The glass explodes with a bowl full of ripe red cherry and jammy red and black fruit.

Spectacularly energetic, it delivers a well-focused fruit profile that suggest top-tier Burgundy gracefully melded together with ripe tropical fruit including white peach, pear, white flowers and hints of grilled pineapple.

The Durrell vineyard is so distinctive, it would certainly be ranked as a Premier Cru if California had such designations.

Textbook has emerged as the gold standard for undiscovered boutique Napa Cabernets that taste like $100 but can be secured for far less.