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    2013 Titus Andronicus Proprietary Red 750 ml

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    A First-Rate Napa Valley Bordeaux Red

    A First-Rate Napa Valley Bordeaux Red

    On a day in Napa we won’t soon forget, we tasted at a top Pritchard Hill site, a neighbor of Screaming Eagle, and two stellar hillside vineyards on Spring and Howell Mountains. The 2013 Titus “Andronicus” topped them all. This voluptuous Bordeaux-style blend didn’t just blow us away: Of the Wine Access clients who have devoured this 2013 vintage - 36 have rated it a perfect 5 stars. Luckily Eric Titus gave us one last allocation. But when these 125 cases are gone, so is this value-stunner from Parker’s “game changer” vintage. 

    We’ve known Phil Titus for 25 years, and his marine biologist brother Eric for a decade. The story of their father Lee is a piece of St. Helena folklore. Lee was drawn to Napa Valley by his North Beach-bred wife Ruth Traverso, the daughter of Italian immigrants. When Lee finally started purchasing vineyard property west of the Silverado Trail in 1968, few Napa Valley growers understood what to plant on the rocky, volcanic soils of St. Helena; his land was planted to obscure grapes like Mondeuse, Burger, and Golden Chasselas. In a farsighted decision that would pay massive dividends, Lee replaced those alpine varieties with Bordeaux grapes.

    Everything changed.

    Phil and Eric run Titus now, producing wines exclusively from their St. Helena vineyards. Not surprisingly, the dry and steady conditions that produced Robert Parker’s “greatest vintage in 37 years” were incredibly kind to the Bordeaux varieties planted on the Titus estate. The result is a gentle beast of a wine that has to be tasted to be believed.