Clos Du Val Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2024 (375ml) *

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon tends toward power and structure, and this 2024 from Clos Du Val leans fully into that mold. It is a young, serious bottling built on the region's dark-fruited intensity, the kind of wine made to reward patience rather than instant gratification.

Expect a dense, muscular pour, with heavy beams of tannin wrapped around a core of blue and black fruit. Graphite, leather, incense, tobacco and dried herbs all thread through, giving the wine as much savory complexity as fruit weight. It reads as structured and ambitious, a young Cabernet that overdelivers on its promise and should settle and open with time in the cellar.