KAPARA CELLARS CABERNET SAUVIGNON RESERVE NAPA VALLEY 2012
Sometimes good things come in small packages. Sometimes great things come in kind of homely packages, but the Kapara Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Napa Valley 2012 excels where it really matters. How about a Cabernet that is all Pritchard Hill juice and costs under $35? Say, what? Now this is made by a winery located in Clarksberg that buys fruit, but we would make the point that Pritchard Hill is the most exclusive of Napa appellations and is host to a very small but super elite group including Bryant, Brands, Colgin, Ovid, Continuum, Chappellet, all of which have logged hefty scores and even heftier price tags.
So where did this juice come from? We cannot say, but all of the possibilities are pretty spectacular, and this wine won a ‘double-gold’ medal at the San Francisco Chronicle Competition on its own. Salient point, this is stellar juice from an elite source that is simply loaded with deep, dark cassis and blueberries that clearly hint at a much more noble pedigree than its price would suggest. You’ll have a hard time finding a better value in Napa Cabernet than this tiny, 150-case production gem from Kapara. . . . . . .$34.98