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Below is a list of Christine's Top 10 Must-Have Napa Cabernet Sauvignon wines. These wines offer outstanding quality, terrific aging potential and great value for the price point.
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Sequum
Sequum "Four Soil Melange" Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 (Napa Valley, California)
Retail Price: $60.00
Artisan Wine Depot Price: $39.99
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Rank #1 Wine - Imbibe Top 100 Wines of 2009 (2006 vintage)!

Fragrant cedar, cassis, blackberry, allspice and cinnamon are echoed in the elegant, aerodynamically streamlined mouth of
alluring, juicy bright red fruits supported by silky tannins and bright acidity, with a forever-long finish that keeps on pumping out mouth-filling juiciness. All sites are balanced to allow earlier picking from four different outstanding Napa Valley Cabernet terrains:
  • Spring Mountain fruit from Pride Mountain
  • Stag's Leap hillside from Chimney Rock
  • Valley Floor from Caymus in Rutherford
  • Lewelling in St. Helena
Also encompassing the diverse range of drainage, mineral characteristics and structures of Aiken, Bale. Bressa
and Cortina soils.
Keenan Cabernet Sauvignon 30th Anniversary 2006 [375 mL HALF-BOTTLE] (Napa Valley, California) - [WE 92] [RP 90]
Keenan Cabernet Sauvignon 30th Anniversary 2006 [375 mL HALF-BOTTLE] (Napa Valley, California) - [WE 92] [RP 90]
Retail Price: $25.00
CLOSE-OUT PRICE: $14.99
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CASE PRICE = $12.99 per bottle (add 12+ quantity to your basket)
92 Points & "Cellar Selection" - Wine Enthusiast Magazine:
"This is a young, vigorous Cabernet Sauvignon. It’s tannic, in the way of Spring Mountain, and very tightly wound, with a central core of black currants and minerals. Its pedigree is evident throughout, but it’s a wine you want to age before opening. Hold until 2012, and it should provide good drinking for years beyond. — S.H. (5/1/2010)
Moone-Tsai Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 (Napa Valley, California) - [WE 95] [ST 91]
Moone-Tsai Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 (Napa Valley, California) - [WE 95] [ST 91]
Retail Price: $75.00
Artisan Wine Depot Price: $72.99
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CASE PRICE = $69.99 per bottle (add 12+ quantity to your basket)
Rank #39 Top 100 Cellar Selections 2011 & 95 Points - Wine Enthusiast Magazine:
"One sip is all it takes to fall in love with this Cabernet, which contains a little Merlot. It’s rich and lush and authoritative on every level. The texture is soft as velvet, but the tannins are firm, backing up blackberry, cherry, chocolate, cassis, mineral and new oak flavors that are complex and linger long into the spicy finish. Such are the tannins that the wine is likely to age well through 2016, at least." S.H.  (11/1/2011)

 
Provenance
Provenance "Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard" Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 (Napa Valley, California) - [CG 93]
Retail Price: $85.00
Lowest Elsewhere: $70.00
CLOSE-OUT PRICE: $64.99
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1-CASE PRICE = $59.99 per bottle (add 12-23 quantity to your basket)
2-CASE PRICE = $54.99 per bottle (add 24-35 quantity to your basket)
3-CASE PRICE = $49.99 per bottle (add 36-47 quantity to your basket)
4-CASE PRICE = $38.99 per bottle (add 48+ quantity to your basket)
93 Points - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine:
"Somewhat more rugged in its texture than is typical of bottlings from this justifiably famous vineyard, the Provenance version nonetheless does a fine job of capturing both the fruit and the range for which ToKalon has become so renowned. High in curranty and red cherry fruit and possessed of rich oak overlays, this full-bodied, tannic wine demands time in bottle to come into its own and promises to offer lot more with up to a decade of cellaring."
Reynolds Family Winery Stags Leap Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve 2007 (Napa Valley, California) - [WS 96]
Reynolds Family Winery Stags Leap District Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 (Napa Valley, California) - [WE 96]
Retail Price: $90.00
Artisan Wine Depot Price: $82.99
You save $7.01!

CASE PRICE = $79.99 per bottle (add 12+ quantity to your basket)
Rank #10 Top 100 Cellar Selections 2011 & 96 Points - Wine Enthusiast Magazine:
"A big, vital and important Cabernet that deserves a place in the cellar. It hits the mouth with huge tannins that are tight and locked down, yet sweetly ripe. That contradiction persists throughout the fantastically complex blackberry, cherry, currant and mocha flavors. A very fine, superior wine that exemplifies the Stags Leap iron fist in a velvet glove. As delicious as it is, you should hold this Cabernet for a good six years, and it could easily develop for an additional decade."  — S.H.  (6/1/2011)
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars "FAY" Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 (Napa Valley, California) - [RP 92]
Retail Price: $105.00
Artisan Wine Depot Price: $69.99
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CASE PRICE = $65.99 per bottle (add 12+ quantity to your basket)
92 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
"Dark ruby/purple-hued with sweet black currant, spring flower, cedar and subtle earthy notes, the 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon Fay Vineyard Estate is a classic Napa Cabernet with both elegance and complexity. It can be drunk now or cellared for 12-14 years.

Ladera Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 (Napa Valley, California) - [RP 90]
Ladera Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 (Napa Valley, California) - [RP 90]
Retail Price: $39.00
Artisan Wine Depot Price: $29.99
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90 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
"The least expensive effort, and a top value for a Napa Cabernet, is the 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa. A dark ruby/plum-colored blend of 96% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Petit Verdot and Malbec, it offers up notes of plums, cassis and blue fruits, silky tannins, a fleshy, ripe style and not a hard edge to be found. This impressive effort is the type of Cabernet Sauvignon that normally costs 2-3 times the price. Drinkable now, this sleeper of the vintage will age for a decade or more. The highly respected Karen Culler is the winemaker for Ladera, who have produced a trifecta of delicious 2007s." - Robert Parker (Dec 2010)
Crescendo Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 (Napa Valley, California)
Crescendo Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 (Napa Valley, California)
Retail Price: $40.00
CLOSE-OUT PRICE: $19.99
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CASE PRICE = $18.99 per bottle (add 12+ quantity to your basket)
Crescendo Hills Vineyard is a project 20 years in the making.  Their founder, a veteran of the wine industry, had always envisioned one day creating his own wines of the utmost quality.

This ultra-premium Cabernet Sauvignon is in dedication to the rich history of the Napa Valley and the incredible wines of California.