Cult Cabernets from Napa Valley, Pinot Noir from Sonoma — California at its most ambitious.
Top 100 Wines / USA

The cult wine that launched a thousand waiting lists. Fewer than 500 cases per year from a 57-acre estate. Lush, precise, and almost impossibly concentrated blackcurrant and dark chocolate.

Hillside Cabernet of extraordinary depth and precision. Multiple 100-point scores from Robert Parker. Dense and brooding in youth; transcendent after two decades of cellaring.

The original Franco-Californian collaboration between Robert Mondavi and Baron Philippe de Rothschild. Bordeaux structure meets Napa ripeness in a wine of consistent, polished elegance.

Christian Moueix — the man behind Pétrus — brings Bordelais sensibility to Napa. Restrained and Old World in style, with minerality and precision rarely found in California.

First made in 1962, Ridge Monte Bello placed in the famous 1976 Paris Tasting rematch at 30 years. Earthy, structured, and remarkably age-worthy — more Bordeaux than California in spirit.
One of Napa's most consistently excellent Cabernets. Steep hillside vines yield low, concentrated fruit — intense blackberry, violet, and espresso over silky, fine-grained tannins.

From Pritchard Hill's volcanic soils, one of Napa's most sought cult wines. Lavender, cassis, violets, and graphite with tremendous structure — regularly scores 98–100 points.

From the remote eastern hills of Napa, Bryant Family produces a deeply structured, age-worthy Cabernet. Helen Turley's original winemaking set this estate apart; it remains one of Napa's most coveted labels.

The only wine to win Wine Spectator's Wine of the Year twice (1984, 1990). Rich, plush, and accessible — classic Rutherford dust with blackcurrant, cassis, and dark chocolate.

Paul Hobbs' benchmark California Pinot from the cool, fog-drenched Russian River. Sappy red cherry, dried rose petal, and silky texture — one of America's most consistent Pinot Noirs.