Keenan Merlot "Mailbox" Spring Mountain Napa Valley 2005 92 Pts Wa

Purchase Keenan Merlot "Mailbox" Spring Mountain Napa Valley 2005 92 Pts Wa

WINE ADVOCATE REVIEW: 92 POINTS An outstanding effort, the 2005 Merlot Reserve Mailbox Vineyard retains the elegant style, but ratchets up the level of concentration and complexity. A fragrant, red currant, sweet cherry, roasted herb, and mocha-infused nose is followed by a full-bodied wine with lovely elegance, finesse, sweet tannins, and long, layered fruit flavors that cascade over the palate with no hard edges. It should drink well for 10-12 years. WA # , #174 (Dec 2007) Drink 2007 - 2019 Robert Parker WINE ENTHUSIAST REVIEW: 93 POINTS Keenan 2005 Reserve Mailbox Vineyard Merlot (Spring Mountain) This bottling has turned out to be one of California’s more important Merlot releases. The ’05, like its immediate predecessors, is a dry, richly tannic wine of great elegance and structural complexity. It pleases now for the wealth of black currants, anise, herbs, spices and smoky oak, and should develop bottle nuances through 2011.  - S.H.  (5/1/2009) NVWE NOTES: This is, by any standard, a wonderful Merlot. It would be a treasure in anyone’s cellar and, after a bit of decanting, proves already to be a supple and luxuriously flavorful dinner wine. The aromas are a deeply layered mix of sweet red cherry, red plum, dried orange, mocha, sweet vanilla, rose and violet. It is every bit as deep and fruity on the palate, where cherry, plum, violet and some red rose hints rise above similarly opulent savory notes of mocha, vanilla and toffee. The finish is lingering, packed with plush fruit, and supple; yet reveals fine tannic grip, lots of mountain forest-spice and some dark mineral undertones. This grand effort will easily improve for another five years. 350 cases produced.

Purchase Keenan Merlot "Mailbox" Spring Mountain Napa Valley 2005 92 Pts Wa

• SKU: KEENMER05M
• Varietal: 2005
• Vintage: NAPA VLY
• Bottle Size: T

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