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The September 2021 Auction: Part 4

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Auction Ends: 9/23/2021 6:00:00 PM PDT

Lot #460. Heitz Cellar Cabernet Sauvignon Martha's Vineyard 2009

Description: Consists of 1 Bottle, 0.75L
Score: 95 JG.
"The 2009 Martha’s Vineyard from the Heitz family is one of the finest young vintages of this wine in recent times. Cathleen Heitz and her brother (and the estate’s winemaker since 1974) David Heitz rank this vintage right up there with the legendary Martha’s Vineyards, and it is easy to see why, as this is a wine of bottomless depth, great purity and focus and magical nascent complexity, all tied to the signature Martha’s personality that has made this such an iconic wine in Napa Valley for more than forty vintages. The bouquet is deep, pure and beautifully focused, as it wafts from the glass in a mix of red cherries, red plums, eucalyptus, woodsmoke, beautiful soil tones, a touch of allspice and a suave base of cedary wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and beautifully focused, with a rock solid core of fruit, ripe, perfectly integrated tannins and stunning length and grip on the ripe, but balanced finish. As has been the case for a couple of decades, the 2009 Martha’s Vineyard tips the scales at 14.5 percent alcohol, and the wine is certainly ripe, but it shows no signs out of the blocks of heat on the backend and I have little doubt that this wine will age beautifully. That said, I would still give my left arm to see this wine hover below fourteen percent alcohol, as this would only increase the signature complexity and purity that has defined Martha’s Vineyard since its inaugural vintage of 1966. However, it may well turn out that twenty years from now, the 2009 will be the second coming of the 1970 or 1978 Martha’s (both ripe vintages), as this does have great constituent components." John Gilman, View From the Cellar #52, Aug 2014
Provenance: The Progrès Cellar
Lot Location: Orange County
Estimate: $120

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