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2013 Sueno Profundo Cabernet Sauvignon Atlas Peak Napa Valley 750 ml

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Napa Valley 2013: “The Game Changer”

Sometimes we think we’re screaming at the top of our lungs in Madison Square Garden but no one is in attendance. In May 2014, we spent four days touring Napa Valley, tasting the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignons out of barrel. We reported that while it was still early, we found this to be the most captivating and complete vintage of our careers. As rich as 2012, but with smaller berries and thicker skins, the tannic structure at almost every top-notch address argued powerfully for Cabernets that will age effortlessly for 20-30 years.

Many believed us. Skeptics like you, however, did not.

You didn’t completely trust us then. But maybe now that the most influential critic the wine world has ever known has mimicked our first impressions, you’ll wake up and smell the roses.

Here’s what Robert Parker had to say about 2013 — the Napa Valley vintage of our lifetime. The Wine Advocate’s title kind of says it all.

“Focusing on the Greatest Vintage I’ve Tasted in 37 Years Visiting Northern California: 2013 - The Game Changer”

“2012 was a great vintage for nearly every varietal in North Coast California, but what is even more remarkable is that 2013 may turn out to be the finest vintage I have experienced in tasting North Coast varietals over the last 37 years. It's a game-changer in terms of the consistency of quality, the depth of quality, and the across-the-board excellence for so many wines.”

Here’s why.

The fruit set in 2013, much like 2012, was quite regular and bountiful. Less than an inch of rain fell in April, then barely a drop before the beginning of November. While the end of June was quite hot, 2013 was cooler than 2012, with summer highs largely in the mid- to upper-80s. October was beautiful. Blue skies. Daytime highs in the low 80s, while nighttime lows dipped into the low 50s.

At harvest, there were far higher skin-to-juice ratios than 2012. Natural sugars were quite high (between 14-16%). Acids were firm. Tannins were ripe and penetrating. As Parker concluded in the vintage report that has sent prices soaring from Oakville to Atlas Peak, the 2013s are “powerful, rich and concentrated, extremely well-delineated, and will be extremely long-lived, eclipsing even the aging potential of the 2012s.”

Drawn off a parcel perched at 2,000 feet in elevation among the nosebleed slopes of Atlas Peak, Ry Richards, the assistant winemaker at Chappellet, crafted a stupendous mountain Cabernet Sauvignon that speaks volumes to both the intensity and age-worthiness of the great 2013 vintage.

The 2013 Sueño Profundo Cabernet Sauvignon Atlas Peak is opaque purple in hue. Ripe, opulent, and utterly seductive, infused with voluptuous aromas of crushed black fruits, violets, graphite, and tobacco, the core is packed with blackberry and mountain blueberry preserves, doused with crème de cassis, finishing with superb tannic backbone. Drink now for its primary-fruit hedonism, or do as we’re doing and lay this mountain powerhouse down until the early to mid-2020s. It could surely use the rest.

$65 on release. $24 today. 420 bottles are up for grabs. Shipping included on 4.