DOUBLE 94 POINTS! From 100 point phenom Aaron Pott, ten years young, and the marvelous 2016 Napa vintage — all for OVER $165 OFF! 

Galloni called it “one of the best wines I have tasted from Blackbird.” Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate praised its delivery of “loads of bright, refreshing flavors and a quiet, earthy intensity…” Jeb Dunnuck highlighted its “fabulous complexity”. And yours truly? Welp, it flat out ROCKS, my friends — this is Cabernet Franc-dominant, Right Bank Bordeaux-style done to absolute PERFECTION…and the fact that it is just peaking now at a gorgeous decade since harvest…all the better! 

Let’s start with the perfume…the sweetly intoxicating, downright stupefying PERFUME! This is incredibly fresh, supremely floral, and the aromatic champion that is Cabernet-Franc-Done-Right showcases its utter potential for brilliance here. The lilies and violets, the crimson roses, the inky, crushed blackberries and crème de cassis headiness…MY WORD!!! I’m in love, and it hasn’t even touched my lips yet! 

And…are you ready? Let’s sip with splendor!!! The blue fruit freshness…blueberries, and powdery, almost baby powder-esque grip, with graphite, and plums, blackberries, black raspberries, smoky, meaty goodness, and this gorgeously sappy, mouth-coating velvety-ness…I just can’t!!! This is elegance — true Old World elegance — the sort that makes me want to break out a crushed velvet crimson smoking jacket, sit in a highback, brass-studded serpent-green leather chair, and watch the crackling flames dance in the darkness of an obscenely oversized stone fireplace. Ya feel me?!?! We BARELY have enough to share — most people ‘round the country are getting something else offered their way entirely — but for you…the Chosen People, the lucky crème-de-la-crème of this fortuitous Friday grouping…what a WINE!!! 

Best price ANYWHERE?! You know what to do, my friends…WHILE IT LASTS!!!