TRIPLE 97-Pt, "Best in Show" Napa Cab!

97 Points from James Suckling saying:
"The aromas are really pretty, with a floral, currant and blackcurrant quality. Some lavender and hints of fresh spearmint. It’s medium- to full-bodied, and the polished and very refined tannins integrate nicely into the wine."

97 Points from Decanter saying:

Awarded Best in Show at 2024 Decanter World Wine Awards!

"The dry yet measured 2021 season in the Napa Valley has produced some splendid wines, and everyone who tasted this wine was very excited both about the joy of its sensual profile as well as about its ageing potential – though it’s far from forbidding at present. It’s a saturated black red in colour, with melting, yielding black-fruit aromas on the nose (bramble, damson, elderberry). There are flowers, and a box-or privet-like freshness generating lift for those fruits.

"On the palate, the wine is ample and mouthfilling, packed with pure, fresh, floral fruits -- yet suggesting a little exotic spice, too. The diagnostically soft yet ample Napa tannins are much in evidence, both lending the wine seriousness and food-friendliness yet also ensuring that it will endure well in time. That freshness (early evening breezes cooling the Stag’s Leap Palisades, perhaps?), so intrinsic to this wine, will surely last well, too, and perhaps even carry the wine’s beguiling floral perfumes with it through time."

97 Points from Tasting Panel saying:
"Celebrating 50 years of Clos du Val's history on the Hirondelle Estate in the Stags Leap District. proprietor Olav Goelet named this wine for his grandmother, who, in his words, "was always planning for the future." A blend of 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Cabernet Franc, 10% Malbec, 7% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot, it's absolutely luminous. The astonishing mouthfeel is silky and dramatic, revealing fresh boysenberry, vanilla, cassis, crème fraîche, and black-tea tannins as a garden of peony, hibiscus, sweet tobacco, Italian herbs, and dried rose sprouts on the nose and palate. In its youthful glory, Yettalil shows stature and elegance with a wisp of chalky minerality on the graceful finish."