Big-time Cabernet from Oakville’s Money Road
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2020 Dolum Cabernet Sauvignon Cask 3 Oakville Napa Valley 750 ml
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Dragging Hoses Before He Could Even Drink
Aptly named Money Road slices through the tenderloin of Napa’s prestigious Oakville AVA.
Located not far from Opus One, the vineyards on Money Road’s east side rub shoulders with Groth’s Reserve Block—the “sweet spot” that produced California's first 100-point wine—and sit just a stone’s throw from where some of the most renowned labels in Napa Valley grow grapes.
This is a neighborhood that few can match for outright Cabernet quality, and it’s exactly where the 2020 Dolum Cabernet Sauvignon Cask 3 Oakville Napa Valley was grown. We can’t name the site, but it’s a 41-year old parcel in the neighborhood where wines regularly command prices north of $150 per bottle.
Dolum winemaker Chad Alexander started making wine before he was old enough to drink it. He began working as a teenager at Hess collection in 1985, and worked there all through college. Eventually this Mount Veeder local worked his way up to become head winemaker at Robert Craig Winery, crafting many critically acclaimed Cabernets. Since 2006, he's been a consulting winemaker in high demand by names like V12, Reilly Family, and Rahn Estate. He’s also the head winemaker for Dolum Estates.
This wine comes from a 14-acre Oakville site on the valley floor, where it enjoys cool morning fog. The majority of the site, planted in 1979—and tended by the same family ever since—is gravelly mixed with clay loam soils. The vineyard is dry-farmed for most of the year, irrigated only when strictly necessary after veraison. Intense blackberry and cherry fruit is why Oakville is one of the best places on earth to grow Cabernet Sauvignon, and this baby is a brute that does its provenance proud.