Lot 619
2024 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

$100+/bottle under the original label

Lot 619 is a magnificent Cabernet Sauvignon with a light touch of Cab Franc. Oakville isn’t printed on the label, but the moment this wine hits your palate, you know. Sourced from a premier site in the heart of the valley with an exquisite mountain fruit addition to elevate the wine to gorgeous heights, this is a textbook 2024 offering – powerful, dynamic, and already drinkable in its youth. Big, powerful Napa juice with complementary inputs to match? We weren’t ever going to let this one slip through our fingers.

Concentrated on the pour, aromas of cassis and blackberry layered over fresh-sliced dark cherry rise from the glass, with accents of currant, fresh bay leaf, and garden sage adding savory complexity. The palate is impeccably framed: black cherry, tobacco, and garden herbs weave through toasted spice, vanilla, and mocha amidst high-toned acidity and plentiful, grippy tannins. Uplifted vanilla and baking spice command a long finish in its youth, though a bit of air reveals violets, vanilla blossoms, and cassis persisting across a seemingly endless close. A wine that begs for the next sip.