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When a winemaker is clearing out an estate cellar—either to make room for a new vintage or due to a change in ownership—incredible deals can be unearthed that would otherwise NEVER be on the table. Scoring one is unlikely without the right connections—and impossible without some luck. For instance, just the other week, a wine-industry…
Some Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons sell themselves. The 2012 Gallica Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville wine is not one of them. It’s NOT a late-picked showboat designed to win a 100-point score. It’s not from a winery with a packed tasting room. But if you’ve ever gotten goosebumps from a graceful bottle of Spottswoode Estate Cabernet Sauvignon…
Michel Rolland Protege’s Win-Win No. 1 Langner got his start at the Rothschild family’s Château Clarke in Bordeaux. He founded Hesperian, a boutique Napa winery and has impressed Robert Parker with his wines “that can evolve for two decades or more.” But last October’s fires hit Langner hard, his home and office atop Atlas Peak…
Here at Wine Access, our penchant for rugged mountain Cabernet is no secret. We love its complexity, depth, and power, and have a deep appreciation for the growers who toil to craft it. These bottles exude passion and character at every turn, and reward patience with their steady evolution. Anytime we get to offer a…
A Dream Come True on Heart Attack Hill In the spring of 1994, Craig MacLean got his first look at a steep slope at the base of Spring Mountain. MacLean was a student of the mountain, and the head winemaker at Spring Mountain Vineyard thought he knew its many faces about as well as anyone….
Setting A High Bar in Mendoza: Aurelio Montes’ 93-point Cabernet Sauvignon Even as so many critics have hopped on the Argentine Cabernet Sauvignon bandwagon, for the most part, we’ve stayed on sidelines. How come? While dark and ultra-concentrated, all too many Mendoza Cabernet Sauvignons lack the structure we look for in Cabernet. Maybe we’ve set…
A Screaming Eagle Script in Calistoga Patrick Chapman was on Easy Street. When you head up direct-to-consumer marketing for a Napa Valley winery with a name that begins with “Screaming,” the challenge isn’t in selling the new vintage, but in managing collector allocations. “The most remarkable thing about my previous employer is the resolve and…
2012: A Watershed Year for Cabernet Sauvignon on Mt. Veeder More than in any Napa Valley AVA, Mount Veeder’s varied expositions, soil types, and high-elevation perches give birth to Cabernet Sauvignons of wildly disparate makeup. Those of you who have laid away bottles of Peter Rubissow’s Mount Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon are well acquainted with the…
Thanks to our close friendship with Larkmead winemaker and 2017 San Francisco Chronicle Winemaker of the Year Dan Petroski—and of course a very fortuitous visit to the winery—we’re sharing a previously unreleased etched magnum of the 2012 Larkmead Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley. The 2012 Larkmead Cabernet is a regal wine that Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate called…
Larkmead, as much as any wine in Napa Valley, is about time. The millennia have left the property with a layer of gravel more than 300 feet deep, and their Cabernet rarely makes it into the bottle until the vines have reached 10 to 15 years of age. The only thing that can make a…
Napa 2012 Was Once A Vintage of Plenty. Today, It’s A Collector’s Game. Rarity, value, and a historic vintage seldom go hand in hand like they do today. We go way back with this benchmark Merryvale Cabernet bottling—all the way back to the first moment we realized that 2012 would be one of the most…
Robert Parker’s “Abundance of Riches” — 2012 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon Collection You have to go all the way back to 2007 to find a Napa Valley vintage that was received with as much enthusiasm as the monumental 2012 harvest. Seasoned veterans like Chuck Wagner at Caymus pronounced this a “watershed vintage,” one that combined copious…
A couple of years ago, we discovered an exquisite back-vintage Cabernet grown on a dusty three-acre site at the base of Howell Mountain, in the prestigious St. Helena AVA. It wasn’t a wine our members knew—as a matter of fact, it was a wine that barely anyone outside the neighborhood knew. Despite the fact that…
100-point Philippe Melka Up Howell Mtn. Road In March 2015, we assembled a lineup of over 100 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons from the challenging 2011 vintage. We called that tasting “The NYC Marathon.” Of the wines tasted, roughly half proved to be too lean and angular for WineAccess consideration. At the end of the day,…
2012 Robert Mondavi To Kalon Vineyard Reserve: H.W. Crabb’s Oakville Gold Rush Henry Walker Crabb, also known as Hiram Walker Crabb, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, on the first day of January 1828. Twenty-five years later, H.W. moved west and settled in California. Most easterners who moved west in the 1850s did so in…
PRESS Whispers & Leslie Rudd’s Oakville Cabernet When we were last in Napa Valley, tasting barrel after barrel of the 2014s to get a read on the vintage, the experience left us a little peckish. This time, The French Laundry was out of the question, as our collective per diem wouldn’t get us more than…
WineAccess Experience: Rolling Out the Red Carpet at Signorello Estate When we first conjured up the idea for WineAccess Experiences, we did so with two things in mind. First, we were looking for a sales rap with which to engage the Napa Valley elite — wineries turning out Cabernet Sauvignons that have been rated 96-100…
2012: 94pt Smith-Madrone … When the Critics Came to Spring Mountain Smith-Madrone is perched on backbreaking slopes between 1,300 and 2,000 feet in elevation. In the early 1970s, Stu Smith studied the Spring Mountain landscape for a year before deciding to plant a small patch of Riesling on an east-facing slope, Chardonnay on the cool-facing…
Spectator Wine of the Year Winemaker’s Forgotten Cabernet At $95 from the winery, this rare library release wine-club only Cabernet is just $49.99 per bottle—47% off. Why? There are good reasons you might not have heard of this remarkably powerful, pedigreed Napa Cabernet culled from the elevated Atlas Peak vines of Elkington Setty Ranch and…
2012 Tom Eddy Cabernet Sauvignon: “Shutting Down the Sorting Table” In early September 2012, we trekked the steep slopes of Atlas Peak and Diamond Mountain with Tom Eddy. Eddy has been crafting brilliantly elegant Napa Valley Cabernets for over 30 years. Still, the veteran winemaker told us, he had “never seen a growing season quite…
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