The 2021 Lail J Daniel Cabernet
We are delighted to offer 100-point Lail J Daniel Cabernet Sauvignon 2021. The product of a great vintage and Napa royalty in the form of Robin Lail and Philippe Melka, this is a pitch-perfect gem.
There is unbeatable pedigree here. Robin’s great uncle founded Inglenook Estate, and her father mentored some of Napa’s top talents, including Robert Mondavi. Robin herself co-founded Dominus with Christian Moueix and Merryvale with Bill Harlan before having her own project. Winemaker Philippe Melka has been there since the start and has a CV spanning time at Haut-Brion, Cheval Blanc, Hundred Acres and Dominus, to name a few. Together, they produce some of Napa’s most compelling wines, with the J Daniel one of the flagships.
This 2021 has a perfect score from the Wine Advocate’s Joe Czerwinski, who describes it as a “full-bodied beauty” and “complex, harmonious and elegant, yet it’s enough of its place that it could only come from Napa Valley”.
100 points Joe Czerwinski (Wine Advocate)
“Lail’s 2021 J. Daniel Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon blends lots from several high-end vineyards, including Heimark (Calistoga), Vine Hill Ranch (Oakville) and Steltzner (Stags Leap), plus Lail’s own Mole Hill on Howell Mountain. It’s an exciting wine, starting from the pulse-quickening aromas of raspberries and black cherries tinged with dark chocolate. In the mouth, this full-bodied beauty is richly concentrated, with a sensuous texture somewhere between silky and velvety, while the softly dusty finish shows terrific length and a spine-tingling hint of licorice. To reduce this wine to deceptively simple yet hard-to-pin-down words, it’s complex, harmonious and elegant, yet it’s enough of its place that it could only come from Napa Valley.” (Jan 2024)
Please find below the wines we are currently offering
Vintage | Wine | Pack Size | Price | Status In Bond wines have had no UK Duty or VAT paid on them. If IB wines are purchased for storage in a bonded warehouse or for export - no UK Duty or VAT will be payable. If IB wines are purchased for delivery to a UK address - UK Duty and VAT is required to be paid before the delivery can take place. Duty Paid wines have been removed from the Bond and UK Duty has already been paid on them. Regardless of whether DP wines are purchased for delivery or storage, there will be no additional duty charged, but VAT will be payable (except when directly exported). | Avail. Immediate wines are available for immediate delivery, storage or collection as per your instructions. Future Arrival wines are not yet available for delivery, storage or collection. Our team will get in touch as soon as the wines become physical with us and will arrange to deliver, store or collect the wines as per your instructions. En Primeur wines are maturing in barrel at the producer, and will be available in due course. Our team will get in touch as soon as the wines become physical with us and will arrange to deliver, store or collect the wines as per your instructions. | Qty | Buy | |
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 | £1,325.00(excl. UK Duty & VAT)£1,615.56(incl. UK Duty & VAT) | In Bond | Immediate | 2 |
