‘Reynaldo’s 50th Harvest’? SOLD OUT! Man, that was FAST! But here’s another of their wines you won’t be able to resist…

Attention Napa Cab drinkers, front and center! Seven years of gorgeous bottle age and a TOTAL Overachiever Alert! 🚨🚨 Double whammy with the $20 price tag too! Silky smooth… DAMN that’s tasty… and it’s Napa Valley Cabernet??? Fill the cart, Ops!! We guarantee this is one of those wines where, by the time it lands on your doorstep and you taste it, you’ll regret not buying more!!

Napa Valley on the label. 2019 on the bottle.Vinous sums up that vintage as “…big, bold wines with rich fruit profiles… and prominent, structured tannins.”

First sniff? A FABULOUS nose of black cherry and boysenberry. Then dried fruit, a little leathery development, dried violets, dark chocolate and exotic spices. Medium-bodied, and the tannins? Still there but polished and fine grained now. The palate matches the nose, except we would venture to say there has to be some Rutherford in there, because we did get that signature dust!

Agent Noir’s entire review: “Sooo good!!” Seven years of age have produced a graceful, gorgeous Cabernet.

Still can’t believe it’s over 50% OFF and only $20!!?!

Hard times have hit the wine industry, and sadly Robledo is one of the latest names to go into Chapter 11. 💔 And while that’s more a restructuring than a complete erasure of their existence, it still stings, because Robledo isn’t just a winery.

They’re a true family-run “American Dream” winery, with roots in California’s vineyards going back to the 1940s and a pillar of California’s winemaking history. Part of that history is even sitting in the Smithsonian right now.

There are fewer than a handful of Sonoma wineries we’d buy on name alone, and Robledo has always been on that very short list. Not just because the wines are really good, but because we know the Family traditions and experience of Robledo wines always delivers!

Reynaldo was 16 when he arrived from Michoacán, Mexico, 🇲🇽 in 1968, and the very next day he was working the vines at Christian Brothers in Napa. His father had already worked on American farms as a bracero.

Reynaldo stayed, learned the vineyard inside and out, and became one of wine country’s most respected vine grafters. ✂️ In 1982 he even traveled to Nice to teach his grafting techniques. Yes. In France. 🇫🇷

He bought his first 13 acres in Carneros in 1984. Then he and his family opened the first tasting room founded by former vineyard workers on their own land.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has a permanent exhibition called FOOD: Transforming the American Table. Its wine section tells the story of how America became a wine nation. 🇺🇸

In that section you’ll find a winery notebook and tools from Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars. You’ll also find a chair, a budding box, a budding knife and a black cowboy hat from the Robledo family. The hat is Reynaldo’s. 🤠

Why is it there? The museum’s curators set out to document the Mexican and Mexican American workers who planted, tended and harvested the grapes behind California wine. Their goal was also to show how some of those families went from working the fields to owning the winery. When the exhibition opened, the museum noted Robledo was one of only a handful of Mexican or Latino owned wineries in the state.

Spy Intel: 🕵️ The museum’s wine history project was launched by Warren and Barbara Winiarski from Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars whose Cab beat the French at the 1976 Judgment of Paris. In 2017 that same project brought the Robledos to Washington to share their story at its annual Winemakers Dinner.

🚨 Heads up, Ops. At this price, this overachiever is going to FLY, and what we have is all that’s left. Agent Lees is already stocking up. She guards her expensive bottles like state secrets. (Seriously??? She brings one bottle to share with guests and one for herself, which she opens and hides OUTSIDE. Rainy days are rough.) 😹 But she still wants something seriously good to pour at a big party full of strangers. In her words… “I could and would enjoy this at a party with appetizers or a hanger steak, an art gallery exhibit..whatever and I don’t have to crack open my cherished bottles for people who may not get it. Several bottles in? I’d happily reach for this wine.”🍷

And be sure to check out their Pinot Noir in our Store. It will also go FAST!

So, yeah. No brainer, $20 out the door for this type of tasty! Done..grab 6 or a case!