Faust The Pact Napa Valley 2021
97 Pts, James Suckling
‘The Pact’ is the small-production flagship bottling from Faust Wines. Always a wine that overdelivers in value, but in Napa’s incredible 2021 vintage, superstar consultant Michel Rolland turned in an absolute beauty. This one is packed with vibrant Coombsville fruit from Atlas Peak giving it a ton of power and torque for sure. It blasts out of the bottle with dark currants and rich black fruits. It’s definitely a big, brooding Cabernet with structure and finely layered grainy tannins. This is one to cellar for sure, but if you don’t mind sneaking a bottle away – it will blow you away already.
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97 Points, James Suckling
So many graphite and pencil shaving aromas here with blue fruits. Slate and tar undertones. Black and red currants. Some ash. Medium-bodied with open grained tannins. So much iron and rust with lead and mussel shell. Then turns to pine cone and cedar. Really complex and flavor intensive. Love to drink it now as a young wine. This evolves all the time.
It’s hard not to love just about everything that comes from Hunneus Wines. First, we got 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.
The winemaking team at Faust is ridiculous. 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 receive the same big scores and press as their big name brother, but at prices that Napa almost never sees anymore for wines of this caliber. And the best part, I’m able to offer these at the best prices anywhere – for as long as they last.
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