2017 Promontory Estate | Oakville, Napa Valley California 750ml

In the early 1980s while hiking along Oakville's southwestern ridge, H. William Harlan discovered an isolated territory. The hidden expanse - ancient and untamed - moved him deeply, but remained elusive until the Harlan family finally captured it in 2008. As the second generation explored and worked with the land, they began to make discoveries of their own. At the core of this wild terrain, they found a powerful geologic convergence, which had shaped its steep, rugged topography, and created the conditions for an altogether exotic winegrowing environment. Over time they found that the dramatic landscape - just beyond the edge of the known - would slowly change them, and ultimately inspire a new endeavor: Promontory. | Promontory Estate

Showing consistently, the 2017 Promontory has to be one of the greatest 2017s from Napa out there. Showing the full-bodied, elegant style of the vintage, it offers a beautiful perfume of ripe red and black currants, smoked tobacco, savory dried herbs, and scorched earth. It's certainly accessible today, with ripe, integrated tannins, yet it has the balance and concentration to evolve for another two decades. | 97 points, Jeb Dunnuck for jebdunnuck.com