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Wed, Oct 22, 2025 03:00PM EDT - Thu, Oct 23, 2025 03:00PM EDT
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Lot 130
2013 Abreu Vineyards Las Posadas Howell Mountain - 3 bottle(s)-750ml
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This lot is comprised of 3 bottle(s) of 2013 Abreu Vineyards Las Posadas Howell Mountain - 750ml. Estimate for this lot is between $1400 - $2000 with a BUY IT NOW of $1700. The wine in this lot belongs to collection 11543.
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An Ontario-based consignor who has carefully monitored and maintained his wine collection. He has a deep appreciation for Bordeaux but holds a special love for California wines, spending considerable time in Napa. He sourced his bottles from the LCBO, SAQ and some Alberta wine retailers, and directly from California wineries. All bottles were stored in immaculate conditions in his Eurocave wine cabinets, which are both temperature and humidity controlled.
2013 Abreu Vineyards Las Posadas Howell Mountain from this lot has the following scores - The Wine Advocate 100 points. This is the tasting note for 2013 Abreu Vineyards Las Posadas Howell Mountain from Robert Parker - with a score of 100. Abreu is now calling his vineyard on Howell Mountain (a tract of 33 acres with 15 planted) Las Posadas, after the road high on the mountain that seems to be the Fifth Avenue of Howell Mountain vineyard sites. The 2013 Las Posadas Proprietary Red was unreal from barrel, and that extraordinary Midas touch exhibited by Grimes and Abreu has extended to this wine out of bottle, which is a showcase for Howell Mountain and the meticulous viticulture and winemaking of Abreu and Grimes. Inky purple to the rim, with an extraordinary nose of sweet mulberry, intense graphite, scorched earth, smoldering wood charcoal, and massive blackberry and cassis fruit, this intriguing and provocative wine also throws in hints of licorice and black truffle. It is extremely rich, full-bodied, and nearly an out-of-body experience. Look for it to improve in age for 40 to 50 years. I can see consumers opening it circa 2065 to 2075 and saying, “Wow – what a great vintage this must have been!”.