Reviews
Technical Details
- BlendPetit Verdot
- WinemakerJean Hoefliger
- CountryUS
- RegionCalifornia North Coast
- AppellationNapa Valley
- VineyardStagecoach
- Alcohol15.4%
Decades 5 Petit Verdot Stagecoach Vineyard 2016
WAS $86 - NOW $44.95! Jean has made far too many 95-100 point wines to count. This uber-tiny production (2 barrels!) Petit Verdot bottling from Stagecoach vineyard (from the excellent 2016 vintage) is a true rarity and a serious knockout!! Very limited! Yes, 100% Petit Verdot from the vaunted Stagecoach Vineyard adjacent to Prichard Hill, made by none other than French-born Jean Hoefliger (The Debate, Alpha Omega, AXR, Chateau Lynch Bages, many more). Where else would you find a cool, 93+ pointer like this other than your buds in Napa? No worries, we GOT you!
We have about 156 bottles to offer you and that is it. This is DARK, as PV should be, deep and brooding, yet the fruit is surprisingly bright and lavish, or, as the Wine Advocate puts it: “...deep garnet-purple colored and made of 100% Petit Verdot. It opens with notes of red currants, black cherries, fresh black berries and cracked pepper with wafts of dried herbs and yeast extract. Medium to full-bodied, very firm and with great freshness, it has a good, long earthy/savory finish. 50 cases were made.”
Throw this beauty in a blind tasting lineup with $150+ Napa Cabs and prepare to be astonished, this is serious juice worth any Cab lovers attention. We only scored a few cases of this treat. Be one of the few on Earth to own it!