Anakota • Helena Montana Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Über das Weingut Anakota:

Der legendäre Jess Jackson gründete Mitte der 90er Jahre das Weingut zusammen mit Barbara Banke. Als Wine Maker engagierten sie niemand geringeren als Pierre Seillan, der während seiner rumreichen Karriere in Bordeaux sieben verschiedene Chateaux verantwortlich geführt hat und nun die mystischen Weine von Verité und die Weine Anakota produziert. Anakota liegt im Herzen des Knight Valley in Sonoma, am Fuße des berühmten Mount Howell und produziert ausschließlich reinsortige Cabernet Sauvignon von Weltruf.

Über den Wein Helena Montana 2018

Lassen wir den Winemaker Pierre Seillan selbst seinen bis dato größten Wein beschreiben:

Running northeast to southwest at an elevation of 950 feet above sea level, the 60-acre Helena Montana vineyard is marked by rolling hills and steep benches that tilt up to 30 degrees. It features firm, dense, white/yellow gravelly loam soils that drain extremely well. The combination of hills, knolls and trees helps route cool, westerly winds away from the vines. Helena Montana Cabernets are concentrated and powerful with black fruit flavors, spice, minerals and muscular tannins.

Replenishing winter rains ushered an exceptional start to the 2018 growing season, leading to a lengthy budbreak and flowering, with nearly perfect fruit-set throughout a cool spring. Warm weather and bright sunshine settled in by June, but the nights remained very cool, and the season progressed without any major heat spikes. These ideal conditions continued well into the fall, leading to even ripening of tannins, sugar levels, and acidity. The 2018 Helena Montana is focused and powerful on the nose, showing ripe red and black currant, along with dried bouquet garni, and a subtle frame of sweet baking spices. The palate is a tour de force of varied fruit and non-fruit flavors, wrapped around a powerful core, teeming with firm tannin and juicy acidity.

Wenn Sie mehr über die faszinierenden Weine und die beeindruckende Geschichte des Weinguts wissen möchten, besuchen Sie doch einfach den Online-Auftritt von Anakota.

Im Wine Advocate Januar 2021 vergab Parker's Verkoster für kalifornischen Wein Lisa Perrotti-Brown die grandiose Bewertung von 99 Punkten für diesen einmaligen Wein:

97+/100 Punkte

Der Wortlaut der Lobeshymne lautet:

Made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Helena Montana Vineyard spent 12 months in 100% new French oak. Deep garnet-purple in color, it bursts from the glass with bold scents of fresh blackberries, black currants and mulberries plus suggestions of cedar chest, pencil lead, iron ore and truffles, with emerging wafts of crushed rocks and charcoal. Medium to full-bodied, the palate delivers firm, grainy, exquisitely ripe tannins and seamless freshness supporting layer upon layer of black fruits, finishing on a long-lingering fragrant earth note. 800 cases were made.

The two Anakota vineyards sit at the base of Mount St. Helena in Knights Valley, in the northeast of Sonoma, just north of Napa Valley's Calistoga. While very close to one another, the two sites have different aspects, altitudes and soil profiles, producing markedly different wines. Generally speaking, Helena Dakota is composed of a red-loam soil, allowing for deeper roots and more vine vigor. Helena Montana is perched at a higher altitude with sandy/gravelly loam soils that force the vines to struggle. The Helena Montana and Helena Dakota vineyards are truly coming into their own now at 20 years old. The winemaker here is Pierre Seillan from Verité, applying the same sensitivity to understanding the land and expressing the individual terroirs.

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