2013 Anakota Cabernet Sauvignon Helena Dakota Vineyard
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Anakota's 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Helena Dakota is plush, round and sensual, with plenty of mocha, chocolate, blackberry and crème de cassis. This clay-rich terroir produces rich, sumptuous wines that emphasize depth and mid-palate intensity. Because of that, this is a fairly approachable 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon although it will also develop nicely with time in bottle. Smoke, game, licorice, plum and earthy notes wrap around the dense finish.
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The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Helena Dakota (445 cases) is absolutely magnificent. Opaque black/purple in color, it comes across like a Château Montrose from a great vintage – a very earthy St.-Estèphe-inspired wine with the essence of loamy soil and crushed rocks interwoven with blackberry and cassis fruit. Some oak makes an appearance, but it is pushed to the background by the extravagance and enormous body and extract of this wine of phenomenal intensity. This is a classic Pierre Seillan style of wine meant for 25-40 years of cellaring.
The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Helena Dakota Vineyard is much more savory and mineral-driven than the 2012, with a greater sense of Knights Valley character. Inky blue and black fruits, graphite, smoke, lavender and cloves are all very much alive in the glass. Underlying beams of acidity and salinity give the wine its pulsating energy and tension. This is a terrific showing from Anakota and Pierre Seillan.