Fine wine is one of the top ten gifts for adults in the United States, and with good reason: a bottle of wine is inextricably linked to the vintage in which it was produced, and because of this, a wine from a significant year is the perfect way to celebrate an important milestone or anniversary. Moreover, a bottle of fine wine is one of the few gifts that will continue to improve after it has been gifted, both in terms of drinkability and monetary value. Estate Wine Brokers is equipped to assist with all of your corporate and holiday gifting needs, from back-vintage bottles that commemorate birth and anniversary years to highly sought-after wines from recent vintages that will reward time in the cellar.
Gift Ideas from Napa Valley
In our opinion, the 2013 Cabernets from Napa Valley possess extremely high levels of quality, prestige, and potential longevity while representing some of the best values in today's marketplace. As such, we strongly recommend these wines for gifting purposes in the 2017 holiday season. Indeed, there has been no shortage of superlatives used to describe the 2013 vintage in Napa Valley - Decanter calls the year "truly historic," critic James Suckling describes the quality of the wines as "hard to believe," and Robert Parker calls 2013 "the finest vintage for Bordeaux varietals I’ve ever tasted in my 37 years of experience in Napa Valley." Estate Wine Brokers is proud to offer a bevy of Cabernets from this exceptional vintage, each with a score of 98 points or better:
Araujo "Eisele Vineyard" Cabernet 2013
99 Points Robert Parker "Beautiful layers of fruit, velvety more noticeable tannin, exquisite purity and an almost endless finish make for a remarkable effort that needs another 5-6 years of cellaring and should keep 30 to 40+ years."
Colgin "Cariad" Red Blend 2013
98 Points Robert Parker "The 2013 Cariad Proprietary Red Wine...shows great intensity, with a slightly more burning ember and scorched earthiness to it, giving it a more Graves-like character...The wine is full-bodied, rich, layered...It should evolve over the course of 30+ years."
Colgin "IX Estate" Red Blend 2013
100 Points Robert Parker "Another perfect wine from Ann Colgin and her winemaking team...An absolutely compelling wine, with notes of lead pencil shavings, spring flowers, blueberry, blackberry and cassis, it has the full smorgasbord of black and blue fruits, wonderfully integrated, toasty oak, acidity and tannin, a floral note that is unmistakable, and great richness, density and purity. It is an utterly exceptional wine and a tribute to not only a great vineyard, but impeccable winemaking and upbringing. It should drink well for 30+ years as well."
Hall Wines "Kathryn Hall" Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2013 in Magnum
98-100 Points Robert Parker "[A] profound set of aromatics...with almost unreal richness...this is a sensational inky, full-bodied wine that will come close to being a perfect wine...spectacular!"
98+ Points Robert Parker "This vintage of Insignia is certainly going to turn out to be one of the great ones...the wine has fabulous concentration, a full-bodied, multi-layered mouthfeel, and tremendous finish."
Lokoya Cabernet Sauvignon Mount Veeder 2013
100 Points Robert Parker "A wine offering notes of grilled steak, steak tartare, beef blood, blueberries and blackberries galore...This 100% Cabernet Sauvignon wine is utterly profound, and while the scoring system ends at 100, if I had to pick a single wine that may have been my favorite of all the tastings I did in Napa, this could have been my pick. Full-bodied, rich, with incredible integration of its component parts of acidity, tannin, alcohol and wood, the wine is lavishly built, has compelling purity, richness and density, and a finish...being close to one minute in length. This wine will be certainly approachable young, but last 30-40+ years."
Schrader "CCS Beckstoffer To Kalon" Cabernet Sauvignon 2013
100 Points Robert Parker "There is something ethereal about the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon CCS, a wine that I tend to give more perfect scores to than of the other Schrader offerings...it always seems to have these incredible, explosive aromatics ranging from blueberry to blackberry to cassis to spring flowers and lead pencil shavings. It’s always one of the more seductive wines early on, with sweet, velvety tannins, a plush, succulent mouthfeel, full-bodied splendor and majestic texture. This is a killer effort of great intensity and presence. Drink it over then next 25-30 years."
As always, we are happy to assist in any way we can, so contact us today with your questions and requests.