Father's Day Gift Set 750 ml

2019 No Brainer Merlot Dry Creek Valley

It takes a lot of chutzpah to name your wine “No Brainer.” But when you combine Anna and Mario Monticelli’s expertise—both worked directly under 100-point legend Phillipe Melka, Anna making $600 Bryant Family Cabernet, Mario as Melka’s right-hand man—with prime Dry Creek Valley Merlot, you can call your own shot. This bottle is the result of great fruit given a no-expense-spared treatment in the cellar, and it shows in the glass—Jeb Dunnuck declared it has “tons of charm, and would be a heck of a house red.”

2022 Kukeri Wines Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

Located not far from Opus One, the vineyards on Money Road’s east side rub shoulders with the Groth Reserve Block that produced California's first 100-point wine. The area is also home to vineyards held by the likes of Swanson, Saddleback, and Laird. We’re talking ground zero for classic Oakville Cabernet, and it’s where winemaker Petar Kirilov’s outstanding 2022 Kukeri Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville was grown. Bold and muscular yet sensual and elegant, it’s gorgeously broad and firm, with black cherry and plum wrapped in graphite minerals and a stern tannic structure that leads to a long finish.

2017 Casalcomignoli by Carlin de Paolo Barbaresco Piedmont

Barbaresco is synonymous with big-name, big-money wines: Collectibles like Gaja fetch $300+, under-$60 bottles are rare… and under-$40 bottles are like hens’ teeth, which is why we jumped at the chance to claim as much as we could of the 2017 Casalcomignoli by Carlin de Paolo. From the producer behind our #1 Piedmontese wine of all time, it’s a weeknight Barbaresco—something we can’t advertise very often—entering its prime.