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Mountain-Grown Napa Cab from a 100-Point Winemaker — $49.95

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A powerful 97-point Atlas Peak Cabernet from Acumen’s top estate barrel selection, made by Chappellet’s Phillip Corallo-Titus and offered for less than half its elsewhere price.
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97-Point Atlas Peak Cabernet at $49.95
2021 Acumen "PEAK" Atlas Peak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (Elsewhere $110) ($49.95)
"This is legit mountain-grown Napa Cabernet, from a great vintage, from a top 100-point winemaker, for an absolute steal." — Ryan Woodhouse, K&L Domestic Buyer

This may be one of the biggest deals of the year! We just landed a parcel of 2021 Acumen “Peak” Cabernet at a crazy price, and the wine is phenomenal. The Acumen estate sits high on Atlas Peak, producing intense, powerful, structured Cabernets with real mountain character. The winemaker behind the project is none other than Phillip Corallo-Titus of Chappellet fame. Phillip has decades of experience crafting long-lived, 100-point Cabernets, and his pedigree really shows in this wine.

Atlas Peak sits just south of Pritchard Hill and shares much of the same terroir: elevation, rocky volcanic soils, and an arid climate that forces the vines to produce meager amounts of deeply concentrated fruit. The 2021 Acumen “Peak” is the top barrel selection from the estate, hand-selected for purity, power, and true mountain expression. The wine is inky and potently aromatic, bursting with mulberry, crème de cassis, camphor, graphite, toasty oak spice, and crushed-rock minerality. Full-bodied and brooding, with a dense mid-palate and smoldering dark fruit that carries into a long, structured finish. It’s youthful and hedonistic right now, delivering all the mountain intensity and formidable concentration you’d expect from this site and vintage.

Knowing how well Phillip’s wines age, including Chappellet’s famed Pritchard Hill bottling, I think this has at least 20 years of longevity ahead of it, if not more. This is legit mountain-grown Napa Cabernet, from a great vintage, from a top 100-point winemaker, for an absolute steal.

Ryan Woodhouse, K&L Domestic Buyer


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2021 Acumen "PEAK" Atlas Peak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (Elsewhere $110)

2021 Acumen "PEAK" Atlas Peak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (Elsewhere $110) $49.95

97 points The Wine Independent: "The 2021 Peak Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, with 5% Merlot in the blend, is deep garnet-purple in color. It needs a swirl or two to coax out notes of blackcurrant jelly, black cherries, and mulberries leading to hints of licorice, tar, and crushed rocks. The full-bodied palate is taut with dense, muscular black fruits, supported by firm, grainy tannins and just enough freshness, finishing long and earthy."

100 Points Wine Review Online: "After tasting blind and arriving at a big score, I remember that I have given this particular bottling the big score in two previous vintages — 2015 and 2016 — and right out of the gate, this vintage appears to be in the same rarified air as those two wines. There is so much going on here, and it’s all just starting to show itself through the structured backbone. The Cabernet hallmarks are here, with lively blackberry and cassis, rich oak spice, crushed rock and earthy mineral notes that are an Atlas Peak signature, all fine tuned and beautiful. Dare I say this is a bargain when it comes to high end Napa Valley Cabernet? I do so dare — without reservation. Transcendent wine!"


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