Fortune 1621, Cabernet Sauvignon

Honestly, I thought wines like this had all but ceased to exist. Given the costs of inputs in today’s Napa Valley, it’s not often you see a Cabernet Sauvignon of genuine pedigree at this price point. At $32 you’re more likely to find something mass-produced and largely innocuous, not a 2,500-case boutique bottling with the kind of power and polish that pushes other wines into three-digit territory.Color us impressed: The Bump family of Napa’s Darms Lane have created something special with their “Fortune 1621” label, namely one of the best values for real-deal Napa Valley Cabernet any of us has ever seen. Today’s 2017 was poured for us without any mention of price, which made the eventual “reveal” that much more dramatic: We were prepared to pay (and charge) more for it, because it would still have been a great buy, but once we learned the real number it became a question of how fast we could get it up on the site. So, here it is: Delicious, distinctive, small-production Cabernet offeri