02/06/2022
World's End Crossfire Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Georges III 2016
TOO BIG. This is too big for a . I’m not ready. I just woke up. CABERNET COLLECTORS, Beckstoffer Vineyards fans, Rutherford fans, we have IT.As long as it lasts anyway…wow!!!
Barely opening my eyes, and we have a planet-smashing sized colossal beast of a deal, great vintage, one of the great vineyards of Napa Valley, a wine many of you know (and likely the last for the foreseeable future) and love, CRAVE, even, perhaps, at this….this….silly, silly price. It’s EXTREMELY rare to see GIII cabs less than at least $125. This is…$$$ OFF!! Madness! AHHHH!
Fun facts: This wine is 100% Beckstoffer Georges III Vineyard in Rutherford (boom!), and is named after a Stevie Ray Vaughan song (Bordeaux legend Jonathan Maltus names all his Napa wines after classic rock songs).
This really is an astounding buy (though there is not a lot of it, sadly). For the unfamiliar, World's End is the uber-high-end Napa project from Bordeaux winemaking legend Jonathan Maltus (who has made countless 95-100 point wines with his Chateau Le Dome, Chateau Mazerat, and others - Google him). They are for those of you who dig the unabashed modern style -- and wines that cost way, WAY more. This deal is just flat-out amazing!! Rich, dark, brooding, powerful cabernet, typical of the great vintage and leviathan-sized juice --- concentrated blue fruit, dense, hedonistic with baked huckleberries, chai spice, espresso…lip-smacking French oak barrel notes, mouth-coating texture, finishing with cocoa dust. Anyway, it's powerhouse Napa goodness all the way (and from this classic vineyard!), and it is, we say again, with much EMPHASIS, a LIT little deal. This seems to be one of the very few World’s End’s that never got rated -- but really, who cares. Trust your man wine merchant, this is BIG TIME! You will love it!
Collectors...this is also one to cellar --- will last 15-20 years!! WOW!! Please hurry is all that is left to say!!