Buehler 2016 Cabernet Sauvgnon, Napa Valley

A perpetual Best Buy, Buehler Vineyards is Napa Valley's best kept secret. John Buehler started the winery in the 1970's and has been producing stellar wines and pricing them right ever since. The grapes for this wine are sourced 30% from their hillside estate vineyard and the rest from other mature, high-quality, low yielding Napa Valley vineyards located on the valley floor. This 2016 is a blend of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Merlot. Aging is in French and American oak barrels for a total of 18 months.

James Suckling scored this 91 points saying "Hints of graphite, ripe cassis, cherries and violets all align nicely to quality cabernet here. The palate delivers a ripe and approachable core of fleshy, round plum-flavored fruit with spicy oak to close."