There are 1,000 cases of the 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon To-Kalon Reserve. Fashioned from 31-year old vines, it is a powerful, firmly structured offering revealing notes of charcoal, creamy black currants, loamy soil, and tobacco leaf. Although its pH of 3.78 is relatively high, seemingly suggesting a more forward style, it is broodingly backward and less accessible than the Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. It’s a classic Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon that may not be quite as generous or complex as the Reserve or perhaps the M-Bar, but it is almost too backward to fully evaluate at present. Give it 5-6 years of cellaring, and drink it over the following 20-25 years. (Not yet released) Tel. (707) 226-1395 and (800) MONDAVI; fax (707) 251-4386

Young and closed, with mint and oak accenting black cherry fruit. Powerful, elegant, smooth. Polished with big time tannins that are sweet and refined. Tremendous fruit. Should have a long, long life. Drink now–2020.——S.H.(6/1/2005)—— 95