1990 Robert Mondavi Pinot Noir Reserve

The great breakthrough at Mondavi over recent years has been the Reserve Pinot Noir. After going high-tech in the mid-1970 and 1980s, Mondavi has become a leader in the movement toward an unmanipulated, natural style of winemaking that stresses the importance of the vineyard, the varietal, and the vintage. The fact that there is little manipulation or intervention in the winemaking has done wonders for their Pinot Noir program. For drinking in their first 4-6 years of life, Mondavi's Reserve Pinot Noirs are among the finest made in the New World. Both the 1990 and 1991 Pinot Noir Reserves are unfined and unfiltered. They offer superb bouquets of spicy oak, herbs, rich red and black fruits, and flowers. Lush, expansive, and generously endowed, these seductive Pinot Noirs offer immense pleasure.