Dunn Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- United States
- Howell Mountain
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Tracked vintages
- 17
- Community notes
- 235
- Merchant offers
- 115
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 98/ 1002019 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 92/ 100235 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £81per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023
- Drinking window
- 2027–2044hold2019 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 636 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Body4.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.4 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.6 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.6 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · blackberry, dark fruit, plum, black fruit, cassis
- Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, cedar, chocolate
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, graphite, cocoa
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry
- Spice · pepper, licorice, eucalyptus, mint, menthol
- Vegetal · green bell pepper, bell pepper, hay, tomato, grass
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
1997One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2018
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2021unit not stated
- 201998criticunit not stated
- 201897critic£81 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023
- 201797criticunit not stated
- 201697critic£88 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2024
- 201387drinkersunit not stated
- 201291drinkers
- 201098critic
- 200895critic
- 200195critic£105 / 75cl1500 ml in-bond trade, March 2016
- 199988drinkersunit not stated
- 1998unit not stated
- 199791critic£143 / 75cl1500 ml shop ask, September 2026
- 199497critic
- 199296critic
- 199093critic
- 198692drinkersunit not stated
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Holdits window has not opened
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2019
- 98 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2016
- drinking, window 2024–2046
- Lowest price
- 2018
- £81 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | £81 | 97 | No | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023 |
| 2016 | £88 | 97 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2024 |
| 2001 | £105 | 94.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, March 2016 |
| 1997 | £143 | 91 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 1500 ml shop ask, September 2026 |
Where to go next
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