Grand Napa 2015 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

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GRAND NAPA 
2015 RESERVE
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
 
Grand Napa’s 2015 Reserve Cabernet is a perfect example of what we strive to offer you with our Saturday emails.  At the $85 retail price, this wine will bring a smile to your face, but at $39.99 it’s an absolute “must have.”  We painstakingly taste (tough job but someone has to do it,) more than 70 wines each week, searching for incredible bottles with even more incredible discounts.  Grand Napa’s 2015 Reserve Cabernet lures you in with a dramatic aromatic performance laced with candied red berries, espresso roast, blackberry, camphor, dark chocolate and dried violets.
 
This silky wine is rich, compact, and created in a style that you’ll love right out of the bottle, yet has the structure to go for more than a decade.  Composed of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Petite Verdot and additions of Cabernet Franc and Merlot, this wine cascades across your palate and is wrapped with velvety tannins.  Don’t wait too long to secure a case.
 
GRAND NAPA
2015 RESERVE
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
Retails at:  $85.00/btl
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Winery Notes: “Black Cherry and cranberry flavors are complimented by caramelized oak and Christmas spices. A bright beam of red plum persists through the finish.“
 
Cabernet Sauvignon 82% | Petit Verdot 10% | Cabernet Franc 5% | Merlot 3%

Le Pich 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon

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LE PICH
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
2015 NAPA VALLEY
 
It feels good to be on the leading edge of a fledgling brand that’s soared into something as special as Le Pich and Purlieu.  We first introduced their inaugural 2009 vintage back in 2012 and we never stopped singing their praises.  As the second label for Purlieu, a rising cult producer whose Cabernets range $95-$200/btl, Le Pich delivers a amazingly high level of quality, without the lofty price tag that often comes with it.  This phenomenal Napa Cab is made by Julien Fayard, who learned his craft at Chateau Lafite Rothschild.  Julien then gained valuable, first-hand experience as Director of Winemaking for Philippe Melka at elite Napa Valley producers like Lail, Gemstone, Hundred Acre, Vineyard 29, and Mastery…
 
Kicking things up a notch or two in terms of quality, the 2015 Le Pich is gorgeously concentrated, dramatic and wonderfully expressive.  Drawing from several celebrated regions throughout Napa Valley, each vineyard and unique micro-climate elevates the final complex blend.  The net result is that Le Pich is one of our best selling brands of all times, for good reason.  I strongly recommend a case… you can thank me later.
 
LE PICH
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
2015 NAPA VALLEY
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From Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate:
Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Le Pich has expressive black and red currants notes with kirsch, spice box, earth and unsmoked tobacco notions. Medium-bodied, soft, supple, open and singing, the palate provides plenty of juicy fruit and a satisfying finish.
92 Points

Customers that would enjoy the Le Pich 2015 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, may also enjoy these two terrific Cabs…
POST PARADE
2014 STRETCH DRIVE
CABERNET SAUVIGNON 
Retails at:  $65.00/btl
Your Price: $59.99/btl 

Stretching the boundaries in just the third vintage, you’ll find this rising-star wine company and soon to be cult-classic producer in the winner’s circle after every race.  The Post Parade wines have gotten more profound with each vintage.  A pacesetter in the under seventy price bracket, Stretch Drive is the second wine produced at Post Parade, and oo
zes with provocative dark berries laced with crushed rock, cocoa and baking spices.  It’s made by Thomas Rivers Brown, whom you may recognize from Schrader, Revana, GTS, Maybach, Gemstone and Outpost…
AMAPOLA CREEK
2014 CABERNET SAUVIGNON
ESTATE, SONOMA VALLEY
Retails at:  $90.00/btl
 
From Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate, “…Containing 7% Petit Verdot, the 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Vineyard has a deep garnet-purple color and youthfully reticent nose, offering glimpses at blackberry and black plum notes over pencil shavings, garrigue, lavender and Mediterranean herbs. Full-bodied and packed with black fruits and earthy flavors, it is built like a brick house with a solid frame of firm, ripe tannins and plenty of freshness, finishing long.” 
 
 
 93-95 Points

Humanitas 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon

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HUMANITAS
2012 CABERNET SAUVIGNON
REID VINEYARD, NAPA VALLEY
 
When we selected the Humanitas Signum as our number one wine in 2017, it sold out before noon… While this surprised some, it didn’t surprise me, because it’s difficult to come up with enough gushing superlatives that accurately describe how I feel about all the Humanitas wines.  While Signum was $100 Cab blend that we sold for $55, at under $40, the 2012 Reid Vineyard Cab is a wine that is a little easier to swallow… Pun intended.  Stunningly concentrated and dangerously hedonistic, the 2012 Reid Vineyard Cab is bursting with authoritative and alluring flavors of sensual dark fruits, chocolate espresso, scorched earth and pipe tobacco.
 
Expertly composed by winemaker Rob Lloyd, former winemaker at Rombauer, this 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon originates from a single vineyard on the North Eastern edge of St Helena.  A blend of 81% Cabernet Sauvignon, enhanced with Cabernet Franc, Petite Verdot and Merlot, the 2012 spent 22 months in oak and like many 2012 Napa Valley Cabs, this wine is really showing great now and should continue to evolve for another 5-7 years.
 
HUMANITAS
2012 CABERNET SAUVIGNON
REID VINEYARD, NAPA VALLEY
Retails at:  $60.00/btl
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Tasting Notes: “The aromatic bouquet blooms with red and black fruits, pipe tobacco, dark chocolate and hints of sun-baked earth. In the glass it is black as a starless night, ringed with rich, hedonistic blackberry, cassis, red berries and cocoa powder.  Though dense, this wine is nimble but with deep, dark black currant, mixed black berries, bing cherry and a touch of sweet vanilla that surrounds your palate in pure joy.  This is another sensational effort from a producer that is quickly becoming one of my favorites.”