Brannan Wines Cabernet Sauvignon Calistoga Napa Valley 2022
California · Napa Valley · Cabernet Sauvignon · red
About this wine
Too late on the Erikson & Caradin, but we have a fantastic consolation prize in store for you today – Brannan’s sexy Calistoga Cab for nearly 60% off with 93 POINTS and best PRICE anywhere (you should expect nothing less from the best place to buy wine online)! You’ve begged, we delivered…BRANNAN’s Calistoga Cab is here! You simply can’t talk Napa history without tipping the cap to Sam Brannan…and this nearly 60% OFF stunner of a 100% Cabernet Sauvignon is straight FIRE!!! Brand new 93 POINT score, from a hot new producer up in Calistoga – who scored some of their epic white blend from a few months back? Get ready to FLIP, Cabernet people! Colossal no-brainer time, for as long as we have it – all at this KILLER UNDER $40 price. Old vines, lovingly reared, carefully harvested, and crafted with the sort of precision usually reserved for Swiss watchmakers. Sourced from a selection of fantastic vineyards throughout Calistoga, the wine leaps and saunters from the glass with ripe mulberries, red cherries, and you know those tiny little purple plums that are always the first to ripen? Those. (I still haven’t forgiven my neighbor for cutting down that tree!) Anywho…add in some candied roses, lavender, cedar, clove, blueberry…bright and old school, yet with this luxuriously silky texture that sets my heart a flutter! Bordeaux-esque graphite, some bay laurel, and earthy mintiness too…but not lean or green heavy…just Goldilocks perfect balance. It may not feel much like spring is ever going to arrive – but once it gets here – I’m STOKED to have a handful of this stacked up in my office’s wine cubby. (Pro-tip: all offices – especially those for content creatives should have one.) The wine has this classic California bearing of yesteryear – think 70s Mayacamas, or even that classic eucalyptus note evocative of Heitz’s Martha’s Vineyard wines from 50 years ago. You don’t see much cabernet sauvignon made like this in Napa these days – but the tide is RISING! I said nearly 60% OFF, right? Incredibly tiny micro-production here, folks – and one you’ll be hard pressed to find anywhere else! $95 at the winery – or UNDER $40 from us…today. This is a 93 POINT Napa Cab to load up on while the getting’s good! While it lasts!!! ** Sam Brannan not only founded the town of Calistoga, he incited the Gold Rush in 1849 with his famous “Gold, gold, gold!” headline in California’s first newspaper. He made his fortune with mercantile shops selling goods to miners, and then after the rush, founded Napa’s first hot springs resort to get the tourists to stick around a wee bit longer. **
Wine details
- Producer
- Brannan
- Vintage
- 2022
- Region
- California
- Appellation
- Napa Valley
- Varietal
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Color
- red
- Winemaker
- Seth Cripe
- Alcohol
- 13.5
- Last Bottle price
- $39
- Retail price (estimate)
- $95
- Critic score
- 93 — Decanter