Lot Overview
- Region: 100% Alexander Valley, Pocket Peak AVA (1,300–1,500 feet elevation)
- Vintage: 2024
- Varietal: 95% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot
- Oak Aging: 50% new French oak
- Alcohol: 14.5%
- Cases Available: ~125
- Cam Price: ~$12.50/bottle ($149/case)
- Retail Estimate: $60/bottle
- Claude’s Source Guess: Copper Six Wine — Star Springs Ranch, Pocket Peak AVA (same producer as Lots 37 & 52; Grand Cru Custom Crush)
- Wine Berserkers Guess: Copper Six
- Drink Window: 2026–2038 (peak 2028–2034)
Cameron’s Release Notes
Lot 53 hails from the same producer as Lot 37 Cabernet Sauvignon and Lot 52 Santa Lucia Highlands Gamay Noir. A small boutique outfit producing at an ultra-high-end custom crush facility with all the bells and whistles. The Cabernets would be selling as $100+ single-vineyard designates at just about any other winery in the region. Sourced from an epic vineyard site at 1,300–1,500 feet in the newly formed Pocket Peak sub-AVA of Alexander Valley. Whereas Lot 37 featured beautifully perfumed aromatics with an elegantly rendered mountain structure, Lot 53 is ripe-yet-complex, plush-yet-powerful — the warmer 2024 vintage while maintaining all the grace of altitude-grown Cabernet.
Tasting Notes
Deep ruby core with purple rim. The bouquet is immediate and ripe, almost boisterous, with chocolate-covered cherries, plum, and white floral perfume enveloped in the triumvirate aromas of high-quality French oak — cedar, leather, cigar tobacco. Rich, ripe and juicy on entry with gobs of plush, big-grained tannins carrying all the ripe blackberry and cherry flavors beautifully integrated with chocolatey oak notes. If big, bold, rich Cabernet Sauvignon is your thing, this is a do not miss.
⏳ Bottle Shock Status: Allow 60–90 days minimum. The 2024 vintage ripeness and 50% new oak need integration time.
Claude’s Source Guess: Copper Six Wine — Star Springs Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon, Pocket Peak AVA, 2024 vintage (same producer as Lots 37 & 52)
Cam explicitly confirms this is the same producer as Lots 37 and 52 — Copper Six Wine, producing at Grand Cru Custom Crush in Healdsburg. The same Star Springs Ranch site at 1,300–1,500 feet in the Pocket Peak AVA, now in the warmer 2024 vintage. Cam’s comparison is illuminating — Lot 37 (2023) was “ethereal and elegant,” while Lot 53 (2024) is “ripe, plush and powerful” — a classic expression of the vintage contrast between the cooler 2023 and the warmer 2024 growing season in Alexander Valley. The $60 retail and 125-case production are consistent with Copper Six’s established small-lot program.
✅ Confidence: Confirmed — same producer as Lots 37 and 52 per Cam’s explicit statement.
Drink Window
Early: 2026 — the 2024 vintage ripeness and 50% new oak need some integration time, though the open-knit style will show earlier than Lot 37.
Peak: 2028–2034. Warm-vintage Pocket Peak Cab peaks 4–10 years from vintage.
Hold: 2038. The mountain structure and 14.5% alc support a solid decade of aging.
My Call: ⏳ Drink window: 2026–2038 (peak 2028–2034)