Lot 74 2024 Napa Valley Merlot

BOTTLING JUNE 2026 - AUTOMATIC SUMMER HOLD

SHIPPING AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Beautifully extracted with a dark, inky core and vibrant purple rim, Lot 74 hails from the best upper blocks in the "vineyard that shall not be named" produced by the same winery as Lot 75 and, while dark and inky in the glass, features a ridiculously expressive and vibrant bouquet with rich, ripe, energetic structure to match.

Normally one of the main components in a $150+/bottle Icon-level proprietary red blend (this was the best, so we passed on the other components), Lot 74 is a no-expense-spared production featuring ~65% new French oak. Napa Cab-lovers take note: this is every bit as powerfully structured, complex and compelling as any icon-level Cabernet Sauvignon...in short, this is one spectacular Merlot! 

And the price is equally spectacular, just $149/case!!!!

Only 150 cases to go around...

Dark, inky core with vibrant purple rim. Soaring, energetic bouquet of black and blue fruit, cacao and fresh-turned black earth complexed with leather and cedar. As the bouquet opens damson plum and tobacco leaf notes join the fray, the end result a tremendously complex bouquet. On the palate, fleshy ripe fruit is slathered over muscular-yet-elegant, fine, mountain mineral-laced tannins unfurling a huge, swashbuckling finish of blueberry and plums haloed with tobacco leaf notes. Rich, ripe, energetic and complex, Lot 74 beautifully captures the essence of the 2024 vintage. Drinking great now, it will absolutely knock your socks off at this price...or any price for that matter.

100% Napa Valley
90% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Sauvignon, 1% Petite Sirah (the only component not from the same vineyard or producer).
60% new French oak.
14.9% alc, 3.5 pH, 6.9 g/L TA, .32 g/L Malic, .58 g/L Lactic
~150 cases to be produced