2022 Grape Culture Cabernet Sauvignon Oakview Vineyard Oakville Napa Valley 750 ml

Skellenger Lane, little known outside the wine industry, is famous in Napa Valley. Silver Oak’s beloved longtime site Bonny’s Vineyard sits just south of Skellenger, Plumpjack and BOND’s St. Eden Vineyard is nearby, and sitting on Skellenger’s north side is one of the most expensive sites on the valley floor, Beckstoffer’s coveted Georges III Vineyard.

Oakview Vineyard, the source of the 2022 Grape Culture Oakview Vineyard Cabernet, is smack-dab in the middle of it all. When we last visited the crew at Grape Culture, we were absolutely thrilled to see they were making wine from the site.

Grape Culture has only been around since ‘19, but they’ve already made big waves, topping the charts at Enthusiast and then thrilling our members with one of the most-requested Cabernets we offered last year.

Their 2022 Oakview Cab is a muscular, rich wine that’s normally $150 at the winery—pretty much in line with what it costs just to get in the door in the neighborhood.

Grape Culture proprietor Collin Cranor grew up steeped in California’s wine culture… in the Livermore Valley. So when he founded Grape Culture in 2019 on the success of his Nottingham Cellars label, we expected success to come slowly. See, when out-of-town winemakers make their first foray into the Napa Valley big leagues, you’d assume they’d need a good half-decade to get their feet under them, to make connections, to hit their stride. They’d improve slowly, incrementally, and after maybe five or ten years steeped in Napa Valley, they’d start seeing some real success.

Not so with Collin, who has come charging out of the gate. This bottle only speaks to his skill and even greater potential.