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Heitz

Joe Heitz and his wife Alice were true pioneers of modern California winemaking when they moved to the Napa Valley in 1951. Joe earned an advanced degree in oenology from the University of California at Davis and he worked with famed winemaker Andre Tchelistcheff at Beaulieu Vineyards for several years before he and Alice bought a small winery in 1961. Over the decades the couple turned the estate into one of California’s most admired estates. Joe died in 2000 but his children continued to run the estate, making the distinctive Heitz Martha’s Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, among other highly acclaimed wines. In 2018 the estate was sold to Gaylon Lawrence Jr., a businessman whose family owns farmland throughout the Midwest and South as well as banks and industrial enterprises. Lawrence has brought in Napa wine industry veteran Robert Boyd as Heitz CEO. The estate owns 400 acres of vineyards.

1982 Heitz Bella Oaks Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  91   

1990 Heitz Bella Oaks Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

1993 Heitz Bella Oaks Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; label condition issue

WS  91   

1994 Heitz Bella Oaks Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

1994 Heitz Bella Oaks Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; depressed cork; light label condition issue

1994 Heitz Bella Oaks Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork

1996 Heitz Bella Oaks Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
CT  91.6   

1996 Heitz Bella Oaks Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

WS  92   
CT  91.6   

1996 Heitz Cabernet Sauvignon

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

1999 Heitz Cabernet Sauvignon

2016 Heitz Cabernet Sauvignon

Base neck fill

WS  91   

2018 Heitz Linda Falls Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

WA  95+    
VN  94   

1974 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

MB  *****   
RP  98   
WS  97   

1975 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

CT  93.9   
WS  90   
MB  ****   

1985 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  98   
RP  94   
JR  18.5   
MB  ****   

1985 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Base neck fill

WS  98   
RP  94   
JR  18.5   
MB  ****   

1985 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

WS  98   
RP  94   
JR  18.5   
MB  ****   

1986 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

WS  91   

1986 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

WS  91   

1986 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  91   

1987 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill

WS  92   
RP  90   

1987 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  92   
RP  90   

1988 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue

1990 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Very top shoulder fill

WS  90   

1992 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Very top shoulder fill

VN  94   
WS  93