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94 JG. "The 1985 Napa cabernet from Randy Dunn is still a fairly young wine, but it is starting to stir on both the nose and palate and is probably only about five years away from really beginning to drink well. The deep and impressively complex bouquet offers up scents of black cherries, a touch of red currant, cigar smoke, a bit of dried eucalyptus, orange peel, a superb, complex base of soil tones, gentle spice nuances and cedary wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and quite pure on the attack, with a lovely signature of soil, a firm and still fairly youthful structure, a rock solid core, bright acids and a fair bit of tannin still to resolve on the long and nicely tangy finish. This was hermetically sealed for the first decade and a half of its life, but it is starting to turn the corner and there is going to be some superb long-term drinking in this wine’s not too distant future!" View From the Cellar, May/Jun 2013, Issue #45 |