Lot 80 2024 Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon

BOTTLING JUNE/JULY

AUTOMATIC FREE SUMMER HOLD: SHIPPING UPON REQUEST

To say Lot 80 2024 Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon checks all the boxes is putting it mildly.

Make no mistake about it, this is a magnificent wine.

Legendary Brand. Check.
Legendary Vineyards. Check
World-class Winemaking. Check
World-class Facility. Check.
$300++ price point. Check.
100% new French oak. Check.
Consistent 95-100 point scores from major critics over the years. Check.

It's all here folks. 

Prior to the last year, I have never seen an ounce of wine from this producer hit the bulk market but, then again, I have never seen market conditions such as they are right now. Quite frankly, it is insane.

However, as they say, the show must go on and the name of the game today is to survive, to live again to fight another day, which these folks most certainly will.

This the third wine they've offered me in the past year and, I promise, the finest.

Potent-yet-plush, concentrated-yet-silky, with purity and beauty to spare, this wine is the epitome of finesse and class for Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, sourced from some of the most legendary vineyards in Oakville and precision-crafted by the finest winemakers in one of the best wineries in the world. Truly Icon-level.

Lot 80 2024 Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon is a simply stunning wine, reminiscent of the 2019 vintage, and we are bottling it up as received.

I am honored to have been able to purchase it and offer it to you.

And that is all I can tell you.

Other than the price...just $249/case.

Go.

Beautifully extracted with an inky core and a kiss of vibrant purple around the rim. Right out of the bottle, it leaps from the glass pouring forth a heady bouquet of graphite, black plum, crushed blackcurrants, and lots of toasty oak. As it complexes, blackberry, toasted caramel/hazelnut and river gravel notes are interlaced with espresso, dark chocolate and new car leather. Spicy ripe cherry, rose petal, and tobacco notes join as the bouquet continues to unwind. Phenomenal complexity here, delicately laced together with incredibly nuance and precision. Supple on entry with a powerful-yet-elegant structure of perfectly arrayed black, purple and red fruit beautifully attenuated over robust, chalky-yet-fine-grained, gravel-laced tannins that unfurl a long finish of blackberry, blackcurrant and cassis notes delicately woven into the potent structure. 

89% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc, 4% Petite Verdot 1% Merlot, 1% Malbec
100% Oakville District, 100% Estate Vineyards
100% new French oak
14.7% alc., 3.8 pH, 5.34 g/L TA, .24 g/L Malic, 1.24 g/L Lactic
~350 cases available