2022 Delightful and Strange Red Wine Napa Valley 750 ml

The winemaker behind the 2022 Delightful and Strange is so famous among lovers of Napa’s grandest reds that he’s very hard to describe without violating the terms of our NDA. He’s notched over TWO DOZEN 100-point releases and has placed the winery he leads—the source of today’s wine—in the elite Top 10 of Wine Spectator’s Top 100 list.

Work bearing this winemaker’s signature is generally priced to match, as well: He consults on bottles that sell for well in excess of $500 on the auction market, and this estate is known for Cabernet priced well into the triple-digits.

Today’s bottle is the product of a warm 2022 growing season that added extra richness and depth to seemingly every grape in Napa. That allowed this winemaking star to craft a creative homage to legendary Right Bank Bordeaux through his own distinctly Golden State lens. 

When we get the chance to offer wines from certain winemakers, alarms go off on Wine Access’ Slack channels. When that wine is gonna be NDA-protected—with the discount that implies—it might as well be literal klaxons.

The key, we’ve found, is to get the deal done fast: We’ve kept channels open and active for years, hoping for a chance like this. So when the time comes, we want to make sure that pen meets paper—or, alas, when mouse meets DocuSign—before the winery does too much math about how much these barrels would go for to their mailing list. In the short term, though, they get to generate some quick revenue for bottling- and harvest-related expenses, and we get to offer a stunning deal. Add in our members, it’s win-win-win.