2018 Whitehall Lane Tre Leoni Red Wine Napa Valley

If you’ve never heard of Whitehall Lane’s 2018 Tre Leoni Red Wine—a luscious blend of Napa Valley Cabernet, Merlot, and Zinfandel—well, there’s a VERY good reason for that. 

Tre Leoni is what Valley insiders call an “under the counter” pour: a value overachiever that a winery doesn’t dare serve in the tasting room because it might block sales of their $100+ bottles. That’s why Tre Leoni is never seen in the tasting room at Whitehall Lane. You also won’t see it on the shelf anywhere else. But because of our friendship with the Leonardini family of Whitehall Lane, we’ve got this gorgeous blend—one capable of upstaging far more expensive wines—for the kind of price you rarely see in Napa Valley anymore.

Three generations of the Leonardini Family (tre leoni, or “three lions”) collaborated to create this Cabernet Sauvignon–dominant blend, which comes from one of Napa Valley’s great vintages. Each grape variety was vinified separately and aged in French and American oak barrels. After 20 months, winemaker Jason Moulton assembled the final blend, bottling Tre Leoni unfined and unfiltered. 

The key to this wine’s show-stopping quality-to-value ratio is that the Leonardini family’s holdings are clustered in the high-quality AVAs of Rutherford and St. Helena, and they’ve owned their estate for almost 30 years.  The caliber of their estate fruit—not to mention the purchased fruit that went into this blend—is closer to that of the $60 or $75 red, itself already an endangered species in the Napa Valley.

Prisoner fans and Napa Valley Cabernet lovers, be forewarned: you are going to lose your cool for this wine. Lock in your case of this ruby-colored inflation-buster while it lasts.

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

• ABV 14.70%
• 30 mins
• Now – 2028
• % Cabernet Sauvignon% Merlot% Syrah% Zinfandel
• Serving temperature – 60°
• Cork