Bella Oaks

Bella Oaks, Napa Valley, 2021

Name: Bella Oaks, Napa Valley
Brand: Bella Oaks
Price: 580 GBP

98/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

98/100

The Wine Independent

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New Release
2021
3x75cl
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£845.56

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New Release
2021
1x1.5L
EP
£580.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Bella Oaks 2021 is a wine of tremendous proportion and poise, a controlled explosion of sophisticated and flowing dark fruit and minerality that manages to be both profound and propelled as if in a flow state– its deep core of fruit borne across the palate on a wave of sweet minerals and lifted by a towering vertical line. It’s a sensational new release and one to return to in about a decade: it will undoubtedly turn heads whenever a cork is pulled. A fully co-fermented blend of 93% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Cabernet Franc and 3% Cabernet Franc

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GUARANTEED PROVENANCE

Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of utmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

98/100

Joe Czerwinski,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The final blend of the Bella Oaks 2021 Proprietary Red Wine ended up at 94% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc. With a compelling nose of dusty earth, dried spices and mixed red and black cherries, this full-bodied wine boasts an elegant texture somewhere between silk and velvet with a gentle wash of silky tannins on the long, mouthwatering finish. To be released in Fall 2024.

drinking window 2027 - 2045

date of review 04/2024

98/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon, with 4% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc in the blend, is deep garnet-purple in color. It flies out of the glass with gregarious notes of black cherries, sassafras, licorice, and baked blackcurrants plus hints of rose oil and allspice. The full-bodied palate is laden with juicy black and red berry layers, supported by firm, fine-grained tannins and well-knit freshness, finishing long and fragrant.

drinking window 2027 - 2052

date of review 02/2024

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.