2020 Dalla Valle Vineyards Collina Red Wine Napa Valley 750 ml

Dalla Valle is an Oakville icon. It’s not uncommon for a taste of their terroir—ushered to the bottle by Napa winemaking legend Andy Erickson and internationally renowned consulting enologist Michel Rolland—to cost over $500. 

That’s why their Collina bottling is such a phenomenal opportunity. Grown on the exact same eastern Oakville terroir as Dalla Valle’s top bottlings—20 certified-organic acres that reach up to 450 feet of elevation—it comes for less than half the price of their estate-grown Cabernet, and a quarter of their flagship Maya wine.

This bottle is scarce beyond the walls of Dalla Valle’s winery. Aside from a handful of top restaurants such as PRESS in St. Helena, members of the mailing list claim almost all of Dalla Valle’s new releases.

From a winery famed for priceless bottles, Collina is one of Dalla Valle’s most accessible superstars. It’s a luxurious blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot is aged 22 months in 100% French oak, 55% of it new. The wine is still quite youthful, and its elegant tannins will make it a cellar star, able to gain complexity over the coming decade and beyond. 

The name translates to “hill” in Italian, and it’s been given to this incredibly delicious red because the majority of the fruit comes from the younger vines of Dalla Valle’s legendary hillside blocks. 

This is a gorgeous bottle from one of Napa Valley’s most celebrated wineries—It’s phenomenal right now, but also capable of aging for a decade-plus, developing with Dalla Valle’s characteristic grace and complexity. We’re lucky to have it, and it will make a stunning addition to your cellar.