2023 Spottswoode Cabernet Sauvignon Lyndenhurst
Regular price $109.98
95Â James Suckling -Â A ripe, supple and refined red with flair, showing layers of black and blue fruit, violets, graphite, boysenberries, spices and ink. Lovely purity and juiciness bring early-drinking appeal. The palate is smooth and textural with fine-boned tannins and a luscious finish. A delightful representation of many AVAs across Napa Valley, from sourced and estate-grown fruit, including all five red Bordeaux varieties.
94 Jeb Dunnuck - The second wine of this flagship estate, the 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Lyndenhurst checks in as 75.4% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15.9% Merlot, and smaller doses of Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, and Malbec, aged 20 months in 59% new oak. Crème de cassis, graphite, crushed stone, and spicy wood notes all shine here, and it's medium to full-bodied, with a beautiful mid-palate, ripe tannins, and a beautiful finish.
93 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - Bottled about a month prior to my visit, the 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Lyndenhurst boasts lovely blackberry fruit with a cool nuance—it's fresh and gently herbal, not really minty but approximating it. Still velvety but more taut than the 2022, this medium- to full-bodied effort is less sexy but more classically structured, finishing with terrific length. For consumers looking for an ageable Cab at a realistic price, it would be hard to beat this one.
Shipping Policy
- Unless your delivery address is on the West Coast, we strongly discourage you from selecting “Ground Service” as your shipping method. During the winter and summer months, weather conditions (temperature) and longer delivery times can often result in the spoilage of your order. It doesn’t make sense to invest in fine wines and then take the chance of ruining them due environmental factors during transit (faster and safer delivery generally isn’t much more expensive). We don’t make an additional profit on accelerated delivery, but we frequently recommend faster shipping options to our customers outside the West Coast.
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- During periods of extreme weather, we attempt to ship wines at the beginning of each week in order to get shipments to you before the weekend. This is because we have no control over the temperature conditions at our freight carriers’ warehouses. The result may be that your shipment doesn’t go out the day that you place an order.
- We ship by Fedex or Fedex Ground. Our prices include packaging materials. Insurance may be available for an additional charge.
- Vintage Wine Merchants, Inc. will arrange for shipment on behalf of the buyer, to an address specified by the buyer, provided that Vintage Wine Merchants, Inc. in its sole judgment believes that such shipment will not subject Vintage Wine Merchants, Inc. to the risk of any sort of legal action or other harm. If a buyer lives in a state where the direct shipment of wine by Vintage Wine Merchants, Inc. violates the law, we suggest that the buyer provide an alternative address in another state or have their wine shipped to a third-party storage facility in a direct shipping-friendly state.
- Various states impose limitations on the quantity of alcoholic beverages that may be purchased and brought into their jurisdiction by a purchaser from another state without requiring the purchaser, a seller or shipper to possess certain licenses or permits. Vintage Wine Merchants, Inc. does not, as a condition of sale, assume any obligation nor bear any responsibility whatsoever for applying or obtaining any permits or licenses. Therefore, we recommend that you investigate the possibility of such limitations, and determine the manner in which alcoholic beverages shall be brought into your state from California, so as to comply with all of your state’s requirements.
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List Updated 2/1/2023
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Vintage Wine Merchants
377 Santana Row, Suite 1135
San Jose, CA 95128
408-260-1115
