It's been YEARS since I've had a Mondavi cab, so long that this is the first one I've had from the most recent decade. I was a fan in the early 90's but when the wine took a huge jump in price there around 92-94, I bailed. I picked up this one recently on a lark, thought it would be fun to revisit an old friend.
Well. My palate's changed a lot since those early days so maybe it's me, but this wine didn't resemble the Mondavi cabs I remember. Dense black fruit, thick saturated flavors and viscosity, very sweet, a lot of vanilla and--especially surprising--relatively low acid. We couldn't finish the bottle.