Great sale! BF BOGO-50% 
Got 1 discounted case each of: 10, 20, 24, 27.
That’s enough (60 cases) until X50 comes around……
Just in case(
) I have designated a charity for any unused wines Post Mortem.
No family members would want these beauties. 
They said they will make it happen! 
Just across the lake is:
They do many/lotsa Fund Raisers around Wine stuff.
Go figure….
Ghost block offers two Cabernets, one with a 95% Rock Cairn and the other with 100% Ghost Block. Do you recall which one you compared to?
Lot 20 is drinking great. I’ve had 2 bottles so far, both pop and pour. Plenty of round fruit, minimally tannic.
That is great to hear about X20, already drinking so well!
And to think it’s a 2024, with less than 4 months bottled. Nice!
I like your Cat photo. 
That is their Rock Cairn. The SRP is $95, also below the lot marketing notes. Perhaps Nickel and Nickel, which is also a better fit for blue chip.
Lot 7 Cabernet Sauvignon
A pleasant surprise given how young this is, showing remarkable polish for its youth.
Despite battling a lingering cold, I felt the wine cuts through with a distinctive profile: gravelly minerality and dusty earth frame classic cab notes of tobacco, cassis, and ripe blackberry. There’s an intriguing Old World structure beneath the New World fruit. something different indeed.
Already harmonious with resolved tannins, it’s drinking beautifully now but has the architecture to gain complexity. 91-92 points today, with lots of clear upside potential.
How long did you let it open up for? The community guess was Paul Hobbs, which seems to take 2+ hours in my experience for recent vintages.
Can I make just one more request from Cameron Hughes, ~ will we ever see the likes of your dN L 229 Red Mountain 2019 Mourvèdre/Syrah again in the CX style offerings?
This was the highlight wine of the four day weekend camping in the iced over hills of NE Georgia. Originally an $11 / $50 value selection which was luckily available for $8 btl during the moving day sale. A flat out 95 pointer.
I’m here begging for more Red Mountain juice. 
Local Restaurant nearby is selling this.
Alexander Valley, Cabernet, California, Daily Finds, Fall Classics, RedJS 92
92 Points, James Suckling
Cameron Hughes liked what he found so much with Cabernet fruit in the 2023 vintage, he decided to launch ‘Lot 1’ of Cam X, a new Cabernet project sourced from what he tells me are “the two biggest stars” in Alexander Valley. And because he was able to source the wine at such an affordable price during this perfect storm of quality and desperation, this inaugural cuvée checks in at an incredible $19/bottle—$17.10 on cases.
Suckling already chimed in with 92 points and noted “there’s plenty of generosity and complexity for the price.” He called the palate, “well balanced, with a rounded mouthfeel, fine-grained tannins and a soft and fruit-driven finish.” Does that sound like an under-$20 Cab to you?!? Don’t miss this one.
$26.00 Original Price Was: $26.00.$19.00Current Price Is: $19.00.
Availability: In stock
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92 Points, James Suckling
Aromas of black fruit, chocolate, red currants, dried herbs, graphite and earth. The palate is well balanced, with a rounded mouthfeel, fine-grained tannins and a soft and fruit-driven finish. There’s plenty of generosity and complexity for the price. Drink or hold.
Initial offer was $8.25 p/btl
RIPOFF! 
Fine. I caved. lot 20, 25, and 27 at these prices are too good to pass up even with whatever is in the pipeline.
Has anyone tried all the chardonnays available in the sale? Drinking a lot 4 right now and like everyone else, loving it. But sadly no longer available. Which one is that closest to it? The things I like about it are the racing acidity, not overbearing oak, lack of funk, but nonetheless complex fruit and florals (not just apples).
Good to see there’s a limit to your willpower!
I haven’t had Lot 38 yet (yet to be bottled) but would say Lot 9 and Lot 30 over Lot 11 (which felt the richest, most oaked to me). 9 more floral to me while 30 felt fruitier, but I think 30 definitely a bit nervous right now.
In any case, I’ve really enjoyed all the Cam X Chards and looking forward to more.
I believe no wines sold out on BF sale. How is that possible? How is Lot 20 still available? 150 cases available total supposedly. I had one on the way but doubled up last night (thinking it was the last evening of sale), panicking, thinking I’ll never get a Petaluma like this again this cheap. (and it’s young so why not stock up)
In the last week I’ve been responsible for 5 friends getting Lot 20 (amongst others of course). So I alone have made almost 5% of Lot 20 disappear, as have several of you on this list.
Are we on this list the only ones who know about CamX? I guess it’s early and the word is getting out, but slower than I would have thought. An advantage for we happy few certainly.
I think yes it’s concentrated here and to friends at this point. But also people who lurk and watch for guesses don’t know Vaughn Duffy and like it or not and makes no sense, but I think people legitimately don’t buy on taste as much as they buy on hype or it started as VIP or FM only, etc. I mean, look, there’s no other explanation as to how or why the last 3 pack of tech bro zin sold for $50 plus 20 shipping. That legit makes no sense. But you know what, it was a FM only offer. Cam might prefer we guess MacDonald for everything.
Like Lot 4. No obvious explanation as to why it sold out before anyone had tasted it, but of course, it was because it was TRB Platt vineyard. Even though the ABVs didn’t match up…and now, having listened to a podcast from that winemaker, they clearly pinched off lot selections that didn’t match the overlord taste profile. So that wine isn’t the wine that is sold at all on the regular market, but it went out crazy hype based on the source vineyard and underlying winemaking.
I usually don’t love The Wine Makers podcast, but this week was the interview with the Platt Vineyard winemaker. It sounds like basically the chard that made the cut for them came from Calera clones predominantly and the other clones essentially didn’t ripen to the intensity they liked. So, I’m guessing Lot 4 is really significantly different that what you’d taste with Platt Estate Chard.
Listening to that though, super informative lesson as to perhaps how a lot of these wines end up getting lot selection peeled off and sold bulked.
