2017 Hoopes Family Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville 750 ml

Sourced from the Hoopes family’s priceless 10-acre piece of land in one of the most coveted spots in the Valley—across Highway 29 from To Kalon—this Oakville Cabernet is one of the great bargains in Napa. It, just like the very first Hoopes-branded bottles, comes from the site that Spencer Hoopes purchased in 1981 and planted in 1983. For 15 years, the family sold all their Cabernet grapes, supplying some of the area’s most iconic wineries. Finally, in 1999, they decided to make their own Cabernet, and it quickly became the quality-benchmark it is today.

“This is the wine that smells like home to me,” says Lindsay Hoopes, Spencer’s daughter and the winery’s “Alpha Dog,” of the estate Cab. “This is what Cabernet from Oakville should be.” Powerful and hedonistic, lush and layered and built on well-kit tannins, it’s a phenomenal bottle that does its provenance proud.