Vine Hill Ranch

VHR, Napa Valley, 2019

Name: VHR, Napa Valley
Brand: Vine Hill Ranch
Price: 671.8 GBP

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2019
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£671.80

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

2019 Vine Hill Ranch VHR will forever sit alongside it’s preceding vintage as one half of a pair of almost perfect renditions of this remarkable vineyard. A shade richer and more profound than the 2018, the 2019 hails from the marginally warmer of the two years, though neither was punctuated by severe heat. Harvest was relatively late for this part of the world, finishing at the end of October after a five week pick. Yields were just about average. As it rises from the glass this is immediately complex, bright and deep with polished fruit, stones and mountain herbs all on display. It is a VHR that purrs at you from the get go. On the palate polished fruit notes combine with what Bruce would call Chaparral notes, a sort of mountain shrub aromatic that simultaneously smells like the forest and crushed stones. Structurally and in texture this all finesse, seductive cashmere tannins allied to natural freshness and tension. The wine offers up a glorious combination of intensity and elegance, the combination of really pleasurable fruit character mixed with a remarkable architectural framework that will repay extended aging in bottle.

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When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost 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

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon tastes like a barrel sample, such is its purity of fruit and lushness! It is perhaps the most opulent wine ever made here and therefore likely to require a number of years before it is even close to being ready to drink. Primary fruit and plush contours are front and center. The 2019 needs time to come together, and yet its sheer beauty is impossible to miss. The 2019 is a real head-turner, that much is clear.

drinking window 2029 - 2044

date of review 03/2022

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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.