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2016 Clos du Val Three Graces Red Blend

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January 14, 2024 - $81

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RATINGS

96Vinous / IWC

...stellar. Rich and unctuous, the Three Graces also has terrific freshness and plenty of structure to play off its more extroverted learnings. Dark red cherry, plum, espresso, bittersweet chocolate, rose petal and spice build as this racy, potent wine shows off its flamboyant yet polished personality.

96+ Jeb Dunnuck

...boasts a rockingly Cabernet nose of blackcurrants, tobacco, crushed rocks, lead pencil, and graphite. It's pure, has full-bodied richness, and sweet tannins, and is a profound wine.

95The Wine Advocate

...stunning black cherries, kirsch, warm plums and cassis notions with wafts of red roses, lavender, cinnamon stick, cloves and unsmoked cigars scents. Medium to full-bodied, the palate offers layers of elegant, perfumed berry components, framed with ripe, grainy tannins and culminating in a good, long, spicy finish.

95James Suckling

Super fresh and focused cassis, mulberry and black-cherry aromas and flavors. This has impressively energetic fruit on the palate with a super fresh, fine, lithe and juicy finish.

95Wine Enthusiast

...inviting aromas of freshly turned earth, violet and cassis. Dusty rock and stone play on the palate around concentrated layers of black fruit that transition to show black pepper and clove.

PRODUCER

Clos du Val

Clos du Val was founded by John Goelet, a New York businessman, in 1972 in the Stag’s Leap District of Napa Valley. Bernard Portet was the founding winemaker, and he was responsible for much of the winery’s rise in reputation in the 1970s and 1980s. He retired in 2010. The winery owns 320 acres in Stag’s Leap and Carneros, and is known for its Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Portet was among the first winemakers in the region to use Merlot to soften California Cabernet Sauvignon, and his wines were known for their elegance and finesse. Today Clos du Val’s winemaker is John Clews, and the winery continues to earn acclaim for its wine. Wine & Spirits Magazine named it Winery of the Year in 2010. The winery’s signature wine is the Stag’s Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon.

VINTAGE

2016 Clos du Val Three Graces Red Blend