Mystery Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Oakville 2022

It’s MYSTERY time! Can you guess this 96-point flagship Oakville Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon from a massively celebrated, family-run Napa Valley estate? We don’t have much, and for under $100 (compared to the $190 winery price), I have a feeling the bottles we do have won’t be here long.

This iconic estate has been crafting Cabernet Sauvignon in the heart of Napa Valley since the early 1980s, helping shape the modern era of powerhouse Oakville Cab. Their Reserve bottling is the crown jewel, made from only the top barrels and harvested from their most precious estate vineyard.

The 2022 vintage brings drama in all the right ways: concentration, structure, swagger. Grown on the property’s best plots in Oakville’s famed gravelly loam soils and aged for 22 months in 100% new French oak, the wine is a blend of 95% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Merlot, and 2% Petit Verdot. It gallops from the glass with juicy blackberry, black cherry, and cassis, backed by rich, frothy espresso, graphite, toasted cedar, and myriad warm spices pulled from your baking cabinet. The tannins are firm, yet polished, and the finish lingers on, and on, and on.

Ready for a few more clues, wine sleuths?

- This winery achieved California’s FIRST-ever 100-point score back in 1985.

- The label was started by the guy who invented Atari game consoles.
Its Reserve Cabernet is pulled solely from the family’s best land, a roughly 12-acre Reserve Vineyard, which has an unusually high volume of chert (hard sedimentary rock made of quartz crystals and fossils).

- The second generation now carries the torch, farming their prized estate vineyards in Oakville.

We only have a smattering of cases available, and they won’t last long. If you figured out our puzzle, then you KNOW how insane of a deal this is... and if not, you’ll soon find out once your bottle/s arrive at your doorstep. Free shipping on two or more... go get ‘em, tiger!

PAIRING IDEAS: Go big. Reverse-seared ribeye, flake sea salt, cracked pepper. Add rosemary potatoes and charred broccolini to complete your breathtakingly good menu.