2023 Chappellet 'Mountain Cuvee' Proprietary Red Napa Valley
A bold expression of Napa Valley’s mountain fruit, the 2023 Mountain Cuvée is Chappellet’s signature blend of Bordeaux varietals, anchored by estate fruit from Pritchard Hill and top-tier vineyards like Stagecoach, Broken Rock, Sugarloaf, and Murray Ranch. Crafted for immediate enjoyment, it bursts with ripe blackberry, dark cherry, and cocoa, wrapped in supple tannins and a kiss of sweet oak. Five decades of mountain winemaking show in every polished sip.
Drink now, drink often—grab your stash while it lasts.
If you asked us for our list of Napa Valley wineries currently making the highest quality, most complete, most consistent, most interesting, most ageworthy wines for the money, Chappellet Winery would be at the top. Consider all the metrics: track record, intrinsic quality, taste of the soil, availability, quality-price rapport, freshness, and visceral excitement. Is this the finest winery, top-to-bottom, in the Napa Valley? Why are the wines so good? First, take a great terroir: volcanic terraces high on Pritchard Hill that were first planted in 1882. It’s no accident that Colgin, Continuum, and Bryant Family set up shop in the neighborhood. Then we have 47 years of accumulated knowledge from some of the best winemaking talent the valley has ever seen: Philip Togni, Joe Cafaro, Tony Soter, Cathy Corison and finally Philip Corallo-Titus, who has been at the winemaking helm since 1990. And finally there’s the huge Chappellet family, dedicated as a team to farm great grapes and make superb wines since 1968.