2019 Teeter-Totter Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

Look, we’re not gloating here, just reporting the facts.

We told you.

We are always all-in on Benoit Touquette’s Teeter-Totter Cabernet, and we weren’t shy about saying we expected his 2019 to create some serious critical excitement. Well, Jeb Dunnuck dropped his review of the ‘19 just a few weeks ago, and it deserves to have whole sentences reprinted.

“Readers looking for a great value in Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon should jump on the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon,” Dunnuck said. “It tastes as if it cost two to three times the price, and I’d be thrilled to drink bottles any time over the coming 10–12 years.”

That is what we call a straight-up rave. Touquette’s 100-point expertise and premium vineyard sources have once again delivered the kind of Napa opulence that commands triple digits—just look at other Dunnuck 94-pointers: La Jota and Ad Vivum are right there at $150 up and $175. 

But comme d’habitude—as usual, as Frenchmen like Touquette might say—Teeter-Totter delivers the same kind of quality at a price that might shock everyone except the Wine Access members who have been all over this wine from day one.

When Touquette left his home in Bordeaux for California’s Cabernet epicenter, he scored a position alongside Andy Erickson at Ovid and Screaming Eagle, and found a stellar mentor in Michel Rolland, the world-famous consulting winemaker whose name is on 100-pointers by Harlan, Bond, and Araujo. Touquette has followed in the footsteps of his teacher, making stellar Cabs that routinely win high scores—like this 2019 Teeter-Totter.

This Cabernet brings the kind of talent and terroir that usually doesn’t come for less than $150. Be sure to grab some before it disappears.

• Fruit Intensity
• Oak Intensity
• Body
• Acidity
• Tannin

• ABV 14.80%
• 30 mins
• Now – 2032
• % Cabernet Sauvignon
• Serving temperature – 62°
• Cork