California Wine Advisors

Opaque purple in the glass, the Turnbull Reserve 2021 offers an alluring bouquet loaded with black cherry, spice box, and rich blackberry. The sumptuous palate builds on these with blueberry, cedar, and hints of Montecristo cigar in a gorgeous, mouthcoating fashion. This is a full-throttle Cab winner and is best after decanting (if popping the...

Coming from four of the top Cabernet sites in Napa, the 2018 Vice Versa is a triumph. This hedonistic Cabernet experience launches with dark chocolate brownie, vanilla bean and black cherry. Voluptuous waves of black currant, pipe tobacco, baking spice, and a velvetty smooth mouthfeel culminate in was is easily a 45 second finish. Once...

A delicious game-changer for this under-the-radar winery, our first sample of the new 100% Cabernet by Zeitgeist features a silky smooth texture and sublime notes of currant, raspberry, black cherry, and plum with intriguing notes of espresso bean and creamy caramel. An impressive debut effort, the bold flavors are deftly balanced with plush tannins and...

The deep garnet-purple colored 2018 Accendo Laurea Cabernet Sauvignon delivers expressive notes of blueberries, preserved plums and chocolate-covered cherries with hints of baking spices, cigar box and graham crackers on the finish. Full-bodied with a firm frame of ripe, grainy tannins and a refreshing line, it has a fantastic core of expressive fruit, creamy vanilla...

Another majestic beauty from Napa’s widely acclaimed 2019 vintage, the 2019 Addax Cabernet is a blend of coveted vineyard sources, traditionally double the price when bottled separately. This gem displays a silky texture, gorgeous fruit and hints of milk chocolate and baking spices on the prodigious finish. The glorious palate includes minty tobacco, black cherry,...

As we approach one decade of cellar time, Aloft’s new 2013 Cabernet continues to absolutely over-deliver at every level plus promises continued enjoyment for at least another five years! This hidden gem offers an ultra-velvety texture, graceful dark fruit and loads of spices that are now well integrated on the palate to include alluring dark...

Adversity’s Sage Ridge vineyard Cabernet is an ULTRA-flashy new discovery that impresses with a bounty of sultry dark fruit flavors and roasted herbs such as tarragon and, well ‘sage.’ The deeply alluring mid-palate offers a luxuriously rich experience featuring a juicy plums, blackberries, cedar, exotic spices, graphite and notes of Cohiba. This is a supremely...

The 2014 Barrett & Barrett is deep dark ruby in color, almost black in the glass. It shows intense deep aromatics of concentrated blackberry, currants, sage and hints of caramel coupled with cocoa powder and allspice. After a decade of library time, this treasured red displays a seamless balance of flavor and structure: everything needed...

This supremely silky new discovery waltzes out of the glass with a bevy of enticing fruit flavors and a certain ‘X’ factor that demanded our attention. Voluptuous layers for dark fruit (blueberry, blackberry, plums) are impeccably balanced with notes of graphite, espresso bean tobacco leaf and mouth-coating tannins on the seductive finish. Enjoy this vibrant,...

This Bernard Magrez 2016 is one of the purest expressions of Napa’s best undiscovered gems today. Immensely hedonistic and satisfying on many levels. This flashy new release shows superb concentration and purity of dark fruit deftly melded together with exotic notes of mocha, espresso, and spicy oak. The palate, supported by a velvety smooth structure...