Scusi Operatori, it ain’t your average Thursday around here.

Why? Cause October is, among other things, Italian Heritage Month. Which means, naturally…Italian Store Takeover!

Click here to visit the Store which is freshly stocked with appropriate goodies, from $17 Valpolicella to $170 dry Marsala unlike anything you’ve had. Everything is brimming with accolades and gusto. Particularly this beauty, a truly one of a kind wine, draped in huge scores and rarely seen ANYWHERE. Let alone at near 50% OFF.

So, to celebrate properly, Cru is cranking Mambo Italiano from his office and that can only mean one thing. Well…it can mean several. But today it means it’s time to bring Il Caberlot back for a day.

Remember this?

We called it “the COOLEST wine we have ever offered!” And every bottle vanished. Easily one of the coolest bottles we’ve scored in our decades long history. Over the next couple of years or so, we left no stone unturned for more. To our shock, at almost the same price as before, we sourced a tiny stash of the previous vintage, and it rolls across the palate like Tuscan hillsides.

Caberlot is not a blend - nor a gimmicky name - but a truly unique natural crossing, a ‘love child’ made in the vineyard, if you will, between… you guessed it, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. It’s a little bit of the best qualities of both in one, with a definite 1+1=3 synergy that needs to be experienced to be believed.

Wine Enthusiast bestowed it with 98 points and a poetic review that says it all: “Once in a rare while you meet someone new but it feels as though you’ve known them your whole life - you are at once totally at ease in their company and simultaneously flushed with an excitement, even a desperation to tell this person who will truly understand and appreciate you everything you’ve ever wanted to share with them. That’s what Il Caberlot 2020 tastes like.”

Since the inaugural 1988 vintage, only made in a few thousand magnums (until 2016, when they added a few cases of 750s, as in individually HAND NUMBERED bottles they call demi-magnums), it’s been one of the least heard of, due to its tiny production, yet most sought-after cult Super Tuscans ever.

Here is the full backstory in vivid detail. SECURE YOUR BOTTLES FIRST before reading because we were allocated only 10 cases (minus what we’ve been drinking!)

98 Points, Cellar Selection – Wine Enthusiast “Once in a rare while you meet someone new but it feels as though you’ve known them your whole life - you are at once totally at ease in their company and simultaneously flushed with an excitement, even a desperation to tell this person who will truly understand and appreciate you everything you’ve ever wanted to share with them. That’s what Il Caberlot 2020 tastes like.”

97 Points – Wine Spectator “Full, rich and elegant, featuring black currant, black cherry, violet, iron, cedar and tobacco aromas and flavors. Boasts purity, finesse, terrific balance, and a long, palate-staining aftertaste. This red is drinkable now yet should be even better in a year or two. 100% Caberlot. Best from 2026 through 2045. 620 cases made, 120 cases imported.”

96 Points – Falstaff “Bright ruby red. On the nose initially of mint chocolate, ripe blackberries, dried rose petals, plus cold smoke and cold stone, some leather and pepper in the echo. And substantial on the palate, with a delicately creamy body, punchy, compact, comes in many layers. In the final, still some young tannin, salty and with a very long echo.”