Long Meadow Ranch, Cabernet Sauvignon HALF BOTTLE

Although I’m not one to be demanding, I must call on all subscribers to take immediate advantage of today’s painfully limited and rare offering. Put simply, it doesn’t get any better than classic, 15+-year-old Napa Valley Cabernet stored to perfection. Just like gold dust, this is a hard category to find, and those that can be located typically repel a vast number of people due to exorbitant pricing. So, one of our goals for 2021 was to track down a singular bottle of traditional, substantially aged Napa Cab that everybody could afford. After five excruciating months, our treasure hunt ended on Long Meadow Ranch’s 2006. It took an incalculable number of calls/emails, a personal visit to their mountain estate, an exhaustive vertical tasting from the cellar, and an impassioned bout of horse-trading. It was worth every moment. In spite of the half-bottle size, we consider this savory gem to be the finest back-vintage Napa Cab $39 can buy. Full transparency: LMR also had a small parcel of