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Mountain View 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon (Central Coast)

Cabernet Sauvignon · Mountain View

Central Coast

Quality

A 0–100 expert rating: 80–84 good, 85–89 very good, 90–94 excellent, 95–100 classic. Higher means a more highly regarded wine.

80/100Good

Difficult to find much to like here. Smells baked and Porty, and tastes overtly sweet in residual sugar, like cherry and raspberry jam.

Flavor profile

An estimate of the wine's structure: body (how full it feels), acidity (tartness), sweetness, and tannin (the drying grip in reds).

Body90%

Acidity50%

Sweetness30%

Tannin90%

cherryraspberry

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