2021 Fait Main Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard St. Helena Napa Valley 750 ml


$245	0% off	per bottle

quantity: 1

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The Story

In the marvelous 2021 season, Benoit Touquette crafted three wines that earned 100 points from Jeb Dunnuck. His Realm Dr. Crane and Hartwell bottings cost $650 and $913. For those sums, you can put away multiple bottles of his Fait Main Beckstoffer Las Piedras Cabernet, which is one of the most exquisite, stirring Napa Valley Cabernets you’ll ever taste. Every collector we know has been clamoring for this nearly impossible-to-find bottle since the score came out. Because of our long friendship with Benoit, we’ve got a cellar-direct allocation for Wine Access members.

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Wine Facts
- Fruit Intensity
- Oak Intensity
- Body
- Acidity
- Tannin
- ABV 15.20%
- 1.5 hours
- 2025 - 2045
- % Cabernet Sauvignon
- Serving temperature - 60°
- Cork
Wine Access Tasting Note

Midnight purple with a solid core. The ripe and rich nose conveys Napa Valley power: Aromas of dark cherry, blackberry pie filling, cassis, roasted espresso beans, new leather, vanilla bean, and sandalwood. Velvety texture and supple tannins, displaying fleshy fruits over the muscular structure. Flavors of spice-soaked cherries, licorice, violets, and dark cocoa abound. This is a wise investment, as it will only show more over the next several decades. Drink 2025–2045.
Food Pairings
- Hard Cheese
- Cured Meat
- Red Meat
Critic Reviews

100 pts

Jeb Dunnuck

Glass-staining purple and 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard has a more backward, inward style with beautiful darker, savory red and black fruits, spicy oak, graphite, and cocoa powder aromas and flavors. It's rich, powerful, concentrated, and full-bodied, with serious tannins and length. I continue to think this vineyard has hit a new level over the past 4-6 years, and this certainly adds fuel to the fire. Napa Cabernet Sauvignon simply does not get any better. Hide bottles for 4-5 years, count yourself lucky, and enjoy over the following two decades.

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The Summit of St. Helena

When Bordeaux native Benoit left his home for California’s Cabernet epicenter, he aimed for the top—so he positioned himself deftly alongside Andy Erickson at Ovid and Screaming Eagle. He also chose a stellar mentor in Michel Rolland—the world-famous consulting winemaker whose name is on 100-pointers by Harlan, Bond, and Araujo. The men remain close to this day.

Now Benoit is a household name among Wine Access devotees. He’s at the pinnacle of Napa winemaking, with seemingly countless 100-point scores to his name. His Cabernets can fetch between $300 and $1,300+ (seriously) per bottle.

Las piedras means pebbles, and it’s the crushed-rock character of this site that’s made it a dream site for elite Cabernet houses. Located at the base of Spring Mountain in St. Helena, the vines were originally planted in the 1840s on property that had been a Mexican land grant. Andy Beckstoffer, perhaps Napa Valley’s most renowned grower, acquired Las Piedras in 1983 and replanted it to Cabernet Sauvignon.

Las Piedras is just a quarter of the acreage of the famed To Kalon Vineyard, and it is the site that Benoit credits with making him want to make his own wine. Planted with Clone 4 Cabernet, the vines are lyre-trained, which lets in plentiful light and air. Benoit collaborates with the Beckstoffers on his portion, and they use shade cloth in the late season to filter the sunlight to maintain even ripening.

Benoit made just 300 cases of the phenomenal 2021 Las Piedras. You’ll be proud to have a bottle—or hopefully multiples—in your cellar.

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