95 Decanter 

1975 was a great vintage for Napa, as this wine bears witness. Youthful aromas of smoky black fruit, cedar and cigar ash are the prelude to a wine of striking concentration and energy that is ageing with effortless grace.

94 John Gilman

The 1975 Mondavi Reserve Cabernet continued to drink beautifully at age forty-two, offering up bright, complex and fully mature bouquet of red and black cherries, cigar wrapper, Rutherford dust, hints of bell pepper, pretty spice tones and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full and quite refined in profile, with the rock solid core of the ’75 vintage still quite in evidence, melted tannins and impressive focus and grip on the long, complex and beautifully balanced finish. This is right up there with the more powerful, but less resolved 1974 Reserve from the winery and is one of the best vintages ever produced of this iconic 1970s bottling from Robert Mondavi. This wine had decades of life still in it!