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Don Melchor is the Southern Hemisphere’s most famous and lauded Cabernet—and the 2021 may be its best vintage ever. The wine is the flagship bottling of Concha y Toro, the winery that put Chile on the international map. Like Robert Mondavi’s To Kalon Cabernet or Beringer’s Private Reserve, it shows what’s possible when a large…
Courtney Benham might be the king of “How did he do that?” grape sourcing. He produces stunning bottlings from Napa Valley’s top AVAs—all exceptional wines that move with haste from our warehouse to our members’ cellars—and his 2021 Reserve Cabernet is a selection of some of the choicest barrels in the cellar. This is a…
Dalla Valle crafts some of the most coveted wines in the country. And aside from a handful of top restaurants such as PRESS in St. Helena, members of the mailing list claim almost all of their new releases. The winery’s stature is inversely proportional to its size—just 20 planted acres, in Oakville’s famed eastern hills….
Four prime barrels. That’s all that was made of the 2021 Devil’s Well Cabernet: a mere 100 cases of dark, powerful Napa Cab that normally merits a $115 price-tag and flagship status on the winery’s website. Devil’s Well is one of the smashing Cabernet successes of the past few years, with members writing reviews like,…
It was a bright Napa Valley afternoon, we were standing in the vines with our winemaker friend, who was springing a Rutherford pop quiz on us. “Here’s an easy one: Can you name three vineyards in between Conn Creek and Silverado Trail…” We started to reply, then he said, “… BESIDES Caymus, Georges III, and…
Oakville. No place-name in Napa Valley rings with more quality and prestige. That, however, doesn’t mean all of Oakville is created equal. Some areas within the prized appellation carry even more well-earned cachet than their counterparts—and the aptly named Money Road is one of them. Money Road slices through Oakville’s tenderloin. Located not far from…
“Y’all aren’t nearly deep enough into Coombsville.” We were having lunch with a winemaker friend of ours at her place—it was about to be bottling season, and hoses wound in every direction, moving wine from barrel to tank and from one tank to another. At her request, we brought hoagies for the crew in exchange…
Benoît Touquette is a household name among Wine Access devotees. He’s at the pinnacle of Napa winemaking, with seemingly countless 100-point scores to his name. His Cabernets can fetch between $300 and $1,300+ (seriously) per bottle. That’s why we’re so thrilled to have a tiny allocation of Benoît’s 2021 Fait-Main Beckstoffer Missouri Hopper Cabernet. From…
You can practically smell Faust Vineyard before you can see it. One of the first marquee sites in Coombsville, planted in 1998 by the same team behind Quintessa, it’s among the most distinctive sites in southern Napa. Aromas of herbaceous bay leaves and the salty air of the San Pablo Bay waft over the hills…
On the car ride to visit the St. Helena vineyard source for this wine, it was impossible to miss the caliber of the neighboring estates:. Winemaker Trevor Sheehan has again pulled off the impossible: transforming a coveted allocation of grapes from a top Napa vineyard—one that neighbors Chappellet, Bryant, Colgin, and Continuum, among others—into a…
“It takes ‘Rutherford Dust’ to make great Cabernet Sauvignon,” wrote legendary winemaker André Tchelistcheff. But to acquire great Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon these days, it takes a Benjamin. Or three. That’s why the Girard Rutherford Cabernet is such a steal. For this stellar bottle, Girard Winery tapped two prime Rutherford sites—one called Ithaca, on Highway 29…
They said they’d never make a Cabernet Sauvignon. Why should they? They’ve been legendary pioneers of cool-climate Sonoma Pinot Noir since the 1980s. Today, their wines—ethereal, elegant, finessed—are iconic, mentioned in the same breath as Littorai, Rivers-Marie, and Kosta Browne. Robert Parker even praised their Pinot as one of the finest he’s tasted in California. …
Wine Access members go crazy for every Kukeri offer, and when we took a sip of their 2021 Napa Valley Cab, we were immediately reminded why. With brooding, mountain-bred aromas of blackberry and plum announcing a voluptuous palate dominated by dark fruit and spice, it was a Cabernet dream. Even more impressive, the wine comes…
When Maayan Koschitzky, Atelier Melka’s Director of Winemaking, founded La Pelle Wines with the vineyard dream-team of Pete Richmond and Miguel Luna, the wine world had daunting expectations. La Pelle has surpassed them all. The label is one of the most in-demand in Napa Valley, and their phenomenal 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve shows why collectors…
For the Lapostolle family, the story of the founding of Clos Apalta is practically a legend. In 1994, Alexandra Marnier Lapostolle visited the Apalta Valley, not far from the town of Santa Cruz in the Colchagua Valley. When she arrived, she saw something that was so improbable that she could barely believe her eyes: A…
In the November 15th, 2024 edition of Wine Spectator, longtime Napa Valley denizen James Molesworth VERY quietly made an earth-shaking proclamation. After tasting over 700 California Cabernets over the past year, he gave the 2021 vintage a staggering score of 97 points. That puts it ahead of the outstanding 2015 and 2019 seasons and, by…
Founded in 1978 by Chris Bilbro, now in the hands of his sons, Jake and Scot, Marietta has focused on quality at reasonable pricing from the very beginning. They started with their spectacular Old Vine Red, a “mixed blacks” blend that quickly became a company calling card. Today the winery owns and farms 400 acres…
Martin Ray wines consistently deliver impressive value—but their 97-point 2021 Diamond Mountain Cabernet takes things to another level. High up in the Mayacamas Range, the Diamond Mountain District is the most rugged and sparsely planted appellation in all of Napa Valley, producing wines that have a unique power that reflects their rocky upbringing. Diamond Mountain…
Rutherford might be the most famous AVA in Napa Valley. Its soils are world-renowned, and the list of vineyards and wineries there reads like the list of cameos in an Altman film: Caymus, BV #1, Scarecrow, Staglin, Georges III, Quintessa—a slew of greats. The label doesn’t reveal the specific provenance, but Martin Ray’s 2021 Cab…
Winemaker Britt Nichols’ résumé is sterling. After a stint at Jordan, she landed one of the most sought-after cellar jobs in the valley, at Peter Michael, assisting Nicolas Morlet in making the iconic 2010 Les Pavots. A year later, she was recruited by Philippe Melka, the Bordeaux émigré who Robert Parker named “one of the…
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