2005 Continuum Proprietary Red

Community Tasting Notes (75) Avg Score: 94.0 points

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  12/16/2022 - The Grape Escape Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Had a magnum of this beautiful wine sleeping in my cellar since it’s release. This year’s holiday party seamed like the perfect time to share it with some friends. What a wonderful experience. Like a great athlete that wins their final contest before retirement, this wine performed exceptionally well. Although I think it will still hold strong for a few more years, now was the time to let it shine. After about 30-40 minutes of air, it became clear that Tim Mondavi’s Continuum debut was well played. Smooth, chocolate covered red fruits that still had enough tannic backbone to stand tall. I agree that recent vintages have more to offer but tonight, this wine showed very well.

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  2/25/2022 - MC2 Wines wrote:

  Weekend at Bernie's; 2/25/2022-2/27/2022 (Vero Beach): This was the first vintage of this wine and at the time I understand most of the fruit was sourced from Beckstoffer and so when I try this wine it sometimes reinforces for me my love of the mountain fruit and perhaps also the cab franc (which we saw planted many years ago and seems to be making its way into more recent vintages). This is a good wine, but I think the more recent Continuums have a higher upside long run.

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  10/1/2021 - skurtz Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Double decanted and waited 2h to breathe. Just a huge expression of chocolate blackberry pie, dark lush intense and delicious! Paired with skis vide brisket with close friends in Ithaca.

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  4/11/2021 - MXL Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Prefacing that 05 was a phenomenal year, typical Tim magic in the bottle. Started of as expected but the second glass had dropped off. I have 2 bottles from a third source so storage protocol is unknown. I have 1 bottle from the winery. It will be interesting to see if there is a difference. It was still VERY good.

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  12/26/2020 - DRob wrote:

  Christmas Dinner with Jill, Camy and LaVonne.
  Superb with the Prime Rib. Silky and full of dark fruit, glad we finally opened one!

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