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2008 Pride Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Napa County/Sonoma County
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About Pride Mountain Vineyards

Nestled above the Spring Mountain fog, on the Napa-Sonoma county line, Pride Mountain Vineyard sits on a former 340-acre agricultural Summit Ranch. In 1989, when Jim and Carolyn Pride purchased the spread they planned on growing grapes to sell, but soon caught the bug and built a winery.

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2008 Pride Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Napa County/Sonoma County

Producer: Pride Mountain Vineyards
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Cabernet Sauvignon
Origin: California
Region: Napa

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91 Points | International Wine Cellar , May/June 2011

(with 11% merlot and 6% petit verdot):  Good full, bright ruby.  Precise aromas of blackberry, minerals, menthol, cedar and slate.  Supple and suave, with a slightly high-toned quality to the dark berry and bitter chocolate flavors.  A real crushed-berry bomb, with good acid cut and supple broad tannins.  Steve Pride noted that this wine was more aggressive in the mid-'90s; the winery introduced a gentler destemmer with vintage 2008 and is now pressing the fruit more gently.  There's now less in the way of oak tannins in the finished wines, he added.

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