2016 Highlands Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Coombsville 750 ml

Just about every Highlands Winery bottle we’ve shared with our members over the last seven years has sold out. They’re some of the biggest fan-favorites in Wine Access history, accruing glowing member-reviews and always sparking dozens of inquiries about when we’re getting more in stock.

We’re now thrilled to offer you a limited, back-vintage allocation of the 2016 Highlands Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Coombsville. 

The 2016 Napa Valley vintage was rated 98 points by Wine Spectator—placing it in Napa’s top three years ever. This bottle—from a stellar site near Palmaz in the same AVA that stars like Paul Hobbs and Andy Erickson (Favia) are making famous—displays the season’s fruit-driven, ripe, hedonistic style, and it’s drinking beautifully after seven years in the Highlands cellar.  

A Napa veteran, Segas acquired top vineyards in the 1970s, and they earned him a roster of A-list clients like Joseph Phelps, Chateau Montelena, and Robert Mondavi. He partnered with Dave Cofran—a UC Davis alum from the class that produced winemaking talents like Justin Meyer and Ric Forman—and they’ve since become some of the most consistent hitmakers in the Valley. 

To create their Reserve Cabernet, the duo tapped their friend Tom Farella, a 40-year veteran grower and winemaker in Coombsville. Farella’s such a pioneer in the area that he wrote the petition in 2009 to have Coombsville formally recognized as an appellation—and in 2011, it became Napa’s 16th AVA, renowned for a moderate climate that comes courtesy of its proximity to San Pablo Bay. 

Farella NAILED the 2016 vintage in this Highlands Cab, and in the cellar it will cruise another 5–10 years.