Verdon Estate Proprietary Red Reserve No. 3 Napa Valley 2023
California · Napa Valley · Propietary Blend · red
About this wine
Five generations of grape growing – from France to Napa – culminating in this EPIC new release! 95 POINT Cab Blend at a dizzying price! Wooohoooo! A MAGICAL new Napa release from VERDON ESTATE! If you like them Richy Rich rich, with plump and purring bushels of black cherry, and plums, and black currants, with heady and luscious spice accents of mocha, and dark chocolate, all framed with a fine and grippy pencil lead structure, and uplifted by entrancing floral notes of violets and hibiscus – well, then!!! Have I got something SPECIAL for you! 95 POINTS and just criminally low priced at just TWENTY-NINE DOLLARS! Let’s go! Hmm, did I forget to mention something? Oh yeah…ROBERT SMITH! No – not The Cure lead emo-goth – I’m talking the POWERHOUSE winemaker with stops at some of Napa’s culty best – Quixote, Quintessa, Seven Stones, Krupp Brothers, Covert Estate, and more! He’s been Philippe Melka’s right hand on TONS of top projects, and this blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Zinfandel, and 20% Merlot perfectly expresses that sort of pedigree. The swelling LEGEND of the 2023 vintage grows a bit fuller here, leading to fully-ripe, downright decadent flavors of fruit and barrel – yet somehow perfectly maintaining a lively freshness, and well-integrated minerality – keeping this balanced and poised from cork *POP* to last sip. Which – at Last Bottle HQ on a Friday afternoon…amounted to a total of just SEVEN minutes. I got my glass – and now a six-pack coming down to SoCal for the weekend! We barely have enough of this to go ‘round – and 95 POINT/67% OFF data blips typically spell for a short and frenzied run to the SELL OUT zone. Grab yours while we got it!
Wine details
- Producer
- Verdon
- Vintage
- 2023
- Region
- California
- Appellation
- Napa Valley
- Varietal
- Propietary Blend
- Blend
- 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Zinfandel, and 20% Merlot
- Color
- red
- Winemaker
- Robert Smith
- Alcohol
- 14.5
- Last Bottle price
- $29
- Retail price (estimate)
- $88
- Critic score
- 95 — Tasting Panel












