"A terrific effort from a challenging vintage, Chappellet's 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Pritchard Hill—94% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% Petit Verdot—boasts expressive scents of cassis, blackberries, vanilla and caramel. It's full-bodied, supple, generous, deep and round, expansive on the palate and framed by soft, fully ripe tannins and hints of mocha on the lingering, velvety finish. Showy, impressive and delicious, it should drink well for a couple of decades."
* Joe Czewinski, Wine Advocate - Tasted: Feb. 2025
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2045 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 98 RP, 98 JA, 98 WS, 98 WA Region: Napa Valley ABV:14.5 - 15%
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Drinking Window: TBD Size: 750mL Critic Scores: Scores Pending Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.1 - 14.7%
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Drinking Window: 2023 - 2065 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 100 RP, 100 WI, 100 WP Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.5% * CALL FOR SPEICAL PRICING *"The head-spinning 2019 Harlan Estate is truly amazing stuff. Gentle cedar notes lead into layered dark chocolate and cassis, somehow impossibly rich yet savory. Full-bodied, concentrated and supple, this is dense, packed with flavor but seemingly weightless, with a lush, lingering finish that combines intensity with freshness to compel sip after sip. Like all truly great wines, it's full of somehow harmonious contradictions." * Joe Czerwinski - Tasted: March 2023
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Drinking Window: 2025-2035 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 95 James Suckling Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.7-14.8%"A super creamy, delicious and detailed red with oodles of red fruit, silky tannins and a full body. It tastes pure, fresh, almost delicate, offering raspberries, cherry cream, blueberries, cafe au lait and subtle oak toast on the palate. A gentle, layered, pretty wine that seems not at all affected by the wildfire smoke that year. Drinkable now, but best from 2030."* James Suckling - Tasted: April 2025
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Drinking Window: 2025-2045 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 96 Decanter Region: Alexander Valley ABV: 13.9-14.5%"So full-bodied, ripe and robust, offering spicy, iron-like, black fruit aromas, with generous dark cherries on a firmly tannic palate. Concentrated black plum, graphite, black pepper, coffee bean, pine resin and oak toast flavors on a full body. The tannins are powerful and fine-grained, shaping the texture significantly at this stage. Drinkable now, but best from 2030."* James Suckling - Tasted: April 2025
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2035 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 96 Decanter Region: Sonoma Coast ABV: 14.8% "Aromas of blue fruit, strawberries and spices such as nutmeg. Medium-bodied with creamy and round tannins and some chocolate flavors. Savory and fruity finish. Drink now." * James Suckling - Tasted: Sept. 2025
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2046 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 99 JS, 97 JD, 97 Decanter Region: Mount Veeder ABV: 15.1% "The 2021 Mt. Brave Cabernet Sauvignon is inky in the glass. Offering mountain huckleberry and black raspberry notes on dried herbs. The palate is rich and viscous with incredible underly tension. Pencil lead, anise, crème de cassis and chocolate cake notes all combined on the palate. A joy to consume now, savor this beauty over the next twenty years to come." * Owen Bargreen - Tasted: Nov. 2024
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2046 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 99 TP Region: Paso Robles ABV: 15.2% "Opulent with purity and charm, giving aromas of blackberry and cherry, fig, dark chocolate, sweet tobacco, cedar and licorice with a mineral undertone. The palate is full-bodied with finely integrated tannins, balanced acidity and a plush, layered mouthfeel with a silken, refined feel. A blend of 76% cabernet sauvignon, 16% cabernet franc and 6% petit verdot. Drink or hold." * James Suckling - Tasted: June 2026
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Drinking Window: 2025-2055 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 98 DE Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.8% "Scarecrow’s M. Étain label – French for 'Tin Man' – debuted in 2008. "We wanted to create a companion label to Scarecrow utilizing the younger blocks, or cuts of Clone 337 that were too abundant for the flagship bottling," explains winemaker Celia Welch. The 2022 vintage is a blend of 87% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Malbec, 5% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot, all sourced from the J.J. Cohn estate in Rutherford, aged for 18 months in 60% new French oak and bottled unfined and unfiltered. In 2023, the wine reads as quintessential Rutherford, opening with perfectly ripe boysenberry and cherry before building into classic site signatures of dusty minerality, unsweetened cocoa powder and a hint of bergamot. As Welch notes, there is also a subtle touch of sweet basil—a detail that captures Rutherford’s terroir beautifully, that dusty earth component edged with gentle sweetness. The palate unfolds with impressive density and richness, yet retains lift, carried by blue, black and red fruit and generous cocoa-powder tannins through the expressive finish. Utterly delicious and immediately drinkable, yet firmly structured to evolve gracefully. Farming in 2023 was overseen by Domenick Bianco, formerly of Joseph Phelps Vineyards." * Johnathan Cristaldi, Decanter - Tasted: March 2026
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Drinking Window: 2027 - 2045 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 95 RP, 95 CT Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.5 - 15.7%
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Drinking Window: 2023 - 2035 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 95 CT Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.8% "The 2016 Lake William reflects the totality of its provenance and the promise our founder first saw when walking the property. Each facet combines to provide a harmonic balance of freshness and energy. Deep impactful color and floral on the nose, elegant black fruit, smoke and wet stone are delicately woven alongside a sophisticated acidity across the palate. The density of fruit provides generous weight that leads to balanced tannin and a distinguished, vibrant finish." * Winery Notes
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Drinking Window: 2027 - 2045 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 95 JS Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.7% "A classic Georges III with purity and refinement, giving aromas of black currants, wet stones, salt-cured meat and blackberries. The palate is full-bodied with mouthwatering, melting tannins, bright acidity, a luscious, mineral-edged finish and a savory, earthy undertone. Delicious, with plenty of aging potential. Drink or hold." * James Suckling - Tasted: Dec. 2025
