One of 2021’s best Napa Valley mountain Cabs
- 95 pts James Suckling95 pts JS
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2021 Courtney Benham Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Mount Veeder Napa Valley 750 ml
Retail: $90 | ||
| $55 | 39% off | per bottle |
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There’s No Shortcut to Mountain Greatness
Why bother with the thorny logistics, risks, and profit-eating costs of farming Napa’s highest mountain plots—some of the appellation’s toughest, most unyielding terrain?
A 95-point blockbuster like the 2021 Courtney Benham Cabernet Reserve Mount Veeder is why.
The combination of deeply saturated color, colossal concentration, signature mountain aromatics, and brick-house structure makes a wine like this irresistible to buyers and winemakers alike—despite the trials required to make it.
Keith Emerson, the 100-point winemaker behind Vineyard 29, already has ample access to many of Napa’s best vineyards. With partner Courtney Benham—the consummate operator behind the smash-hit popularity of brands like Angeline and Martin Ray Vineyards—they’ve turned the craft of making high-quality value wines into an art form and a humming business. No high-altitude headaches required.
But when presented with the chance to work with some prized plots above the fog line on Mount Veeder—a magic clime where mornings are warmer and afternoons cooler than on the valley floor—they couldn’t say no, even if it meant courting challenge and a hit to the bottom line.
In years past, a wine like today’s might end up being prohibitively expensive, as winemakers had to jack prices up to eke out any return on investment. It’s no wonder that it wasn’t until the middle of the 20th century that some of Napa’s top talents first began to tackle the region’s now-famous rugged mountain vineyards. But Benham made the economics work, making the 2021 Mount Veeder Reserve accessible to everyday buyers—and for pure value and quality, this one takes the cake.