Sterling Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Platinum Napa Valley 2016
Oh man, you guys just DESTROYED us the last 2 days. Wow! We are printing and packing as fast as humanly possible, hired a bunch of people, bought a new Nespresso maker, and we're gettin’ all over it! Hope you scored some cool stuff in all the madness of marathon!!
*** We raised an astonishing $72,000 ($1 per order) for the NAPA BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB --- THANK YOU thank you thank you, you guys ROCK! ***
…..and the hits keep coming!! YOU SET ‘EM UP, we’ll knock ‘em down!! You’re not even going to believe this one!
STERLING! One step down from palladium, and you have still one of the rarest metals on earth- PLATINUM. Platinum is Sterling’s “tete de cuvee”, their uber-Reserve, if you will, and in the midst of marathon madness, we took a call, drank a bottle, made a deal...and BOOM, here ya go. Not just any deal….WAY over 50% OFF, with a 94-POINT score!! Let the chaos ensue!
To top off the whipped cream with a cherry, this is from the sensational 2016 vintage here in the sunny Napa Valley. You can taste it --- opulence abounds, with creamy, succulent, sultry fruit and texture, pure black currant, chocolate panna cotta, espresso and good, deep structure. Long and spicy and gut-warmingly delicious. Terrifying, actually, as we drank the whole bottle in mere minutes (there were 5 of us). Needless to say, not a lot of this to go around on this fine Saturday, but GET IT while you can -- did you see that price???! 94 POINTS!
Platinum is a wine designed to bring a singular thought to life: great wines come from great vineyards, and never so much as when the winemaking and winegrowing teams work hand in hand to carefully nurture the finest fruit toward a well-rewarded harvest. In this vintage, Platinum Cabernet exhibits the purity of fruit expression, polished tannins and rich texture that are the essential signature of this rich, full-bodied wine. As the drought subsided fruit was more expressive, showing aromas and flavors of red and dark fruit such as Bing cherry, with notable vanilla essence from the American oak. The wine is well integrated, nicely structured with medium tannins that suggest a possibility for at least some cellaring. Recognizable cabernet highlights such as mocha, cassis and caramel toffee join with white pepper spice, leading to a lingering, lasting impression. A beautiful expression of Napa’s varied growing regions.
Technical Details
Country: United StatesRegion: California
Appellation: Napa Valley
Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon
Winemaker: Harry Hansen
Aging/Cooperage: Aged for 20 months in a combination of 50% French (50% new) and 25% each American and Hungarian oak.
Harvest Date: Began mid-September
Alcohol: 14.90%
PH: 3.84
About The Producer
Harry was raised in Sonoma County. After he graduated from the University of California, Davis, with a master’s degree in enology, he became a winemaker at Gloria Ferrer in Sonoma and Edna Valley Vineyard in San Luis Obispo.
In 2011, just before harvest, Harry joined Sterling Vineyards. “It’s a great privilege to make wine here,” he says. “At Sterling we enjoy unsurpassed vineyard resources, from Diamond Mountain to Rutherford, and our recently renovated, state-of-the-art cellar is the perfect place to blend grapes from these stellar terroirs into wines of intense varietal expression.”
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