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If you fancy yourself a Napa Cabernet lover, let us introduce you to Keever Vineyards, one of the valley’s best kept secrets. Since 2002, Bill and Olga Keever have employed an all-star duo: Jim Barbour farms their extraordinary estate when he’s not farming vines for Hundred Acre or Revana and the formidable Celia Welch (Staglin,…
Ever since she put cult wine Screaming Eagle on the map, the world has been clamoring for Heidi Barrett Cabernet. La Sirena is THE Heidi Barrett Cabernet. The tiny brand that she founded when her Screaming Eagle and Dalla Valle bottlings were making her the hottest winemaker in California, La Sirena Cabernets capture the 100-point…
Australia’s Ripeness and Power Meets European Elegance and Nuance Some call it Australia’s most famous terroir: a mile-wide, 13-mile long strip of rich, rust-red “terra rossa” soil in Australia’s famed Coonawarra district. Along this precious stretch lie vines that have produced some of the country’s most sought-after and famous Cabernet Sauvignons. “A well-aged and carefully…
Stags Leap Grapes, Lafite Rothschild-Trained Winemaker Today’s 2014 Matthew Wallace Cabernet Sauvignon might not have one weakness. The fruit hails from Block One of the Regusci Vineyard—perhaps the most famed terroir in Napa’s iconic Stags Leap District—where it is farmed under the expert eye of Matthew Wallace proprietor Matt Hardin, who is a partner in…
Cabernet Drinkers Take Note: The De La Mota Legacy & Mendel Robert Parker’s reviews have changed the wine world’s landscape more than once. And so it was in 1992, when The Wine Advocate founder published a series of rave reviews for the work of Raúl de la Mota at Bodegas Weinert. Of Raúl’s 1977 Malbec,…
“A World-Class Cabernet Sauvignon” Opening a bottle of Michel Rolland’s own Napa Cabernet Sauvignon comes with a certain level of anticipation. After all, this is the man who steered to greatness Bordeaux châteaux such as Angélus, Ausone, Pavie, and Pontet-Canet, as well as iconic Napa estates such as Bond, Bryant Family, Harlan, and Staglin. After…
Morlet’s “Rockstar” Bottles Luc Morlet is a winemaker of impeccable credentials, a French-born master who has trained his formidable talents on California—and has a host of 100-point wines to show for it, having achieved perfection at both Peter Michael Winery, and his own Morlet Family Vineyards. Critic Jeb Dunnuck has summed it up very succinctly: Morlet…
A Reserve Cabernet of Serious Value Britt Nichols’ 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is one of the finest wines she’s ever made. Following its initial release, Wine Access clients confirmed as much, doling out 220 combined 4- and 5-star ratings. We weren’t surprised given the provenance of the deeply flavored, purple/black Cabernet Sauvignon that Britt used…
Technically, we’d had the appointment for about a month. But realistically, we’d been looking forward to it for years. So on a beautiful August day, the Wine Access offices in the town of Napa emptied. Everyone in the company headed north on Silverado Trail to the Oakville AVA, to make our first official visit to…
Philip Togni has made over 50 vintages on three continents, as well as studying under Bordeaux’s father of modern winemaking — Emile Peynaud. Togni made wines in the 1950s at Second Growth Château Lascombes in Margaux, then crossed the pond to work at Mayacamas Vineyards in Napa in the 1960s, before landing at Chappellet where…
When the Harlan family undertakes a new endeavor, the wine world takes notice. Bill Harlan, proprietor of Harlan Estate, BOND, and Meadowood, discovered the site that would one day be Promontory during a hike along the edge of Oakville in the 1980s . Since Promontory first landed on the international wine stage in 2014 with…
Robert Parker called the 2014 Purlieu Cabernet Sauvignon a “real knock-out” and a “superb example of Napa Cabernet Sauvignon” in his 94-point review. The winemaking superstar behind this praise is Philippe Melka protégé Julien Fayard, who under Melka’s tutelage made wines for Dalla Valle, Métisse, Lail, and Gemstone. His master craftsmanship is on full display…
Thomas Rivers Brown’s current trophy case boasts more than 25 perfect 100-point wines, and he has stopped counting. Brown’s mid-2000s hot streak thrust him into the spotlight as one of Napa’s hottest commodities, and he took over at Revana, filling the shoes of Heidi Barrett of Screaming Eagle fame. His 2014 Revana “Terroir Series” Cabernet…
Galloni Falls Hard for 2014 Rutherford “Dust” The 2014 Napa Valley vintage inspired a full-throated, unanimous chorus of praise from the critics. Robert Parker suggested in his vintage report “The Game Changer” that the 2012-2014 harvests were the most extraordinary back-to-back-to-back years in Napa Valley history, with 2014 making for the third consecutive extraordinary season.“A…
Today’s 95-point single-vineyard library release, the 2014 Rudius Cabernet Sauvignon, has so much going for it: First, Rudius is a Wine Access member favorite with a massive tally of perfect 5-star reviews, including one that proclaimed “Off the charts best wine I ever drank from Wine Access!” Secondly, it’s crafted by winemaker Jeff Ames, the…
Jeff Ames Sold His Home to Make Wine Today, it’s easy to see why winemaker Jeff Ames had the confidence to start Rudius — one of the greatest new wineries to emerge in Napa this decade: Five of his wines from the drought years of 2012 and 2013 scored between 94 and 96 points from…
Follow-Up To Parker’s “Killer Effort” Cab Winemaker Jeff Ames (the force behind Tor Kenward) became an overnight Wine Access favorite after his 2013 Rudius “Kaley Elizabeth” Napa Cabernet sold out in mere hours. Parker’s 96+ point score called it a “killer effort,” “multilayered, deep, powerful, concentrated,” and declared it would last “40+ years.” Ames’ voluptuous…
One of St. Helena’s Closely Guarded Secrets This Napa Cabernet comes with our highest recommendation: In the heart of St. Helena, surrounded by all-star names like VGS Chateau Potelle, Heitz, Crocker & Starr, and the Beckstoffer Dr. Crane Vineyard lies Salvestrin winery, an under-the-radar Napa jewel Robert Parker called “a positive surprise” among his recent…
There’s a reason Robert Parker dubbed Seavey Vineyard’s Caravina Cabernet Sauvignon “perhaps the best second wine in all of Napa Valley.” An opulent mountainside Cabernet Sauvignon that benefits from a healthy 11% dose of aromatic Petit Verdot, the focused tension of the standout 2014 vintage seems especially magnified in this release. The ultimate insider’s Cabernet,…
With Silver Oak, we take our relationship with the Duncan family quite seriously, so whenever Matt calls about meeting, we drop everything and oblige him—and that’s exactly what happened and led to this rare allocation. At 5:30 p.m. sharp, we rode the elevator up to the top floor of the Archer Hotel in downtown Napa….
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