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Drinking Window: 2018 - 2048 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 99 RP, 95 CT Region: Mount Veeder ABV: 14.4 - 14.9% "The nearly perfect, inky/purple-colored 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Mt. Veeder boasts abundant aromas of blueberry pie, ink, violets, burning embers, and camphor. The staggeringly intense, provocatively complex aromatics are followed by a full-bodied wine with exquisite concentration as well as a stunningly pure texture. One of the most prodigious 2007 Cabernets I tasted, it should provide magical drinking in 5-6 years, and last for three decades or more." * Robert Parker - Tasted: Dec. 2009
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Drinking Window: 2020 - 2071 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 98 RP, 98 WE Region: Stags Leap District ABV: 15.5%"Among the Napa Valley's most crowning achievements in Cabernet, this vintage of Hillside Select is stunning, bright and beguiling in every way. Intensely layered, its interwoven flavors burst in black licorice, dark chocolate, pipe tobacco, gun smoke and garrigue. Spicy oak adds to the power and weight. Drinkable now, it will show even better finesse in time." * Wine Enthusiast - Tasted: January 2018
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Drinking Window: 2021 - 2050 Size: 1500mL Critic Scores: 98 JA, 97 RP, 97 OB Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.5%"The 2016 Cardinale Red Wine is a thrilling blend of 89% Cabernet Sauvignon and 11% Merlot crafted by superstar winemaker, Chris Carpenter. the wine was aged in 100% French oak (93% new) for twenty months before bottling. The stunning aromatics almost catch you off guard. Deep aromatics of creme de cassis, graphite, creosote, and blackberry compote all come together seamlessly in the glass. The freshness and intensity of wine is gorgeous, as the silky mouthfeel makes the wine effortlessly glide across the mid-palate. Deep dark fruits collide with chocolate covered espresso bean, tar and anise flavors all marvelously sing in unison on the palate. A truly stunning heavy hitter of a wine, the 2016 Cardinale Red Wine will be very long-lived." * Owen Bargreen - Tasted: Feb 2020
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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: 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: 2025-2048 Size: 1.5 L Critic Scores: 97 WI Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.1%"Wonderful aromas of blackcurrants, dark plums, mint, sage, and dried wood. Some sandalwood. Full- to medium-bodied with tannins that have the texture of fine velvet and run down the length of the wine. Extremely polished and refined. Sophisticated. Firm at the end. This will age beautifully. Pure cabernet sauvignon." * James Suckling - Tasted: Feb. 2023
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Drinking Window: 2026 - 2046 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 96 WS, 96 WI, 96 WP, 95 RP Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.5%"An excellent wine, even if not a great Dominus, the 2020 Dominus delivers waves of dark fruit—think predominantly cassis. A blend of 95% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc, it's full-bodied and richly textured, perhaps a bit warm and open-knit because of the summer's heat, but with a long, velvety finish attractively tinged with mocha and dark chocolate." * Joe Czerwinski, Wine Advocate - Tasted: June 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 - 2052 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 99 WS, 99 OB, 99 WI Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.5%"What must be one of the finest renditions of this wine, the 2021 Cardinale is composed of nearly all Cabernet Sauvignon at 91% with the remainder being Merlot. Stored in 80% new French oak before bottling, this is a massive beast. A brilliant mélange of blackberry combine with tar, graphite, anise and creme de cassis on the plate. Big and round, with refined tannins and a generous mouthfeel, everything is firing on all cylinders." * Owen Bargreen - Tasted: Nov. 2024
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Drinking Window: 2026-2056 Size: 1.5 L Critic Scores: 98 JL, 96 RP Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.5%Inky, dark in color, the wine pops from the glass with its blackberries, black cherries, licorice, chocolate, smoke, cassis, and vanilla beans. Rich, concentrated, opulent, and intense, the wine coats your palate, teeth, and gums with waves of lusciously textured, dark fruits that linger. The wine is produced from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, coming from a parcel selection of the estate's oldest vines. With all of its ripe, round fruits, it can be enjoyed in its youth, or you can age it for additional complexities and softness. * Jeff Leve - Tasted: April 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 - 2052 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 98 WI Region: Oakville ABV: 15.6%"It's brighter and fresher than the regular Estate bottling, with notes of fresh raspberries and cherries joined by cedar and vanilla. Full-bodied in the mouth, it's taut and zesty, its ripe tannins accentuated by bright acidity. Yet to be released, give it a few years to round into form." * Joe Czerwinski - Tasted: Jan 31, 2024
