2014 Pride Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon Napa/Sonoma Reserve
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The highlight in this range, the 2014 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is rich, powerful and explosive, with fabulous energy to back up its huge fruit. This is another wine that needs time to fully come together, but it is true of all the top Pride wines. I wouldn't think of opening a bottle anytime soon. A rush of black cherry, plum and mocha adds a closing flourish of intensity in this superb Cabernet Sauvignon from Pride.
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Coming both from Sonoma County and Napa Valley, the 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve offers a deep, concentrated, dense style as well as loads of chocolaty dark fruits, black cherry, graphite, scorched earth, tobacco and background oak. It's a rich, full-bodied beauty that shows the more plush side of the vintage in its fruit and texture, yet offers an incredible core of fruit and mid-palate density that's going to allow it to age beautifully. I'd hide bottles for 4-5 years and enjoy over the following 2-3 decades.
Composed of 97% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3% Petit Verdot, with 66% coming from Sonoma and 34% from Napa, the 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve displays a very deep purple-black color and nose of crushed red and black currants, black cherries and pencil shavings with touches of cloves, bay leaves, damp earth and truffles. Medium to full-bodied, it fills the mouth with juicy red and black fruits, supported by silky, silt-like tannins and wonderful freshness, finishing long with an herbal lift. 1,546 cases were made.
The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is in fine shape today. It retains terrific energy and verve but in the more compact style of the year. Gravel, incense, tobacco, dried herbs, iron and wildflowers build. The 2014 has aged well, but it is a bit severe in its contours; I would give it a healthy decant. All this is missing today is a bit of mid-palate density.