2016 Theorize Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 750 ml

Today, we’re thrilled to share one of Napa Valley's best values directly with you—the 2016 Theorize Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. At its suggested retail price of $80, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate raved over Theorize’s red currant, black cherry, and cigar box character, noting the ‘16  “delivers tons of muscular black fruit and a long, mineral-laced finish.” At $80, this bottle crushes the competition and deliciously proves that stellar Napa Valley values still exist. 

Crafted by the winemaker behind Alpha Omega and The Debate (where he scored multiple 100-pointers), Theorize’s score puts it in the company of $100+ Cabernets like Gemstone, Pott, and Flora Springs Rennie Reserve. With its saturated purple hue, gobs of currant and black fruit on the nose, Theorize is a broad-shouldered Cabernet that rolls with a core of black cherries and cassis, and easily competes with its high-priced peers for quality and complexity. 

Theorize began with the laudable goal of producing a Napa Valley brand with a great quality-to-price-ratio—something we’ve heard a million times before from well-intended winemakers who end up running head-on into the realities of sourcing grapes and top talent in Napa Valley. But Theorize has blown through those barriers, and in turn created a wine that confidently walks the quality-to-price walk. It proves that values like this do exist in Napa Valley—when you know where to find them.

Massive credit, of course, belongs to consulting winemaker Jean Hoefliger, the globe-hopping talent best known for Napa’s Alpha Omega winery, and for wines that have impressed both Robert Parker and Jeb Dunnuck to the tune of 100 points. After getting a viticultural degree in Switzerland, Hoefliger did formative stints in Bordeaux at Château Carbonnieux and Château Lynch-Bages. Then he turned his focus to the New World, where he has made two flawless wines under The Debate label, several 98-pointers at Alpha Omega, and a slew of impressive wines with Newton and Michel Rolland.

For what some of the big-name Napa Cabernets charge for one bottle of their Cab, you can put away four bottles of this beauty.