But, as always, there’s some leeway with what we can disclose. We would shout the source winery’s name from the mountaintops if it didn’t mean breaching our NDA and inviting the kind of fines that would force us to close the business. This is a show-stopper, and the reason is quite simple. Tightly packed but super-fine tannins add an intricate and layered structure to this full-bodied Cabernet. The first sip delivers bold blackberry and blueberry flavors, while the next reveals pie spices, licorice, and touches of damp earth as the wine glides across the palate. The 2018 reveals aromas of blackcurrant, ripe plum, raspberry, violets, mocha, and lavishly expensive French oak and cedar, similar to wines that cost ten times the price. But the surplus grapes we nabbed came at a comparable price to the previous vintage, and that allowed us to maintain last year’s Radio Silence pricing while delivering the pinnacle of quality and taste. If you’re not on the source winery’s list, you might find a bottle of their wine here or there in the world’s finest retail establishments or among the pages of the world’s greatest restaurant wine lists.Īt retail, you’d pay between $500-$1,500 (per bottle). This one here is one of the best wines we’ve ever had the privilege of making.
“This one here,” we chuckled to ourselves. This one here,” he said, lifting his glass of Radio Silence to us. It happened in 2016, and 2001, and before that, it was 1984. I think about it now and again when a newer vintage takes me back there. You won’t read about it anywhere because there weren’t any critics around to jot it all down, but 1969 was a cool year in Napa, with generous sunshine, and the wines turned out marvelous. “It was about 73 degrees, dipped down to maybe 55 at night. He’d been working in a vineyard that day and remembered it vividly. We hadn’t brought it up, but an octogenarian friend with whom we were sharing a glass of this 2018 Radio Silence Cabernet Sauvignon had mentioned it. That’s how long the Apollo 11 astronauts went radio-silent when they sped around the dark side of the moon back in 1969, a few revolutions before they made their heralded landing.
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