2015 and 2019 Selah Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon
Adventures Of A Black Belt Sommelier
A Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon which receives 100 points from me!
>> Welcome back to adventures of a black belt, so many, and then in incredible coincidence, the day after I returned from my trip to Napa Valley, a friend of mine invited me to a private wine tasting at his home of a Napa Valley winery. It's a winery that you've probably never heard of. It's called Ceyla Vineyard, S-E-L-A-H. They only make 250 cases of wine a year, so unless you're really, really knowledgeable about Napa Valley wineries, this is not one that's probably on your radar screen. It's on Howell Mountain. I have to be honest, I'm predisposed to love the swineries of wines because the owner, Joe Blanton, was born in Nashville, I wasn't born there, but I grew up there. He played high school baseball in Franklin, Kentucky, which is a small town on the border, Tennessee border, and of course, my family, it's all from Bowling Green, Kentucky, which is a short drive northeast of there. Then of course, it was a long time, very successful major league baseball pitcher. Of course, I was a high school baseball coach for several years. When I met him, I said, "We're actually doppelgangers for each other," because those three facts and then the fact that I just came home from Napa Valley yesterday, we could have been on the same flight, we weren't, but we could easily have been on the same flight from from San Francisco to St. Paul. That being said, so I'm predisposed to love his wines because of our kind of incredible connection, a coincidental connection that way, but I tasted the 2015 and 2019 vintages. They are archetypal, a how amount, and cavernous, they are, which means they're very concentrated, very masculine, very intense, very tannic, when young, powerful, powerful, cavernous, so many of them, they're also, you can only buy them on their mailing list. If you like Napa Valley, cavernous, if you like, Alabama, and cavernous, so many of them, much has done how a mountain, I'd suggest getting on their mailing list so that you can buy some of their wines, because I think the both vintages that I tasted at 400-point wines about as good, really, about as good as anything I tasted on my trip to Napa Valley. Now I didn't, I didn't visit any, now, how amount, and winery, so nothing I tasted while I was there was really exactly like these wines, because they are very, very kind of how amount and E, but they are, they are, they are the equal of any wines I tasted on my trip there, including Richmond, Bello, and Staxseed, Casa 23, and Shafer Hill side select. They're just made a whole lot smaller quantities, they're going to be harder to find, I just looked on their, on their website, they, they only cost, it only cost $150 a bottle, which is not inexpensive, but the other ones I just mentioned are twice that. So Sala, S-E-L-A-H, vineyards, how amount and Cabernet, so we know, if you can snag a couple of the 200, couple bottles of the 250 case production, I guarantee you'll be very glad you did, they're, they're very, very special wines, especially considering they're from a winery that until last week I'd never even heard of, didn't know it existed, didn't know Joe Blanton made wine, so there you go, even at 72 years old, 50 years experience, you learn something every day about wine, thanks for tuning in for Adventures of Life, well, so may I, we appreciate your interest and support, more than you can know. [BLANK_AUDIO]