🏷️ Lot Overview
Region: 58% Coombsville, 42% Napa Valley (Atlas Peak / Pritchard Hill)
Vintage: 2023
Blend: 95% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petite Verdot
ChatGPT Original Source Guess: Realm Cellars
Wine Berserkers Guess: Krupp Brothers “New Icon”
Alcohol: 14.9%
Oak Aging: 90% New French Oak (Taransaud, Francois Frères, Seguin Moreau)
Cam Price: $16.58 ($199/case)
Retail Estimate: $150–$200+
Drink Window: Late 2025–2045
🍷 Cameron’s Release Notes
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Lot 10 just landed—and it’s a monster.
We’re talking serious mountain muscle, blending Coombsville structure with fruit from one of Napa’s most exclusive hillside vineyards. The kind usually hidden behind NDAs and sold at triple-digit prices. Lot 10 was built for an icon-tier label, and trust us, it shows.
Here’s the deal:
- Fruit from a legendary vineyard straddling Atlas Peak and Pritchard Hill
- Aged in 90% new French oak from elite coopers
- Final blend originally destined for a $200+ bottle
- Only ~200 cases available
The wine? Inky and intense, with a dark violet core and just a flicker of purple at the rim. The nose pulls you in with black cherry, boysenberry jam, dark chocolate, cardamom, and seasoned oak. As it opens, layers of wild sage, violets, and red rock come into focus.
On the palate, it’s dense, ripe, and built like a powerlifter — bold tannins, black and blue fruit, and a finish of raspberry kirsch and black pepper that just won’t quit.
This one’s tight, structured, and cellar-ready. Let it rest a year or two—or stash it for 20+ if patience is your thing.
Tasting Notes
Showcasing a combination of hillside-meets-mountain power, Lot 10 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon is a massive, ripe, muscular wine blending meaty, high-toned Coombsville fruit (58%) with 42% Cabernet from “the vineyard that must not be named” straddling Atlas Peak and Pritchard Hill. Aged in 90% new French oak (Taransaud, Francois Frères, Seguin Moreau), this was originally intended as a $200+ icon-tier bottling.
Squid ink in the glass with a vibrant purple rim. The bouquet is densely packed—black cherry, boysenberry jam, dark chocolate, and cardamom layered with seasoned oak, wild sage, violets, and red rock. Rich and powerful on entry, with a mouth-coating structure of red rock-laced tannins and perfectly delineated black and blue fruit. The finish lingers with notes of raspberry kirsch, black pepper, and cocoa.
Tightly wound and built to age, it’s wrapped in baby fat now but will evolve beautifully with 1–2 years of bottle time.
58% Coombsville, 42% Napa Valley (Atlas Peak/Pritchard Hill)
95% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petite Verdot
90% new French oak
14.9% alc.
~200 cases
Bottling July 2025
🧠ChatGPT says:
🔍 Source Guess: Realm Cellars
🎯 Rationale:
Cam explicitly says Lot 10 is from a vineyard that “straddles Atlas Peak and Pritchard Hill” — the same legendary site mentioned in multiple other lots. This points squarely to Stagecoach Vineyard, particularly the highest-tier blocks that are sold only to Napa’s elite producers.
He also states that he “used to source from this vineyard but could never access these blocks,” suggesting these were once reserved for consulting winemakers with top-tier clients — exactly the type of arrangement Realm Cellars is known for.
The icon-tier ambitions, $200+ bottle price point, and extremely limited 200-case production imply a flagship or near-flagship wine, likely a new SKU that was later scrapped or consolidated. This matches how Realm occasionally experiments with small-lot releases from top vineyards.
The 58% Coombsville / 42% mountain blend, aged in 90% new French oak from top coopers (Taransaud, Francois Frères, Seguin Moreau), aligns with Realm’s portfolio-wide commitment to elegance and power. This blend of “muscle and structure” from Coombsville with mountain fruit purity is very much in their house style.
Finally, the language used — “tight, structured, cellar-ready,” “icon-tier,” and “powerlifter-like” — all fit Realm’s premium, ageworthy bottlings like Moonracer or their limited collaborations.
âś… Final call: Realm Cellars is the most likely source for Lot 10.
⏳ Drink Window
- Early tasting: Late 2025–2026, after bottle shock and integration.
- Peak: 2028–2038, when tannins mellow and fruit/oak harmonize.
- Hold: Through 2045 for tertiary development.
⏳ Drink window: Late 2025–2045 (peak 2028–2038)
🧑‍🤝‍🧑🍷 Wine Berserkers Guess: Krupp Brothers “New Icon”