Faust Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2022
Coming off their #4 Wine of the Year placement on Wine Spectator’s 2024 Top 100 list, this is one of the best values in Napa and now everyone knows it. I mean it’s kind of hard to miss when you have a winemaking team of Michel Rolland, Charles Thomas, Andy Erickson and David Jelenik. Of course, with the firepower behind this, you can expect this to be one of the very best best quality-to-price ratios of the vintage. This is a full-bodied a racy mix of Coombsville and Atlas Peak fruit that gels so well and combines to be a big, fruit-forward Cabernet. At this price, it’s simply a must-have – there’s nothing else like it in this category.
Original price was: $65.00.$50.00Current price is: $50.00.
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**Soon to be Rated** Last Year’s Ratings:
95 Points, James Suckling
Inviting aromas of ripe blackcurrants and blackberries as well as crushed walnuts, cedar and bark. Full-bodied, creamy and structured with firm, polished tannins. Balanced and even with a lingering finish.
94 Points, Wine Spectator
Packed and broad in feel, with a ganache note draped over black currant, blackberry and steeped cherry. Licorice root and alder smoke flavors check in on the finish as the fruit pumps through, ending with a flash of violet. Hard to resist now, but this has some development ahead. Drink now through 2036.
93 Points, Wine Enthusiast
Focused on cabernet from the Faust estate in Coombsville, this includes fruit from the Huneeus family’s vineyards in Yountville and Oak Knoll, all relatively cool districts that combine in a brisk, red-fruited cabernet with cherry freshness. A bright young thing with a lot to say, it tastes like just-picked fruit, its spicy tannins supple and gracious, cool and lasting.
For years now, we’ve been leaning hard on the winemaking team of Michel Rolland, Charles Thomas, Andy Erickson and David Jelenik. First, we offered Leviathan. Then, we had a rare allocation of Quintessa. Both at exceptional prices. But those offers pale in comparison to today’s final act, a two-for-one offer of “Baby Quintessa”, from project Faust, priced to be scooped up by the case. Don’t miss it.
Similar to the team at Quintessa (Michel Rolland/Andy Erickson) minus Rebekah Wineburg but with Charles Thomas (Opus One) and David Jelinek (Copain/Prisoner/Groth). The vineyard source out of this world – a little slice of heaven on the foothills of Atlas Peak in Coombsville. The wine is aged and bottled at Quintessa’s state-of-the-art winemaking facility.
Both have all the vineyard pedigree and winemaking prowess of Quintessa. They always receive the same big scores and positive press as their big name brother, but at prices that Napa rarely sees anymore for wines of this caliber.
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