Baker & Hamilton Vine Hill Ranch Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

Price drops to $99.95 when you purchase 3 or more bottles, and $89.95 on orders of 6 bottles or more! Ground shipping included on orders of 3 bottles or more!

If you know Vine Hill Ranch, you know. After To Kalon, this just might be Oakville’s most historic vineyard. The Phillips family has farmed the site for generations, bottling their own Vine Hill Ranch wine for the first time in 2008. In the incredible 2019 vintage, the flagship took home a perfect 100 points from Decanter...and not for the first time, either! This first release second wine, Baker & Hamilton, from the very same Vine Hill Ranch estate, in the very same vintage, and lept out the gate with 95 POINTS on its first try! At less than half the price of VHR, this cabernet is worth a taste, and the wisest among y’all will be sure to lock in a few bottles! Priced too low to even show here, you’re gonna want some of this!!

The incredibly fresh Baker & Hamilton wine hails from the Phillips family’s beautiful Oakville property on the west side of Oakville, near Dominus ($300), Promontory ($900), Beckstoffer Missouri Hopper (which was part of VHR in the past), and Harlan Estate ($1000+) to name a few. The vineyard’s early stewards were Bob and Alex Phillips, whose dad bought the vineyard in 1959 and made it one of Napa Valley’s unheralded stars. Today, it has reached ELITE status alongside the very best vineyards in all of Napa Valley.

Baker & Hamilton was created with a bit more focus on select retailers and restaurants, made in the same exact way as the $300 VHR, just sourced from the lower and slightly cooler parts of the vineyard. THAT’S A GOOD THING. The wine soars with excellent blue fruit – amazingly lush, full, and delineated, with a vaguely “old school” Napa note of cedar and tobacco...we LOVED it. It’s a STEAL with all this pedigree, too – did we mention the winemaker is Françoise Peschon – a longtime winemaker for Araujo Estate who trained at Château Haut-Brion? Throw in a nod to tenured vineyard master Michael Wolf (Harlan), and you have an absolute can’t miss! Grab a couple of bottles and you won’t regret it! The price drops by a cool $25 per bottle when you grab three – so that’s what I’d suggest! Check that price! Just don’t miss out!

PAIRING IDEAS: Don’t overthink this. Get a killer meat or mushroom pie. Make your mom’s meatloaf. Make meatballs or bolognese or cacio e pepe or a hangar steak. Make a burger. This is young, silky, delicious Napa cab — just do what comes naturally!