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2021 Rivers-Marie M-Bar Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon

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August 3, 2025 - $187

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RATINGS

96The Wine Advocate

...boasts amazing purity of dark fruit—think black cherries and cassis—with just hint of vanillin oak. Full-bodied, this is ripe, sexy stuff, supple and easy to drink...

96Wine Spectator

This is absolutely loaded with gorgeous fruit in the form of a seamless wave of boysenberry, açaí, plum and mulberry flavors that glides through. Marries heft and density with beautiful polish before ending with a harmonious mix of melted black licorice, espresso crema and iris notes amid the fruit.

96Decanter Magazine (points)

...an excellent pedigree...nose of black-toned fruits and savoury wild herb spices. Intense and intensely concentrated blackberry and cherry fruits on the palate find harmony with salty minerals. It is a succulent wine, anchored by robust tannins and livened by racy acidity, which focuses the wine. Long and intense and with balanced tension.

96Jeb Dunnuck

...ripe, plush, yet remarkably pure...offering classic Napa black and blue fruit as well as spring flowers, savory herbs, tobacco, and hints of black olive. It's pure, balanced, full-bodied, and incredibly satisfying.

94Vinous / IWC

Dark red fruit, gravel, cedar, tobacco, menthol and incense are some of the many notes that build as the 2021 gains volume into its beautifully persistent finish.

PRODUCER

Rivers-Marie

Rivers-Marie is a boutique producer of Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir and Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon started a few years ago by by Thomas Rivers Brown, a Napa winemaker and winemaking consultant who has worked for such clients as Schrader and Turley. He and his partner Genevieve Marie Welsh work with vineyard owners to secure grapes. Their wines, produced in very small quantities, are generally available only by mailing list. In 2009 Eric Asimov of the New York Times called Rivers-Marie Pinot Noir ‘intense yet beautifully balanced, with lively acidity that makes them refreshing.”

REGION

United States, California, Napa Valley, Oakville

Oakville AVA is one of the two or three most prestigious appellations in the United States. Located in the heart of Napa Valley, its 5,000 vineyard acres produce some of the world’s most acclaimed Cabernet Sauvignon, including such California “cult” Cabs as Screaming Eagle and Harlan Estate. Before those boutique producers rose to fame in the 1990s, Oakville was already renowned as home to Robert Mondavi, Opus One and Groth Vineyards, among others. Along with the famous wineries, there are premier vineyards in this AVA, including Martha’s Vineyard and To Kalon Vineyard. To Kalon was first planted in 1868 by H.W. Crabb, one of California’s first viticultural researchers, and he named the vineyard after the ancient Greek phrase for “most beautiful.” Though many grapes can be successfully grown in Oakville, Cabernet Sauvignon is king. Merlot and Chardonnay are also frequently planted. Oakville Cabs are prized for their richness, complexity and weight. Oakville was designated as an AVA in 1993.

TYPE

Red Wine, Cabernet Sauvignon

One of the most widely grown grape varieties, it can be found in nearly every wine growing region. A cross between Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc. It’s a hardy vine that produces a full-bodied wine with high tannins and great aging potential.

VINTAGE

2021 Rivers-Marie M-Bar Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon