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96 Points - Wine Spectator Magazine:
"Pure, rich and concentrated, this bold, graceful wine offers a deep core of earthy currant, blackberry and plum, with hints of herb, mocha and black licorice, giving it uncommon complexity and depth. Ends with firm tannins and a long, persistent finish. Best from 2010 through 2017."

94 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
"The 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve offers a beautiful perfume of violets, black currants, and subtle oak, lead pencil shavings, and spice characteristics. This full-bodied, creamy textured Cabernet possesses superb concentration, lovely purity, and a multilayered mouthfeel. It should drink well for two decades or more."

94 Points - International Wine Review:
"[$135 list] The 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve combines a powerful fragrance with intensity of flavor. It offers rich black currant fruit with notes of lavender, cassis and cedar. It reveals a creamy mouth feel with concentrated lingering black fruit flavors, spice notes and coconut. It also shows polished tannins and outstanding richness and balance right through to the finish. This is a wine to cellar for the decades. (Mar 2010)"

93 Points - Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar:
"Good deep ruby-red. Currant, chocolate and tobacco on the nose. Silky, layered and lush, with a seamless texture to the full-bodied flavors of plum, currant and lead-pencil minerality. Has plenty of plump mid-palate fruit to support the big but thoroughly ripe tannins, which reach the front teeth. Mostly from To-Kalon fruit, the rest from nearby vines also in Oakville. Winemaker Janssens compared this wine to the 1995. This is sweet and approachable, whereas the 2005 version was young and aggressive at the same stage."

92 Points - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine:
"In this tricky vintage, the Mondavi winery has been able to move beyond the potential angularity that pops up so often and instead has delivered a polished, focused wine that shows far more fruit and far better balance than its stated alcohol of 15.5% would seem to suggest. Ripe and mouthfilling but also amazingly silky in texture and deep in curranty fruit, this one has plenty of depth upon which to grow while its evident tannins age out over the next half decade and more. (Dec 2009)"

92 Points & 125 Top Picks of 2009 - Wine News:
"[$135 list] Inky, blackish hue. Menthol-laden bouquet with notes of leather and new oak. Soft plum, blackberry and red licorice flavors laced with fine-grain tannins. Vibrant mintiness, black cherry fruit and new oak prevail in the lengthy finish. (Sep/Oct/Nov 2009)"

90 Points - Wine Enthusiast Magazine:
"A beautiful Cabernet, rich and soft and profoundly structured, showing near-perfect tannins. They melt in your mouth, yet retain firmness, and carry flavors of blackberries, black currants and cedar. Lacks the concentration of previous vintages, but is a lovely wine for now and over the next six years."  — S.H.  (12/15/2009)