Yount Ridge Red Wine Sunshine Valley Vineyards Oak Knoll District Napa Valley 2022
California · Napa Valley · Proprietary Blends · red
About this wine
95 POINTS! Over $100 off! Who’s ready for a NEW single-vineyard Napa Cab blend from the rockstar that is Jean Hoefliger?!?! Yount Ridge is officially back and better than ever! Take THAT, Monday morning! Huh-to-the-ZAH, my peeps – I’m sauntering in through the warehouse like a 1.7 BILLION dollar jackpot winner, dripping with bling, cruising in my new hoopty, with an entourage that would make Ari Gold jealous. Ok…that’s not even the slightest bit true. But man, a boy can dream, can’t he? What is true is that Yount Ridge is 100% better than ever. No cap, just facts. 59% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Malbec, 16% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Petit Verdot combine like the Planeteers on Saturday mornings in the 90s – and the result is every bit as thrilling! (Those of you screaming “Captain Planet” are my peeps, and there will always be a couch with your name on it in Napa.) Anywho, this 95-point BEAST is impenetrably dark, and absolutely jam-packed with chocolate truffles, kirsch, cassis, and a medley of toasty, nutty, and spicy characters. Soul-filling and warm, yet still brooding and mysterious – this big baddie struts around like it’s bedecked head-to-toe in black leather and came riding a Harley – but then proceeds to break out a children’s book and read to kindergartners. The vineyard sits on this stunningly gorgeous alluvial fan on the northernmost edge of Oak Knoll, a cooler Napa climate that allows for LONG hangtime on the vine, and plenty of inky color and concentration. Alpha Omega’s bottling from the same vineyard has long since broken the $150 mark, which is also where the Yount Ridge folks have this priced at the winery. To have it HERE, TODAY, at over $100 LESS – welp, I’m straight up flabbergasted! 95 POINTS, people! Under $50 for a Napa Cab blend of this pedigree is straight up EPIC, people. Grab enough to last, ‘cause there is barely enough to go ‘round!!!
Wine details
- Producer
- Yount
- Vintage
- 2022
- Region
- California
- Appellation
- Napa Valley
- Varietal
- Proprietary Blends
- Blend
- 59% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Malbec, 16% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot
- Color
- red
- Winemaker
- Jean Hoeflinger
- Last Bottle price
- $49
- Retail price (estimate)
- $150
- CellarTracker score
- 92 (2 reviews)
- Critic score
- 95 — Decanter