Lot 75 2024 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

The flagship offering from this producer, Lot 75 2024 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is sourced from the "vineyard that shall not be named that stretches from Atlas Peak to Pritchard Hill". Frontlining under it's original label for well into the lower triple digits, Lot 75 is a blockbuster mountainside 2024 Cabernet Sauvignon at an incredible price.

It goes without saying that the 2024 vintage of this wine will be a decidedly different style. The 2023 vintage of this wine, Lot 14 (sold to Founding members and VIPs last year) was a dense, packed, tightly-wound monster of a Cabernet. Lot 75 is far more generous, ripe and open-knit. I think it infanticide to drink Lot 14 right now; conversely, Lot 75 is likely to be quite approachable even by the Fall (in fact, it's drinking great now in November). Sure, it has plenty of structure and fortitude (such that it would age another 10-15 years) but the tannins are so ripe and generous, the fruit so bold and rich, that it will drink deliciously with just a couple months in the bottle. The alcohol is high here at 15.8% but the wines hows no signs of heat. As well, please note the pH of 3.78 and 6.64 TA, which is quite typical of high-quality vintages, balancing ripeness with stability and ensuring vibrancy and freshness.

100% new French Oak. Opaque, almost squid ink in the glass with a little bit of electric magenta bead around the rim. The bouquet is far more open-knit and more effusive than the 2023, beaming with iron and graphite with a violet-infused garrigue surrounded by intense, ripe blackberry liqueur pierced with blackcurrants, leather and cedar notes. Massive-yet-sumptuous on the palate, far more open-knit and accessible with ripe blackberry jam and chocolate enmeshed in big-grained, mineral and rock-laced tannins and pretty violet and iron retronasals. Whereas the 2023 was a tightly wound monster of a wine, Lot 75 is a lush, velvety, hedonistic Cabernet Sauvignon more akin to BOOM BOOM juice while still maintaining fantastic structure and balance...utterly gobsmacking juice!

100% Cabernet Sauvignon,
100% Napa Valley, single-block, single-vineyard grown at 1500-1700-feet of elevation
15.8% alc., 3.78 pH, 6.64 TA, .13 g/L Malic, .83 g/L lactic
130 cases available