IT’S MINER MONDAY, YOU LUCKY OPS!

Those who scooped up the library Store Takeover selections over a month ago and pulled the corks to witness the bounty we landed that day, today is one final chance to load up on what remains from that epic stash… here in the Store just for the day!

AND we celebrate Miner’s return with a vintage of The Oracle never offered before.

Wine Spectator is right, “given Miner’s winemaking history in Napa Valley, the excellence of his wines should come as no surprise.” Seeing this $170 pinnacle of their production at this price is a shocker, though we must say.

The Oracle reminds us of some of our greatest hits ever, like Chimney Rock’s Elevage or Clos Pegase’s Hommage. One of those flagships with INSANE pricing that strained our servers with overwhelming demand. Mind you, the library direct price is worth what you get here. Our price is pure DEBAUCHERY.

100% Stagecoach Vineyard. Yep, that infamous site sandwiched between Pritchard Hill and Atlas Peak. The one where many a $250+ cult Cab was born. Just look to Alpha Omega, Pott, The Debate, Paul Hobbs, Mark Herold… the list goes on.

With Cabernet Sauvignon always driving the blend (55% in 2015), the Oracle adapts to each vintage. Varying proportions of Merlot (27%), Cabernet Franc (13%), Petit Verdot (3%), and Malbec (2%) join in one fine-tuned example showcasing the best representation of this rugged mountain source. Vinified at the Oakville home base, with 60% seeing the best new French barrels money can buy for 22 months.

Named to celebrate the family’s legacy of a ‘small’ conglomerate you may have heard of. Before Oracle, Dave Miner’s uncle owned the famous Oakville Ranch, and sadly passed away at a young age. But before he left, he asked Dave to take over. Oakville Ranch owned the property that Miner is on and was using it as a custom crush. When Dave took over, he decided to go all in on Miner Family and transformed it into a state-of-the-art winery that remains a fixture today on the Silverado Trail.

Crafted by master winemaker Gary Brookman at the helm here from 1997 through his retirement in 2022, who also took over Grace Family Vineyards from Heidi Barrett from 2001 through 2014. With his own Brookman project, Gary is one of those lesser-known cult winemakers whose longer stints produced many blue-chip quality wines, year in year out.

Such reliable winemaking, from a family-owned winery, has been cellared perfectly in their impeccable caves for a decade. And now it’s released into the wild, heading to your doorstep for the remainder of its (long) life.

While the press almost completely skipped this beauty back in the day, there was an ‘outstanding’ Wine Spectator review six years ago claiming it was “maturing, with sage and sassafras notes permeating the core of steeped plum and loganberry fruit… mesquite and cedar details check in on the finish for added range.” Drinks like a First Growth 2015 from the Médoc to be honest, but those would cost you 10-20x more than this one. Even back then, Wine Spectator summed up that it “shows lots of character,” but if they revisited it today, it would have been A LOT MORE character!

We don’t need a crystal ball to know one thing, though. This beauty won’t last the day.