2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate

Wine Details
Producer

Vineyard 29

Place of Origin

United States

St. Helena

Napa

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

98% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Petit Verdot

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Drinking Window

2024 - 2035

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This is a stellar set of wines from proprietor Chuck McMinn, winemaker Keith Emerson and consulting winemaker Philippe Melka. Vineyard 29 works with two properties, the Vineyard 29 Estate and Aida, both in the northern sector of St. Helena. The wines are made in a style that prizes flamboyance and textural richness.

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Proprietor Chuck McMinn makes some of the richest and most unctuous Cabernets in Napa Valley. The Cru Cabernet is a reliably outstanding value. I find the dual flagship Aida and 29 Estate Cabernets harder to understand. Winemaker Philippe Melka goes for a super-ripe and heavily extracted style that offers considerable immediacy. But these sites have the potential to do something more, especially 29 Estate, which sits on a gently sloping hillside in the northern sector of St. Helena that is also home to Colgin, Grace, Bure and others. Readers who like big, chocolaty Napa Cabernets will find much to like in this range.