2023 Color and Sound Cabernet Sauvignon St. Helena Napa Valley 750 ml

This NDA-shrouded breakthrough deal was crafted at a St. Helena winery that, to outsiders, would appear to be the postcard image of a luxury Napa estate.

But step inside the creaky old building, and you’ll discover the hidden reason that a few of St. Helena’s top winemakers are parked in the lot out front. Concealed deep underground is one of Napa’s finest and most sophisticated custom crush facilities, featuring state-of-the-art vinification technology that would make even the toniest consultants wag tongues.

In just a single recent vintage, a slew of 100-point wines were crafted here—from vineyards as far afield as Beckstoffer To Kalon and the heights of Diamond Mountain. Spend some time on the slouched leather sofa in the lobby or leaning against the brand-new stainless steel fermentation tanks in the cellar—as we have—and you’ll overhear conversations that amount to a masterclass in making Napa Cabernet deemed “perfect” by critics.

This gorgeous, seamless 2023 Color and Sound release—which was crafted at this historic St. Helena hotspot—carries that conversation forward in bottle form right to your dinner table.

We’re friends with the winery team (and have sold many of their three-figure bottles). For this release, instead of pulling on their own limited quantity of estate fruit, they introduced us to the powerhouse vintners who call this place their office—and who have connections to some of Napa’s greatest vineyards. The 2023 vintage was not only one of the greatest harvests in decades—it provided a generous bounty of fantastic grapes, opening up several deal opportunities at incredible St. Helena sites that are usually closed off.