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2016 Quintessa, Rutherford
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Start Your Wine Collection with 2016 Quintessa, Rutherford
Begin your portfolio with a prestigious wine that has a history of growth.- Enjoy fully managed, secure storage facilities with insurance coverage.
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Why We're Buying
The greatest wines consistently express the uniqueness of their terroir. For Quintessa, that means using small plots to preserve the character of its vineyard. Every plot is individually farmed, harvested, and vinified. This meticulous winemaking ensures that the terroir takes centerstage with each release. The 2016 Quintessa was an instant classic. As Wine Access put it, "If Quintessa weren't already a Napa Valley benchmark, their 2016 Proprietary Red would make it one." The cabernet sauvignon-dominant blend features ripe fruit, luscious texture, and a tantalizing aromatic profile. With a built-to-age structure, this gem should only improve over the next three decades. The Final Sip: Arguably Quintessa's finest wine to date, Jeb Dunnuck called it "a quintessential, rich, elegant Napa Bordeaux blend."
Critics Scores
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Very deep purple-black in color, it comes bounding out of the glass like a pedigree pup with exuberant notions of crème de cassis, warm blueberries and black cherries with hints of redcurrants, kirsch, candied violets, crushed rocks, cigar box and fallen leaves plus a waft of truffles. Full, rich and beautifully laced with layers of floral notes and fragrant earth, the profound black and blue fruits build slowly in the mouth, achieving great energy and depth with a beautiful velvety frame, finishing long and perfumed.
Jeb Dunnuck
This inky purple colored 2016 offers a perfumed, complex bouquet of sweet crème de cassis, Asian spices, lead pencil, and cedarwood. Full-bodied and plenty powerful, it shines even more for its flawless balance, polished tannins, and great finish. This is a quintessential, rich, elegant Napa Bordeaux blend to enjoy over the coming two decades or more.
James Suckling
Phenomenal aromas of crushed berries, forest fruit, mushrooms and iron. Medium to full body, with layers of soft and refined tannins that follow through to a beautiful finish. Extremely long and refined. This shows depth and structure with balance and harmony. Hard not to open the bottle now and drink it, but it appears to be closing down now.