I haven’t tasted this wine in a coons age but I suspect you are just encountering a young '23 napa cabernet…whats great about the vintage is the extended hangtime and relatively cool weather lead to ripeness while maintaining acidity. We didn’t add any acid and the filtration wouldn’t make it more acidic. Here are the stats:
TA: 5.13 g/L
pH: 3.76
VA: .61 g/L
Malic: less than .1 g/L
Lactic: .76 g/L
These are all pretty much right up the middle for a '23 napa cabernet.
I should add that palate perception changes from day to day based on mood, food eaten prior to tasting, noisy or food odor packed restaurants, etc. so your perception of Lot 25 that day may have been colored or it could simply be that the wine has just 4 months in bottle and still settling into the bottle…that is quite likely for a monster '23 cab like Lot 25.
Well, the road to hell is paved with good intentions . I had resolved to keep my powder dry and not go crazy again ordering Camjuice but then came today’s single bottle offer and I’m in for a mixed case. One fly in the ointment is that the closest UPS store to me is not a shipping option on the CamX platform, used to be on the old one. I’ve contacted support to see if it can be added.
That’s a Bingo! I was in fact completely unaware of the new venture until my Palo Alto friend emailed me this last week:
"Picking up some stuff at Mountain View Costco yesterday I was verbally assaulted by a large man in the wine area who wanted to know if I liked Pinot. I fumbled some non-committal answer which started a conversation just as he wanted. He was flogging the above mentioned wine at $8 a bottle, as well as a Cabernet of the same branding. He said if I bought a bottle I’d be back for a case tomorrow. Then he offered to sell me a watch and then confessed that he didn’t actually have a watch for sale but that he did do standup on the weekends.
He was right. I went back for a case this morning. As you surely know this is the new incarnation of De Negoce of Cameron Hughes."
Decided to get 3 of each: Lot 6 Rose, Lot 13 Meritage, Lot 16 Syrah, Lot 32 Stag’s Leap (more)
The first three I haven’t had and don’t own. Anyone had the Lot 13 Meritage (the WB guess was water witch). And 32 I have enjoyed several times, including the holidays.
We went for Lot 5 x3, Lot 7 x1, Lot 9 x1, Lot 13 x3, Lot 15 x1, Lot 20 x2, Lot 28 x1.
Most are tasters with Lot 5, 9 & 20 as refills.
We very much appreciate the single bottle offer, Cam
New Year’s Day and I’m in need of a good white varietal pairing for my wife’s lunch preparation of collard greens and cornbread (this I think meets all FDA daily recommended nutritional requirements). Recommended are Chardonnay (and no, I’m not willing to open Lot 4 Sonoma Coast Chard yet for this), Chenin Blanc and Viognier of which I do not have available. Cameron, is there a CAM-X Chenin Blanc or Viognier on the horizon?
I may have to resort to an older dN Pinot Noir for today’s occasion. Best to All with whatever wine you have with your New Year’s Day cornbread.
Yes, Cam-X Lot 4 Chardonnay was only $12+ per bottle, but no longer available, ~ therefore I’ll hold these out for at least a year. Thanks to Courtney Benham, I did find two bottles remaining of dN’s nice Lot 445 Paso Robles 2023 Albarino for the New Year’s Day luncheon occasion.
Taking bets on what the next Cam X future offer will be. I’m thinking that he will begin to get us ready for summer, so a 2024 Sauvignon Blanc, maybe RRV?
Happy New Year’s to you, Mr. Bauer, and to all of the many enthusiasts on this thread.
I recently had the pleasure of tasting the X Lot 4 SC Chard and it is very delicious and accessible right now, but I plan to hide it from my Chard-guzzling sweetheart for a couple more years.
Last night we opened the last bottle of dN 73 RRV Chard 2019 and it was exquisite. Even though they are from different areas, have very different oak treatment and differ in alcohol by over 1%, the two wines resemble each other in flavor profile, but I’m not able to describe it. Burgundian? Minerality? Citrus blossoms? The 73 was a touch more round/viscous in texture & more complex in taste.
Anyway, I’m sad to say farewell to 73 while looking forward to 11 more bottles of Lot 4.
Cheers!
they were just the first to respond but they also moved more quickly, I believe, because they were intrigued. As well, they will look at a producer portfolio all at once versus WE, WS, and Jeb, etc. who ask producers to send samples whenever they cover a particular region. We have submitted to Jeb and will be sending samples to WS and WE for their upcoming regional reports. Cheers! CH
I think source is Pisoni. Their “Lucy” gamay noir is from SLH, fermented in open-top tanks, has received mid-90s scores, and according to this, at least as of 2018 they produced at least some wines at a custom crush in Sonoma. The only issue is there is no single vineyard program from them I can find. Perhaps it is to-be-released, or it was ‘vinified for’ a program that they didn’t like enough to sell under their own label.
. I had resolved to keep my powder dry and not go crazy again ordering Camjuice but then came today’s single bottle offer and I’m in for a mixed case. One fly in the ointment is that the closest UPS store to me is not a shipping option on the CamX platform, used to be on the old one. I’ve contacted support to see if it can be added.
