That is a good guess. Cam said it was a built for a $130 price point but the Venge Igneous is $90. Who knows it could still be that wine. Did anyone else catch the this is “BOOM BOOM” stuff for sure comment? Is that a hint from the dN days?
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I did some research and could not find Mr. Boom Boom making a Calistoga Cabernet in any of his brands, which is sort of surprising.
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This cost me, bought a second case.
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Same here - glad others went down the Boom Boom rabbit hole and came up empty.
doesn’t really fit with old family but otherwise kinda lines up?
As I have said many times, all of these “discount wine outlets” (for lack of a better term) take liberties with their descriptions of the secret wines they offer. CAM, Wine Spies, Last Bottle, WTSO, etc……I’m not suggesting they are lying, they just wordsmith things so the reader gets an idea of what they are offering, but they can’t be 100% accurate, or they might as well just tell us the name of the source winery. So in this case, $90 or $130 is in the ballpark……
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I think, suffice to say, it’s probably coming from Kenefick Ranch. There’s a few producers that source there including the family winery that runs it. Price points are all over. Funny enough, B Cellars, also Venge (which I think he partly owns), produces a bottling that is right in that neighborhood of price. Anyway, looks like another ridiculous deal.
My original guess before removing was Venge. I thought it aligned with their bone ash bottling.
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Could certainly be Bone Ash, but Bone Ash is an estate vineyard to Venge and I “think” Cam would have mentioned estate, but maybe he couldn’t per the contract.
Thats true. It was cut with petit verdot so that may take the estate bottling label away. I notice Cam says the cab was “produced for” a $130 bottling.
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Totally agree, but I do think some of the art of sleuthing these things out is figuring out how the description has been manipulated. For example, “built for $130 price point” is classic wine discounter speak. Built for $130 does not mean it has ever sold for $130! But when Cam says “this exact wine sells for $75” I believe him that there is an MSRP out there somewhere saying $75. Could it be offered to the club members and sell out for $50 and never really sell anywhere $75 and therefore not have any evidence of a $75 price tag attached? Totally yes. Could it be the barrel of this single vineyard designate that the winery thought was subpar and decided not to bottle? Also yes. But I have enough faith in Cam (and Wine Access and Last Bottle) that they are not telling outright lies, and in that I hope there is enough signal in the noise to figure out what the actual wine is.
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