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The wines of Anakota stand alone as singular expressions of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from two distinct vineyard sites: Helena Montana and Helena Dakota. The vineyards highlight two distinct facets of our Knights Valley estate. Their boundaries are set not by a surveyor’s transit, but by the subtle variations of topography and geology. Both vineyards dart and weave their way around cold mountain streams, thick underbrush, groves of native trees and open fields. They follow the subtle contours of the earth climbing up the southwest-facing hillsides of our property.

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2013
4 In Stock
750ml
WA96
V91–94
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Tasting Notes

WA96
The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Helena Montana offers chocolate, sweet black cherries, a dense purple color, great intensity and purity – a real mountain style, but with surprisingly soft tannins. It is easily a 30-year wine. The good news is that there are 520 cases of this big, boisterous, yet voluptuously textured offering from Anakota.
V91–94
A huge, explosive wine, the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Helena Montana Vineyard hits the palate with a rush of pencil shavings, smoke, tobacco, incense, blackberry jam and tons of inky blue/purple fruit. This is a very typical 2013 Cabernet built on intense fruit, vibrant acidity and broad swaths of tannin. As such, readers should be prepared to give the 2013 at least a few years in the cellar once it is bottled and released. I imagine the 2013 will still be compelling at age 20, and likely beyond. Range: (91-94)

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