Spottswoode Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 1990 (1.5L) CRV10 and espresso

and espresso

and beautifully structured

austere half of Côte-Rôtie

Ratafia is what happens when a Champagne grower decides not to ferment the juice at all

Spottswoode Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 1990 (1.5L) CRV10 and espressoMary Weber Novak released Spottswoode's first Cabernet in 1982 from the historic St. Helena estate her family purchased in 1972, and within a decade the wine was sitting alongside Napa's most coveted bottlings. 1990 was a benchmark vintage in the valley, and Spottswoode's version has aged exactly as the great ones do: composed, focused, fully resolved. In magnum, the wine has evolved more slowly and shows even more freshness and structure than the