Pioneering Rutherford Richness
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2017 Sullivan Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Coeur de Vigne Rutherford Napa Valley 750 ml
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After Sullivan, the World Rushed In
When the late Jim Sullivan settled on the Rutherford Bench in 1972, he knew. Four years before the Judgement of Paris made Napa a household name and four decades before neighboring Scarecrow auctioned wines for quadruple-digit prices, he knew:
He’d gotten his hands on some of the best winegrowing land in California.
Sullivan’s property contains nearly half the soil types found in Napa Valley—impressive, for a region defined by its geological diversity—and on the advice of his friend, the legendary André Tchelistcheff, he planted Bordeaux varieties there. Over the years, wineries like Quintessa and Alpha Omega would pop up, doing the exact same thing.
A taste of this 2017 Coeur de Vigne Cabernet is all you really need to understand the winery’s prestige. The wine carries the same satiny heft that long ago inspired Robert Parker to call Sullivan wines “among the richest and most massively constituted” in Napa. It’s muscular yet supple, bold yet deeply complex, and laden with black-fruit opulence and powerful concentration. Wine Enthusiast summed it up as “impressively made.”
Buy Coeur de Vigne at the winery, you’ll pay $110—not a bad price compared to many of Sullivan’s Rutherford neighbors. We’ve got it at nearly half that price.
This is the kind of lush boldness that helped transform Rutherford from relatively unknown farmland to one of the world’s most sought-after Cabernet sites. It’s why Sullivan is a Wine Access favorite, and why—if history is any indication—our cases won’t hang around for long.