Lot 47 2024 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 750ml

Lot 47 comes to us from a notable estate program on Pritchard Hill. We received two lots, one comprised of two barrels of a BDX blend comprised of 50% Cabernet, 41% Merlot and 9% Cabernet Franc and the second Lot comprised of three barrels of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. The two barrel lot originates from their $300+ higher-end BDX blend program, the three-barrel lot from their circa $200/bottle Cabernet Sauvignon program. I would have happily bottled them separately, but the simple fact is they were better blended together. This is not about logistics. 

Whether these wines didn't make the final bottling blend, or just inventory control, or they simply weren't up to speed, I don't know. What I do know is the base components were fantastic and the blend we put together is mind-blowingly gorgeous (we did add an additional 5% Cabernet, 5% PV and 2% MB to the final blend). Our plan it to keep the wine in barrel through January and bottle in February...as I mentioned in the email, the 24's are ripe and open knit and we do not feel the wine needs to stay in barrel any longer. However, I do suspect this wine will take some time to come around in the bottle.

Deep purple around the edges with an opaque core verging on squid ink. My sense after having tasted a bunch of Napa valley '24 Cabernet's is that the best will come from elevation. Lot 47 comes from a vineyard at 1,500 feet which, I think, explains the incredible bouquet. Sexy and vibrant and worth the price of entry in and of itself...crazy uplifted creme de cassis and blackberry pie notes are piercing and uplifted with beautiful purple flowers, leather and sage notes. DAY 2, the bouquet continues to open, complexing with blueberry and chocolate along with graphite and cedar underpinned with iron and rock. Sublime. On entry, perfectly ripe fruit is interlaced with a massive-yet-elegant, minerally mountain tannin structure with layers of redcurrant and raspberry that unfurl the darker fruited cassis and boysenberry notes in a chocolatey finish with leather and iron retro-nasals. Velvety and ripe yet remarkably elegant and complex , these lots were made with Swiss-watch precision and artfully blended by winemaker Katie, who deserves tons of credit for knitting these together so seamlessly. This wine will age effortlessly for decades.

88% base blend (80% Cabernet, 16.5% Merlot and 3.5% Cabernet Franc) blended with 5% Oakville Cabernet, 5% Petite Verdot (Oakville), 2% Malbec (Coombsville)
100% new French oak
~130 cases produced
14.8% alc, pH 3.65, TA 5.2 g/L