Cabernet value from Sonoma County’s historic 2018 vintage
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2018 Zo Wines Cabernet Sauvignon Sonoma County 750 ml
Retail: $49 | ||
| $19 | 61% off | per bottle |
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Grown primarily in Sonoma County’s prime Cab country of Alexander Valley in one of this century’s best vintages, the 2018 Zo Wines Cabernet is a hidden gem that bested some BIG names with a Gold Medal at Sonoma County’s premier insider wine event. That award came in the $45-$55 category, but we nabbed a SMOKING deal on this by taking every last bottle the winery would give us—not much, since it was made in a tiny 280-case quantity. It’s a Cab stunner from an amazing vintage, and you can’t do better for the price.
You can read Wine Enthusiast and the SF Chronicle all you want. But if you really want to know what’s going down in Sonoma County, check out the Harvest Fair.
For half a century—since BEFORE the Judgment of Paris put California on the world winemaking map—Sonoma County has hosted their wild wine-industry celebration, attracting locals, tourists, wine-lovers, pig farmers, pumpkin-growers, world-class winemakers, amateur enologists, and more. There’s almost nothing agricultural that doesn’t go on at the Harvest Fair.
The event’s big event is the wine competition, and the professional division is where you’ll find the undiscovered gems of Sonoma County. We go there looking for family-run wineries with EXTREMELY limited reach, but whose wines are more than good enough to compete with household-name Sonoma County wineries—and even beat them.
That’s exactly what Zo Wines did with their 2018 Northern Sonoma Cabernet. Winner of a Gold Medal at the 2021 Harvest Fair, it smoked a slew of wines in the $45–$55 Cabernet category, including some from names you definitely know.
Since the historic 2018 vintage, and since the 2021 win, this wine has cooled its heels in the Zo Wines cellars, until we got a line on it. It impressed our judging panel, and we snapped up the rest of the available inventory—not much, since they only made about 280 cases to begin with.
Grown mainly in Alexander Valley, aged in 25% new French oak (and the rest used French oak), this bold, juicy, and impactful Cabernet shows intricate and generous aromas of dark fruit and spice, with plum, cassis, and tobacco. After a stretch in the cellar, the palate is lush and silky, with velvety tannins that deliver a lengthy finish.