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Alexis was really feeling the wine. “This is big and brassy, like the horns at the start of Mahler’s fifth.” She swirled a little longer and continued “I have a hard time drinking anything if it doesn’t have a big personality, and most of those bottles tend to be pricey…but this right here…” She trailed…
Stand at the southwest corner of where Yountville Lane meets Silverado Trail, and you’ll be standing at one of the great Cabernet Sauvignon sites in Napa Valley. To the east, the famed Stags Leap Palisades loom over Cliff Lede’s Poetry Vineyard, which produces Lede’s $350 100-pointer. To the south is Joseph Phelps’ Barboza Vineyard, which…
Our buddy jumped into Napa Valley winemaking relatively late. He was no UC Davis wunderkind, but he made up for that by networking assiduously, showing up early, staying late, and never dropping the ball. After building a résumé with stints at a cult Howell Mountain Cab producer, a Pritchard Hill icon, and a Carneros Chardonnay…
You almost get the sense this winery doesn’t want to be found. The source estate behind today’s NDA-protected wine is not open to the public. Type the name into Google Maps and you get nada. For an address, if you really dig, the best you’ll find is a PO Box. That’s an impressive level of…
In 1976, a five-acre vineyard is planted in Calistoga. A close neighbor of California First Growth Chateau Montelena, it becomes a crown jewel of the area, its opulent Cabernet woven into era-defining wines from Duckhorn, Cakebread, and other blue-chip wineries. Estate-bottled Cabs run for $165 minimum. After decades, the vineyard changes hands, and a few…
Long before single-vineyard Cabs were commonplace, there was Eisele Vineyard. The site epitomizes why single-vineyard wines exist, because it offers a unique balance of elegance and power and stands alone in this part of the Valley for quality. The alluvial volcanic soils fanning out from the base of the Vaca Palisades offer terrific drainage, which…
You can practically smell Faust Vineyard before you can see it. One of the pioneers 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 as you…
“How many household-name Cabernets would you say there are in Napa?” We started ticking them off. Opus One, Harlan Estate, Screaming Eagle… Halpin cut us off. “No, no, no. Not cult Cabernets that only the one-percenters know,” he said. “I mean household names. I mean rock-solid Cabernet you can hang your Stetson on, pardon the…
Lapostolle is Chile’s most important red wine producer, a legendary estate whose $170 (often 100-point) Clos Apalta bottling sets the bar for the region. But they should be equally lauded for the outrageous quality they pack into everyday bottles like their 2022 Cuvée Alexandre Cabernet. Grown on a biodynamically farmed vineyard first planted in 1920,…
We know a lot of people in Napa Valley. We don’t know anyone else like LOLA founder and winemaker Seth Cripe. A high-school dropout, he trained his palate while washing dishes at one of Florida’s best restaurants. At age 17, already obsessed with wine, he saved up $1,200 and drove clear across the country to…
Head out of Opus One’s south side and turn left onto Oakville Cross Road. That’s it. Those are the directions to the secret source behind the 2022 Meadowcroft Napa Cabernet, a site so close to Opus that you’d feel silly taking a car. A bike might even be overkill. Hit Silver Oak, you’ve gone too…
Off the Cuff: It’s a label we reserve for true lightning-strike deals—the kind that materialize when deep connections, right-place-right-time fortune, and the decisiveness of an F1 driver all come together. These wines represent some of the biggest bargains we get—and we scored an absolute whopper in the 2022 Off the Cuff Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley. …
On a recent Sunday, we found ourselves at a noisy watch party at this winemaker’s house in St. Helena, with a back-patio, big-screen view of the latest drama-filled bout between the Bills and the Chiefs. With the Buffalo Bills playing suffocating man coverage, we were feeling lucky. Casually turning to the winemaker, we made a…
Six years ago, our newest employee—Eduardo Dingler, now a Wine Access veteran—introduced us to a tiny-production Cabernet crafted by one of Napa’s hottest up-and-coming winemakers. Eduardo was so enamored with the wine that he’d poured it by the glass at two of his restaurants. The wine was On Q’s Cadence Cabernet Sauvignon, and it blew…
In 1978, in what’s known as the Bedroom Summit, Robert Mondavi and Baron Philippe de Rothschild cemented their plan for Opus One. The idea had been cooking since the men first met eight years earlier, and now—as we offer you the 42nd vintage—Opus One stands as one of the great wines of the world. And…
Pilcrow is one of the best classically styled Napa Cabs we’ve tasted, and their 98-point 2022 Granite Lake Howell Mountain Cab is the exact kind of elegant, harmonious, ageworthy Cabernet that is getting everyone’s attention. Decanter called it “just gorgeous” and “a masterful expression of site” in their 98-point review, which puts it with some…
Ask longtime collectors of Napa Valley Cabernet how they choose a bottle and they’ll tell you it comes down to three things. First, the winemaker. Second, location. Third, vintage. So, if we take the 2022 Silver Ghost, let’s go in that order: First, the winemaker is Weston Eidson, whose work bears the marks of his…
The northeast corner of Oakville, just south of where Skellenger Road bends north toward Beckstoffer’s Georges III Vineyard, is one of the holiest places in Napa Cabernet. Gargiulo’s Money Road Ranch is there. So are Meyer Family (from one of Silver Oak’s founding families), Groth, and Plumpjack. Just to the south sit O’Shaughnessy and Bond’s…
It seemed like a good idea at the time. The Napa winery behind today’s velvety, NDA-protected Cabernet wanted to see what they could do with grapes from the other side of the Mayacamas. To play around with some Sonoma County fruit—just for the hell of it—and they had an “in” with one of the most…
Joey Tensley’s Fundamental Cabernet is THE benchmark Cab for the under-$20 category—and a wine that’s inspired a legion of fans among Wine Access drinkers. “Perhaps the best QPR ratio on any bottle of wine I have ever purchased,” one member gushed in their five-star review. “I challenge anyone to find a bottle of wine at…
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