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🏷️ Lot Overview
Region: Alexander Valley (Sonoma County)
Vintage: 2024
Blend: 100% Malbec
ChatGPT Original Source Guess: [redacted per Cam’s request]
Wine Berserkers Guess: [redacted]
Alcohol: 14.5%
Oak Aging: 50% new French oak
Cam Price: $14.00 ($169/case, Futures)
Retail Estimate: $100+
Drink Window: 2026–2036
🍷 Cameron’s Release Notes
Howdy Folks!
Have I got an amazing offer for you today!
As we are in rarefied air here, and I would like to preserve this relationship for all of our benefit (if you get my drift), I humbly request that you refrain from mentioning or speculating about the producer online.
Many of you have probably not had much experience with California Malbec, so this one will likely boil down to trust.
I ask you to trust me when I tell you that Lot 39 2024 Alexander Valley Malbec is one of the most beautiful, sensuous, and beguiling red wines I have ever run across in the California bulk wine market. It’s gorgeous, I promise, and I am confident this will go down as a legendary offer.
If that sounds remotely up your alley, you’ll want to pounce on this.
Only 200 cases available. Futures shipping January 2025.
Tasting Notes
Vibrant, saturated purple in the glass. The bouquet is intense and beguiling, redolent of blackberry pie, crushed raspberries, and chocolate-covered cherry, haloed with liquid violet notes, sweet tobacco leaf, and a pungent underpinning of cedary, toasty French oak (50% new).
The bouquet alone is worth the price of admission — it’s super-sexy, exquisite, and insanely complex.
The palate is robust on entry, with a meaty, dense structure carrying gobs of ripe blueberry and blackberry, lifted with crushed raspberry notes that provide terrific tension, energy, and freshness. Silky, perfectly integrated tannins caress the palate with a velvety texture and long, persistent finish.
In a word: Ab Fab.
100% Alexander Valley Malbec (Estate grown and produced)
50% new French oak
14.5% alc.
~200 cases produced
🧠 ChatGPT says
🔍 Source Guess: [redacted per Cam’s request]
🎯 Rationale
(internal reasoning omitted for publication per Cam’s request)
⏳ Drink Window
Early Enjoyment:
Starts showing beautifully in early 2026, once bottle shock has passed.
Peak Drinking:
2027–2033, when fruit depth, oak, and texture reach full harmony.
Hold Potential:
Capable of graceful evolution through 2036.
⏳ Drink window: 2026–2036 (peak 2027–2033)