Cornerstone Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Benchlands Napa Valley 2019
California · Napa Valley · Proprietary Blends · red
About this wine
Cornerstone’s Benchlands Cabernet is a Last Bottle go-to – and for great reason. Incredible consistency, unsurpassed value...and hey, 93 POINTS for under $30 on Napa Cab sure doesn’t hurt! It seems like FOREVER now that we’ve been sharing CORNERSTONE with you, noble citizens of the Last Bottle universe. Easily one of the most re-requested producers in our history – so get those reading glasses on, and fire up those fast-twitch finger muscles…’cause CORNERSTONE IS BACK!!! Oh, happy day! Gobsmacked. Speechless. Struck dumb. 2019 NAPA CAB, from choice vineyards in the heart of Napa’s verdant valley floor – Coombsville, Saint Helena, Rutherford, and Oakville, OH MY! Over 65% OFF?! This is so completely off the chain, at such a world-beating price – I’ll be shocked if we don’t sell out in a single go. The fully rich opulence of Napa’s valley floor – with expressive notes of blackberries and black plums, with chocolate-y, molten magma goodness, and toasty oak, crushed gravel, cinnamon, and heady cassis. It rocks, it rolls, it pumps and thumps like the mosh-pit at a headbanger’s ball. And…you’re invited! Kari Auringer has crafted these EPIC, woefully under-appreciated wines for almost a decade – even longer, in fact – if you count her time as assistant winemaker here under two of Napa’s all-time greats! The one and only Celia Welch (Scarecrow, Corra, and dozens more) AND Charles Thomas (Cardinale, Lokoya, Mondavi Reserve, Quintessa, and many more)...talk about an education that money just can’t buy!!! If you’ve been Thanos snapped out of existence for the past five years, let me catch you up…the 2019 vintage is FANTASTIC – supple, pretty, expansive, and gloriously approachable – meaning you get all the pleasure that Napa Cab can give, without having to wait a decade for those cheek-ripping tannins to settle out. Green light ready and more impressive than Week One Jayden Daniels…for WHAT price?! Just $29?! YES!!! You can’t find this ANYWHERE else – and even if you could go back in time and buy it direct from the source – it’d still be a full 65+% more! We got all that we could…now the chance is yours! While it lasts!
Wine details
- Producer
- Cornerstone
- Vintage
- 2019
- Region
- California
- Appellation
- Napa Valley
- Varietal
- Proprietary Blends
- Blend
- 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc
- Color
- red
- Winemaker
- Kari Auringer
- Last Bottle price
- $29
- Retail price (estimate)
- $85
- Wine-Searcher average
- $83
- CellarTracker score
- 91.9 (10 reviews)
- Critic score
- 93 — James Suckling