Appy Friday is “in a word: dazzling” per Vinous in their 98 point review.

Ready to be dazzled? Frazzled? Flabbergasted? Awestruck, bemused, AND bewildered? All the above? This’ll do it.

100% Oakville Ranch fruit from the impeccable 2021 vintage. This price is a STEAL for the quality you’re getting in a Favia La Magdalena. It’s always Agent Noir’s absolute favorite Favia in the lineup. If you have yet to experience one, they are life-affirming wines.

Bennifer, KimYe, Brangelina… so many power couples have come and gone. But this Napa winemaking power couple is still together, and in TOP form!

Andy Erikson and Annie Favia have SO much street cred, it’s difficult to capture the expanse of their efforts in a page. Their combined resume reads like the ultimate cult wine checklist: Screaming Eagle, Harlan, Dalla Valle, Arietta, Mayacamas, Pahlmeyer, Meteor…

Erikson and Favia are Napa’s most sought-after winemaker/viticulturist duo, consistently crafting 98-100-point wines and delivering the goods time-after-time-after-time under their world-class Favia label.

La Magdalena makes Cheval Blanc blush. With Cabernet Franc as the driving half, elegant and perfumed beyond any other example of such blends out there. It’s ethereally creamy, and dangerously plush with layers and layers of red, blue, and black fruits, spices, and minerals galore in the background, springing like 4th of July fireworks that last for an eternity on the finish that does not quit. La Magdalena is one of the hottest names in the Valley; one whiff, and one sip are all it takes to understand why.

A measly 8 barrels were made. Apologies in advance for not making everyone Appy when it’s gone.

98 Points – Vinous “The 2021 La Magdalena is fabulous. Dark, pliant, and super-expressive, the 2021 possesses notable depth from start to finish. Plum, fresh blueberry, mocha, gravel, spice, and leather all meld together in this captivating Cabernet Franc/Cabernet Sauvignon blend from Oakville Ranch. In a word: dazzling. Drink 2026-2036.”