasure to taste them at age ten, even though they are still infants in terms of development, and reveal only a small fraction of their ultimate potential. Both are 100% Cabernet Sauvignons aged 14 months in 100% new French oak prior to bottling. Tel. (707) 431-3921
Full ruby-red. Aromas of blackberry syrup, chocolate and game. Rich, sweet and fat, with briary black fruits complicated by mocha, leather and minerals. Denser and sweeter in the middle palate than the Jackson Park merlot but quite tannic on the lingering finish, with notes of briary berries, leather and game.
Good medium ruby. Cleaner aromas of black cherry, licorice and menthol. Dense, lush and sweet; a distinct step up in intensity from the 2000 release. Finishes with big but ripe tannins and lingering fruit. This is 100% cabernet sauvignon from a single vineyard.