“This is another brilliant wine from this estate.” – Jeb Dunnuck

Isn’t that always the case with this wine? 100% yes.

Can we give you more clues? Sadly, no.

This beacon of Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux blends DEFINES a region. Calling it a Cabernet is like calling a Lamborghini a car. Technically accurate. But entirely beside the point. The target audience for a Lambo knows it’s so much more than a car. Just like the target demo for this wine - they know it’s anything but a regular Cabernet.

If the finest California Cabs are on your radar, you have likely had this wine. Never have we seen one score under the 97-100 range. Such is the case here with a near-perfect 98. Once you’re HOLDING a bottle of this in your hands, you KNOW you’re among the royalty. You know at that moment that the lucky people joining you for the experience are in for a treat. In this rough journey called life, this is the kind of bottle that transports you into another plane of existence. This is 100% pure Cabernet hedonism, captured in a bottle.

In order to get this wine to you at the BEST PRICE you’ll ever find anywhere we had to swear to a level of secrecy that makes Scotland Yard look like kindergarten. We’re just blabbering here to make sure we don’t give the identity away, so that we remain safe at HQ. It’s a sad reality that when the word gets out about Wine Spies having THAT wine for THAT much, certain competitors make a point to retaliate. It could get bloody out there if we had a Classified that was easy to decipher.

Black as night in the core, glowing vivaciously with a tight purple-ruby rim. The nose belongs in Sephora, where they keep the most dizzying (and dizzyingly expensive) perfumes under lock and key. Dunnuck found, in no particular order, sweet violets, oak spices, cigar box, and crème de cassis in there; our sniffers found those and more. One sip opens the salivary floodgates, as cherries red and black, deep, dark chocolate truffles, and oozing blackberry jam glide across your senses. The seemingly endless, seamless finish reminds you that the bottle will end soon, and that life is too short to own any less than a case.

You’re welcome…

98 Points – Jeb Dunnuck Full review redacted to protect the innocent.