2000 Robert Mondavi Winery Fumé Blanc Reserve To-Kalon Vineyard - USA, California, Napa Valley (10/12/2024)
Last bottle from many, and a great way to go out! It's wonderful! Reminds me of the brilliant 99 I Block had last year...total tropical exotics, with the fruit candied and dried...pineapple, peach, papaya, mango...LOTS of dried mango...freshened up nicely with lemon and ginger tarts...LOVE the banana waxiness, coconut oil...salty crushed rock minerality and dry extract. Then there's the friggin exotics, which are to die for! Lemongrass, white flowers, buttered rum spice, white cedar incense, banana cream pie...it goes on and on! Really happy with this bottle...fresh as can be for 24yrs old...but of course now bitter sweet that it's my last one, and probably never see another. An indelible impression for sure! (96 points)
Bud! Like i said on Insta, congrats on going out with a bang! These are magical wines, especially with age on em. Just wish they were easier to source these days! Cheers brother!
We love the frosted bottles and repurpose them as short term olive oil carafes.
We’re down to two bottles of this lovely wine- singletons of the ‘98 and ‘99. One, I forget which of the two, is a good bit darker than the other, so I have low expectations of it, but the other looks age appropriate and so I have very high hopes.
