2021 Madrigal Vineyards Nuestra Sangre Red Wine Estate Napa Valley 750 ml

When a winemaker who’s earned sixty-five 100-point scores buys your winery and vineyard, you’ve clearly got a prime piece of Napa terroir. 

Jayson Woodbridge—the unstoppable force behind Hundred Acre, whose over-the-top red wines frequently top $500—has an undeniable eye for terroir, and he bought Madrigal’s property between Calistoga and St. Helena just last year. He told the San Francisco Chronicle, “This type of opportunity only comes along for vineyards of this quality perhaps every 50 years.” 

Madrigal’s 2021 Nuestra Sangre Red Wine is a rich Napa red grown in the spectacular 97-point 2021 season. It’s “a mountain of a wine in every sense of the word,” says our VP of Wine, Eduardo Dingler. Built of Merlot and inky Petite Sirah, it’s bold and plush, muscular and structured, with a beautifully velvety texture. 

The Madrigal family has been farming in Napa Valley since the late 1930s, growing grapes for legendary wineries like Duckhorn. In 2007, they built their own winery and started producing bold, rich wines from their rows just north of St. Helena. By 2013, they’d been named to the “Top 10 Wineries for Napa Insiders” by California Winery Advisor, alongside names like Cade, Corison, and Miner Family 

In the outstanding 2021 vintage—rated 97 points and deemed a “classic” by Wine Spectator—they produced this Merlot-driven blend that absolutely blew us away when we tasted it. With plush flavors of  summer-kissed blackberry, violets, licorice, and chocolate, plus a muscular yet velvety palate presence, it’s a dynamite drink-now Napa red.