Lot 948 | 2018 Napa Valley
Cabernet Sauvignon
From the bountiful 2018 Napa harvest comes this benchmark $40 Black Label Napa Cabernet, which drinks like a $140 red from the foothills of the Vaca Mountains, home to Napa’s iconic wineries.
From the bountiful 2018 Napa harvest comes this benchmark $40 Black Label Napa Cabernet, which drinks like a $140 red from the foothills of the Vaca Mountains, home to Napa’s iconic wineries.
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The tasting notes on this wine are incredible. Brambly red and blackberry fruits, toasty fennel, graphite, and cedarwood. Almost buoyant, the tannins are featherweight with a satiny-smooth texture. Tobacco nuances are lifted by river stone minerality. The subtlest notes of vanilla and baking spices round out the finish. Is it a sleeper wine? Sure is. So stock up and enjoy some this Fall, next Fall, and the next Fall, etc… you won’t be disappointed!
- Vintage
- 2018
- Appellation
- Napa Valley
- Grape
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Alcohol by Volume
- 14.80%
- Cases Produced
- 624
- Drink/hold
- Now through 2030 or beyond
- Release Email
CHW Confidential
We’ve gotta cut right to the chase with our black label release - Lot 948 2018 Napa Valley Cabernet – it’s got everything you want from a Napa Cab: pedigree, vintage, aged in bottle, and the ability to cellar this wine still for years to come. This wine hails from the 2018 vintage (which critics have praised as one of the best in the last 40 years). But listen: Forget the critics. Forget that the source winery is an iconic estate founded in 1995. Forget that they sourced grapes from vineyards near $200+ Peter Michael Winery in Knights Valley or the Rutherford Hills above Michelin-starred Auberge du Soleil.
Just pull the cork, pour into a big Bordeaux wine glass, swirl, and stick your nose in the glass—it’s immediately ravishing, elegant, and exceptional. It reminds us of drinking triple-digit icon wines from estates in the western-facing hills of the Vaca Mountains above Rutherford and Oakville (we’re talking Hall and Alpha Omega territory!). Still, this isn’t an overblown, super heavy, inky-rich Napa Cabernet. Lot 948 is all about understated elegance, which is exactly what we’d expect from the source winery. It’s wild that we got our hands on this one. We highly recommend decanting Lot 948 because it will be tight after opening, but with some air—wow.