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2021 Lail - Cabernet Sauvignon Napa J. Daniel Cuvee (750ml)
Lail
SKU 98434

2021 Lail - Cabernet Sauvignon Napa J. Daniel Cuvee (750ml)

$315.00 - $315.00
$315.00
$315.00 - $315.00
$315.00
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Lail Vineyards was founded by Robin Lail, a fourth-generation Napa Valley vintner whose family history traces back to Gustave Niebaum, founder of the historic Inglenook estate, and to John Daniel Jr., the relative for whom this flagship wine is named. Winemakers Philippe Melka and Maayan Koschitzky now craft the wines, carrying forward a family winemaking legacy that stretches back over a century in Napa Valley.

J. Daniel Cuvée is a Bordeaux-style blend built entirely from Cabernet Sauvignon sourced across several of Napa's most prized sites: the Lail family's own Mole Hill Vineyard on Howell Mountain, Vine Hill Ranch in Oakville, Heimark Vineyard in Calistoga, and Steltzner Vineyard in Stags Leap. The wine is aged 20 months in French oak, three-quarters of it new, a regimen that builds structure while letting each vineyard's character come through in the final blend.

The wine opens with raspberry and black cherry tinged with dark chocolate, moving into blackberry preserves and boysenberry on the palate. Full-bodied and richly concentrated, its texture glides between silky and velvety toward a long, dusty finish with a hint of licorice. Pair it with herb-crusted rack of lamb, dry-aged ribeye, or a dark chocolate torte.

100 Points
"Lail's 2021 J. Daniel Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon blends lots from several high-end vineyards, including Heimark (Calistoga), Vine Hill Ranch (Oakville) and Steltzner (Stags Leap), plus Lail's own Mole Hill on Howell Mountain. It's an exciting wine, starting from the pulse-quickening aromas of raspberries and black cherries tinged with dark chocolate. In the mouth, this full-bodied beauty is richly concentrated, with a sensuous texture somewhere between silky and velvety, while the softly dusty finish shows terrific length and a spine-tingling hint of licorice. To reduce this wine to deceptively simple yet hard-to-pin-down words, it's complex, harmonious and elegant, yet it's enough of its place that it could only come from Napa Valley."
—Joe Czerwinski-Wine Advocate
Appellation: Napa
Vintage: 2021
Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon
Region: California
Country: USA
Bottle Size: 750ml
Producer: Lail
Lail

Lail Vineyards was founded by Robin Lail, a fourth-generation Napa Valley vintner whose family history traces back to Gustave Niebaum, founder of the historic Inglenook estate, and to John Daniel Jr., the relative for whom this flagship wine is named. Winemakers Philippe Melka and Maayan Koschitzky now craft the wines, carrying forward a family winemaking legacy that stretches back over a century in Napa Valley.

J. Daniel Cuvée is a Bordeaux-style blend built entirely from Cabernet Sauvignon sourced across several of Napa's most prized sites: the Lail family's own Mole Hill Vineyard on Howell Mountain, Vine Hill Ranch in Oakville, Heimark Vineyard in Calistoga, and Steltzner Vineyard in Stags Leap. The wine is aged 20 months in French oak, three-quarters of it new, a regimen that builds structure while letting each vineyard's character come through in the final blend.

The wine opens with raspberry and black cherry tinged with dark chocolate, moving into blackberry preserves and boysenberry on the palate. Full-bodied and richly concentrated, its texture glides between silky and velvety toward a long, dusty finish with a hint of licorice. Pair it with herb-crusted rack of lamb, dry-aged ribeye, or a dark chocolate torte.

100 Points
"Lail's 2021 J. Daniel Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon blends lots from several high-end vineyards, including Heimark (Calistoga), Vine Hill Ranch (Oakville) and Steltzner (Stags Leap), plus Lail's own Mole Hill on Howell Mountain. It's an exciting wine, starting from the pulse-quickening aromas of raspberries and black cherries tinged with dark chocolate. In the mouth, this full-bodied beauty is richly concentrated, with a sensuous texture somewhere between silky and velvety, while the softly dusty finish shows terrific length and a spine-tingling hint of licorice. To reduce this wine to deceptively simple yet hard-to-pin-down words, it's complex, harmonious and elegant, yet it's enough of its place that it could only come from Napa Valley."
—Joe Czerwinski-Wine Advocate
Appellation: Napa
Vintage: 2021
Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon
Region: California
Country: USA
Bottle Size: 750ml
Producer: Lail