Lone Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon Single Vineyard Estate Mountain Sonoma County 2019

We’re breaking records today, folks! The highest elevation cabernet sauvignon in all of Sonoma – at a Howell Mountain-esque 2,200 feet – for UNDER $20?! That’s sure to fly…but…95 POINTS too?!?!

See YA!!!

Seriously – check out now, ‘cause I can’t promise any will still be on our shelves by the time you finish reading. Ok, disclaimer presented…ignore at your own risk. LET’S GO! Single vineyard cabernet sauvignon, in one of the most remote and stunningly beautiful spots in all of Sonoma (and that’s saying something!) we give you…LONE EAGLE! It might not be screaming, but at the cray-cray price of only $19 – you sure will be! 95 points for this young pup of a producer means that you’ll want to grab a TON now – and brag to your friends over the next decade about how you were there first – before the winery’s status (and undoubtedly, their prices) EXPLODED! Then, raise a glass to Last Bottle – and we’ll call it a finder’s fee for bringing this MONSTROUS deal to the people!

The incredible 2019 vintage, the stunning bouquet of pastis, and kirsch, wild herbs, crushed granite, fresh-out-the-oven blackberry pie…YES! Wickersham Vineyard is the magical island in the sky that this gloriously inky and meaty beast calls home – tucked between the Rockpile and Sonoma Coast AVA, this is a cool site, above the fog, with long warm days, cooling Pacific Ocean kisses, and plenty of California sunshine. The proximity to the coast and the meager soils up at an extremely high elevation gives this beauty of a Sonoma cab a combination of Bordeaux-like tobacco, and graphite coolness, with the rich and beguiling ripe fruit depth of Napa’s top mountain sites. Definitely recommend a decant, with a serious James Bond-worthy shake and you’ll be blown away by how this blossoms! I took the remnant of the bottle home and two days later it was really singing its fine mountain tune. Cool stuff, no question. To have it all at our INCONCEIVABLE price...welp, I did say we’re breaking records, right? 95 POINTS, good people! Cabernet lovers – prepare to SWOON!

While it lasts, of course!

** My Italian post-festival-depression was hitting hard last night on the flight and ride back home…right up until my pup greeted me at the door with hyper-wiggles, and my better half handed me a bowl of Bolognese. Reminded me of a saying heard at my favorite Irish castle – “In order to return, you first have to leave.” **