Lot Overview
Region: Pocket Peak AVA, Alexander Valley (Sonoma County)
Vintage: 2024
Blend: 95% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petite Verdot
Perplexity Original Source Guess: Copper Six
Wine Berserkers Guess: Copper Six
Alcohol: 14.5%
Oak Aging: 50% new French oak
Cam Price: $12.42 ($149/case)
Retail Estimate: ~$100+/bottle as a single-vineyard designate (per Cam’s comment)
Drink Window: 2027–2037 (my call)
Cameron’s Release Notes
“Lot 53 2024 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon hails from the same producer as Lot 37 Cabernet Sauvignon and Lot 52 Santa Lucia Highlands Gamay Noir.”
“Lot 53 comes to us from a small boutique outfit and the wines are produced in a no-expense spared, ultra-high-end custom-crush facility with all the bells and whistles including 50% new French oak.”
“As I mentioned previously in the Lot 37 release, Lot 53 hails from a 1300+-foot elevation vineyard in the newly formed Pocket Peak AVA of Alexander Valley.”
“Folks, if big, bold, rich and ripe Cab is your thing, then I cannot recommend Lot 53 Cabernet Sauvignon enough.”
Lot 53 2024 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon hails from the same producer as Lot 37 Cabernet Sauvignon and Lot 52 Santa Lucia Highlands Gamay Noir (which I highlight here as there are a few cases left at the futures price…there are also, as of this writing, about 16 cases left of the Lot 55 2024 Yountville Malbec to boot).
Lot 53 comes to us from a small boutique outfit and the wines are produced in a no-expense spared, ultra-high-end custom-crush facility with all the bells and whistles including 50% new French oak. Everything we have purchased has been extremely well-made, artisan-crafted for complexity and represent a pretty damn good value even at the producers price points (the Cabernet’s, for instance, would be selling as $100+/bottle single-vineyard designates at just about any other winery in the region).
Which obviates the point that, under our program, it will be an incredible value. Duh.
As I mentioned previously in the Lot 37 release, Lot 53 hails from a 1300+-foot elevation vineyard in the newly formed Pocket Peak AVA of Alexander Valley. The vineyard performed admirably in both the 2023 and 2024 vintages but produced two distinctly different styles, as one would expect. Whereas Lot 37 featured beautifully perfumed aromatics combined with an elegantly rendered-yet-robust mountain structure, Lot 53 is a ripe-yet-complex, plush-yet-powerful and decidedly delicious Cabernet Sauvignon that reflects the warmer vintage while maintaining all the grace and beauty of Cabernet Sauvignon grown at altitude – the best of both worlds if you will.
Folks, if big, bold, rich and ripe Cab is your thing, then I cannot recommend Lot 53 Cabernet Sauvignon enough. It is extremely