NDA Cab from One of Napa’s Most Decorated Winemakers!

The 2022 Color and Sound is sourced from a winery client of one of the most acclaimed winemakers in Napa Valleys historya living legend whos helmed multiple Hall-of-Fame cult-Cabernet producers and authored a plethora of 99- and 100-point wines.

Alexis was really feeling the wine.

This is big and brassy, like the horns at the start of Mahlers fifth. She swirled a little longer and continued I have a hard time drinking anything if it doesnt have a big personality, and most of those bottles tend to be priceybut this right here She trailed off.

We knew what she meant.

And looking back, its hard to believe it all started in Brooklynin Greenpoint, no less.

We never expected to run into her there. After all, shes a Yountville native, and we usually find her holding court at the bar at Mustards in front of a Little Gem caesar. She seems to know everybody in the valley, and everybody knows Alexis: shes a sharp dresser with Italian-accented style. She also happens to be a synesthete, tasting flavors as soundsso drinking with her tends to stick in your memory.

But Greenpoint? Saddled up to a bright-pink bar, with a glass of cloudy orange wine in her hand? Turns out, like us, she was in the city for a few nights. Like us, a somm friend had dragged her to this spot on the bleeding-edge of hip, and now the friend was AWOL. She couldnt be happier to run into us.

Thankfully, the place had a great Champagne selectionwe both were in the mood for something that seemed a little less, umm, actively aliveand we started catching up on Napa goings-on.

After half the bottle was drained, Alexis dropped a minor bombshell. So a friend made a little too much wine last year she said, maybe six, eight more barrels of Cab that they dont know what to do with.

We asked her who the friend was. And we couldnt believe the name she replied with.

We checked our phonewhat time was it in Napa, again?

A few weeks later, we met up with Alexisthis time back at Mustardsand we brought a couple unlabeled bottles. It turned out the high-level winery she mentioned did have a few extra barrels of Cabernet, and we talked our way into a couple (but not all six or eight, alas). We wanted to share the fruits of our labor with Alexis. And needless to say, lunch was on us.

We poured the deep ruby-purple wine into our glasses and swirled. We got layers of ripe blackberries, dark cherries, just-ground coffee, and hints of vanilla bean on the nose. Alexis took another sip, and we waited for her to cite some specific musical passage from an eminent composer. Damn, was all she said.

The 2022 Color and Sound comes from one of the most decorated winemakers in Napas history, a superstar consultant with a bevy of 99- and 100-point scores, plus a Winemaker of the Year honor. Loaded with complex blackberry, cherry, plum, spice, vanilla, and dark cocoa flavors, itll have you thinking it was a $100+ bottle. In a not-very-different world, it might have been.

Deep ruby in appearance, with lively hints of purple throughout. Fresh, complex layers of aromas, including ripe blackberries, red and black cherries, fresh vanilla beans, just-ground espresso, violets, toast, strawberries, and crushed stone. Its already gorgeously interwoven on the palate, with fresh acidity and lively flavors of fresh red and black fruits, exotic spices, fresh earth, fennel, 75%-cocoa dark chocolate, and raspberries. The perfect accompaniment to seared lamb lollipops, white truffle risotto, or an aged Irish cheddar. Drink now2032.

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