cabernet sauvignon caldwell vineyard napa valley

Di Costanzo

Cabernet Sauvignon, Caldwell Vineyard, Napa Valley, 2021

Name: Cabernet Sauvignon, Caldwell Vineyard, Napa Valley
Brand: Di Costanzo
Price: 617.53 GBP

96/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

93-95/100

Vinous

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2021
75cl
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£102.92
2021
6x75cl
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£617.53

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

The cooler Coombsville AVA sits at the southern end of the Napa valley and is most exposed to the wines that funnel up over the San Pablo Bay. For some years its fruit has been a core component of many of Napa’s top blends, admired for the freshness it brings to a blend. Increasingly, top sites are now finding favour as vineyard designates, Caldwell amongst them. The profile here could not be more different to Massimo’s two Moon Mountain sites. Gone is the dark fruit, replaced by aromatic red and stone fruit notes, flowers both fresh and wilted and delicate aromas of bay and mossy woodland. The palate has great translucency, mid weight concentration, a long, salty, herbal red berry, cacao and graphite finish. There's a certain seductiveness to the tannins and texture here, a cashmere quality. A truly refined Napa Cabernet.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Critic Reviews

96/100

Joe Czerwinski,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Di Costanzo gets fruit from Block 11, planted in the early 1980s to Clone 337, with a bit of Clone 15. The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Caldwell Vineyard spent 20 days on skins, a bit longer than usual, then went into Taransaud barrels for aging (40% new). Cool, restrained scents include hints of pencil shavings, violets, cassis, black cherries and blueberriesa superbly nuanced and complex nose. In the mouth, the wine is medium to full-bodied and framed by ripe tannins that feel somewhere between velvet and silk on the lingering finish.

drinking window 2024 - 2040

date of review 07/2024

93-95/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Caldwell Vineyard is a dark, sumptuous wine. It offers up a beguiling mix of black cherry, plum, tobacco, incense and gravel. Just racked, the 2021 is still coming together in barrel, but it is a hugely promising wine. There's real breadth and substance here, not to mention tons of character.

drinking window 2025 - 2041

date of review 02/2023

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