Inglenook

Rubicon, Rutherford, Napa Valley, 2022

Name: Rubicon, Rutherford, Napa Valley
Brand: Inglenook
Price: 744 GBP

96/100

Inside Bordeaux

95-97/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

96-98/100

The Wine Independent

88/100

Vinous

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all 2022

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2022
6x75cl
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£744.00

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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

88/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Rubicon shows a bit better balance than the Cabernet Sauvignon, but it is heavily marked by overripe, roasted fruit, an overall lack of freshness and limited mid-palate depth. The challenges of the growing season appear to have been considerable here.

drinking window 2025 - 2030

date of review 12/2025

96/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Medium intensity ruby red, one of the standouts of the lineup. Full dark berry and mint leaf Cabernet character, generous, juicy, with energy and forward motion. This delivers campfire, liquorice, cocoa bean and incense without missing a beat. A warm vintage, so the challenge was being ready to pick and to avoid dehydration, meaning a touch of irrigation at the end of August, and to compensate during winemaking by soft extractions, 75% new French oak for ageing. New winery, built into a knoll within the property, opened for this 2022 vintage, with over 100 stainless steel vats. Harvest September 1 through to the end of the month. Director of winemaking Philippe Bascaules, Todd Devincenzi winemaker.

drinking window 2027 - 2042

date of review 08/2025

95-97/100

Joe Czerwinski,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Out of barrel, the 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Rubicon boasts exciting scents of ripe cherries, dusty earth and baking spicescinnamon, vanilla, cardamomplus more obviously oak-derived notes of cedar. It's medium to full-bodied, reflecting a freshness that belies the vintage's heat, framed by silky tannins and possesses ample concentration and length on the finish without any feeling of excess weight.

drinking window 2025 - 2040

date of review 10/2024

96-98/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

The 2022 Rubicon, tasted as a barrel sample and composed of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6.1% Cabernet Franc, 6.1% Merlot, and 2.8% Petit Verdot, is deep garnet-purple in color. Notes of black cherry compote, warm cassis, and boysenberry preserves leap from the glass, leading to touches of violets, cedar chest, and tilled soil. The medium to full-bodied palate reveals a fine-grained texture of nice ripe tannins and bags of freshness to frame the tightly wound black fruit layers, finishing on a lingering ferrous note.

drinking window 2026 - 2048

date of review 11/2023

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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.