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Eisele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Altagracia 2016  - First Bottle

Reviews

96 James Suckling -
Lots of violets and dark berries with sweet underbrush and fresh mushrooms, following through to a medium to full body, soft and silky tannins and a succulent and refined finish. It remains supple and beautiful. Hard not to drink now. Better after 2023.
95 Robert Parkers Wine Advocate -
The Altagracia is produced almost exclusively from estate fruit this year and was bottled at the end of June 2018. Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Altagracia comes bursting forth with vivacious black cherries, blackberries, wild blueberries and cassis notes with touches of cinnamon stick, cloves, forest floor, violets and dusty earth with a waft of violets. The palate is medium to full-bodied, firm and grainy with loads of iron and mineral accents, finishing long and perfumed.

Technical Details

  • BlendCabernet Sauvignon
  • CountryUS
  • RegionCalifornia North Coast
  • AppellationNapa
  • Alcohol14.8%

Eisele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Altagracia 2016

Cabernet Blends  |  US
JS96, WA95

Too late, we are SOLD OUT!
Altagracia? Well, I tasted it in February and thought at the time, “this is the best Altagracia I have tasted yet”. 2016 is of course an epically superb vintage in Napa, so if you’ve never had this before, this is no doubt the vintage to do it. I loved the 2015 version but the '16 is a big step up in quality and a wine that delivers everything you could want out of top tier Napa cab.

This wine is now made up almost entirely of Eisele Vineyard fruit, and is an absolute blockbuster of a wine. It can stand tow to tow with some the top wines produced in the entire Napa Valley...seriously! Tasted next to the their flagship wine (selling for $550 a bottle) it was the clear winner, at least at this stage. Such a delicious bottle of vino!

About the Producer

In wine, there is nothing so immutable as the land. Vintages offer variation, as do winemakers and proprietors. Mother Nature is capricious, always wanting the last word. But the land is a constant, its geology and composition immovable. At the heart of every great wine is a piece of land like no other.

First planted to vines in the 1880s, Eisele Vineyard sits in the northeast Napa Valley, just east of Calistoga at the base of the Palisades Mountain range. Farmed organically since 1998 and biodynamically since 2000, the site has been principally dedicated to Cabernet Sauvignon for the last fifty years. Beginning with the inaugural release bearing the Eisele name in 1971, this iconic vineyard has received consistent recognition for possessing one of the great terroirs of Napa Valley. The wines invariably express the exceptional depth, elegance and longevity which are hallmarks of the Eisele Vineyard.

The vision of Eisele’s newest steward, the Pinault family (Chateau Latour) is nothing less than to re-embrace the long history of Eisele Vineyard while realizing the full potential of this remarkable estate. Preserving and expanding upon the vineyard’s distinguished legacy in Napa Valley — and among the great winegrowing estates of the world — is both an honor and their aspiration.