Here are Midwest Costco inventories (in BOTTLES) on Lot 600 Cabernet as of last week - you may want to call before you head over to make sure…Item # is 001016704:
WAREHOUSE 1021 MAPLEWOOD 12
WAREHOUSE 1074 METTAWA 117
WAREHOUSE 1087 BURNSVILLE 5
WAREHOUSE 1107 CHICAGO SOUTH LOOP 216
WAREHOUSE 1153 NORTH RIVERSIDE 270
WAREHOUSE 342 NAPERVILLE 104
WAREHOUSE 348 GLENVIEW 276
WAREHOUSE 372 COON RAPIDS 55
WAREHOUSE 378 LAKE ZURICH 74
WAREHOUSE 380 LINCOLN PARK 347
WAREHOUSE 648 MAPLE GROVE 1
I forgot to mention that Lot 600 is sold out at chwine.com but plenty of other worthy Cabernets there amongst others…if your into Pinot the Santa Rita Hills wines are fabulous.
Sorry, TX Costco’s sold out. Sorry to redirect but I am 99% certain these wines are as good if not better for more or less same price at Lot 600 ($29)…two Cabs, Lot 599 and 469, are very much worth your perusal…Lot 599 2013 Napa Cab (on sale now for $25) is from some of the best dirt in Calistoga and Lot 469 ($32) is made by my team from Stagecoach Vineyard (30%) and the Stagecoach-owned J Squared Ranch in Coombsville (70%). 599 would be richer style in warmer clime (still hillside fruit) and then Lot 469 cooler clime and bit dryer structure. You can read about both at www.chwine.com if you are interested.
Over a few drizzly days, I’ve been chewing on the 2013 Cameron Hughes ‘Lot 469’ Cabernet Sauvignon [Napa] which, as noted above, is sourced from prominent vineyards, but in small size only 600 cs. (The vineyard was not mentioned in the initial offer email nor website, but perhaps there were contractual constraints on how ‘Stagecoach’ magic could be sprinkled about in marketing). At age 11, it’s a full bodied, richly fruited, licorice and menthol inflected Big Flavor style cab, that has a sweetish note – think Junior Mints and cocoa. In another thread, Lot 469 is called out for spoofiness by Pobega (the individual, not the verb), but it doesn’t taste that way to me, today. Compared to other CH CS from the same era, it might have received filtering as it does not show the insane amount of sediment caked inside the bottles that other Lots do. Still some polite tannins though, and low acid on this 14.9% abv ‘husky section’ red. At prevailing prices, it is hard to drink Napa CS casually, midweek, thoughtlessly but at least the Father of Labradors has given that opportunity to some of us for a few years. I enjoyed this the most on the first and second night, and would slot it into that tough zone at the cusp of B+/A- depending on how much volume one likes in their red, versus complexity/range. Curiously, closed with DIAM5 rather than the NomaCorc seen in other nearby Lot #'s.