Dalla Valle, Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, 1994 (1.5L) BRUNELLODI040225 its varieties and even its

its varieties and even its indigenous yeasts

the 2013 Mount Eden Chardonnay is a wine that rewards both immediate enjoyment and further aging

Thomas Fogarty crafts this Chardonnay from estate vineyards high in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains

all delivered in a bone-dry

and Pontoni bottles it as a single-vineyard wine only in the right years rather than blending it into a house cuvee

Dalla Valle, Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, 1994 (1.5L) BRUNELLODI040225 its varieties and even its1994 is one of the benchmark Napa Cabernet vintages, and this is a magnum of it from one of Oakville's great hillside estates. Gustav and Naoko Dalla Valle planted 21 acres on a rocky volcanic plateau just east of the Silverado Trail, where iron rich red soils and yields held to about a ton and a half per acre produce Cabernet of real density; Heidi Barrett made the wine in these years. The 1994 season was a long, even one a dry, cool spring that