Monte Rosso is the most historic and respected Cabernet vineyard in Sonoma County. The wines made from the property's prized grapes make some of the best wines each and every year, and we have just managed to score an incredible deal on a 92-point Cabernet sourced from Monte Rosso... and it's over 40% lower than our regular price!
The Mount Peak story begins more than a century ago at the celebrated Monte Rosso Vineyard. Built in 1886, Mount Peak was a marvel of innovation. The three-story, gravity-flow winery was built from the rocks pulled from the vineyard. It quickly emerged as one of California's top ten producers, but the start of Prohibition in 1920 forced the winery to shutter its doors. Like many of California's pioneering wineries, Mount Peak was abandoned to the elements, a true ghost winery never to reopen. For decades the winery lays silent, as wild vines and towering fig trees seek to reclaim it stone by stone.
Over 130 years later, only the ruins of the winery remain, yet the vineyard's still-thriving vines have persisted-standing silent above the fog line, occupying the space between earth and sky. The ghost winery and the world-class Monte Rosso Vineyard are perched at nearly 1,300 feet along the spine of the Mayacamas Mountains, just straddling Napa and Sonoma valleys. Monte Rosso's steep hillsides, robed in bright red, iron-rich soils, are set against a dramatic backdrop of manzanita and madrone, under the expanse of piercing blue skies. Most of the Monte Rosso vineyard is dry-farmed, and it's now entirely certified organic!
Mount Peak has now been revived, and is comprised entirely of grapes from this famed Monte Rosso Vineyard. Mount Peak is inspired by this great place, and the new owners pay tribute to the extraordinary winery that once stood there by capturing its enduring spirit in the wine.
Mount Peak's "Sentinel" Cabernet Sauvignon is named for the shield-shaped block that pays a watchful eye to the entrance to Monte Rosso Vineyard. It's a muscular and intense wine with rich, deep tannins and mouthfilling, concentrated fruit. Audrey Frick (who writes for the respected JebDunnuck.com) reviewed this at 92 points! She writes this wine is "full-bodied", along with "black plum, cocoa, and espresso, with generous fruit up front".
Mountain-grown fruit does not come cheap, and this wine typically sells for $52.99, yet it's worth every penny. However, we have managed to snag a deal on the Mount Peak Cabernet, and for a short time, we can offer this 92-pointer for just $29.95. That's over 40% off our regular price! Not much of this wine was made, and at this new attractive price, we don't expect it to be around for long!
JEB DUNNUCK 92 POINTS - "Taking on an inky red/black hue, the 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Sentinel is ripe with blackcurrants, menthol, and toasted cedar. Full-bodied and packed with fruit and earth, it offers youthful primary fruit of black plum, cocoa, and espresso, with generous fruit up front and through the midpalate before revealing ripe but slightly drying tannins on the finish. It's a solid wine from this vintage to drink 2025-2035."
The Mount Peak story begins more than a century ago at the celebrated Monte Rosso Vineyard. Built in 1886, Mount Peak was a marvel of innovation. The three-story, gravity-flow winery was built from the rocks pulled from the vineyard. It quickly emerged as one of California's top ten producers, but the start of Prohibition in 1920 forced the winery to shutter its doors. Like many of California's pioneering wineries, Mount Peak was abandoned to the elements, a true ghost winery never to reopen. For decades the winery lays silent, as wild vines and towering fig trees seek to reclaim it stone by stone.
Over 130 years later, only the ruins of the winery remain, yet the vineyard's still-thriving vines have persisted-standing silent above the fog line, occupying the space between earth and sky. The ghost winery and the world-class Monte Rosso Vineyard are perched at nearly 1,300 feet along the spine of the Mayacamas Mountains, just straddling Napa and Sonoma valleys. Monte Rosso's steep hillsides, robed in bright red, iron-rich soils, are set against a dramatic backdrop of manzanita and madrone, under the expanse of piercing blue skies. Most of the Monte Rosso vineyard is dry-farmed, and it's now entirely certified organic!
Mount Peak has now been revived, and is comprised entirely of grapes from this famed Monte Rosso Vineyard. Mount Peak is inspired by this great place, and the new owners pay tribute to the extraordinary winery that once stood there by capturing its enduring spirit in the wine.
Mount Peak's "Sentinel" Cabernet Sauvignon is named for the shield-shaped block that pays a watchful eye to the entrance to Monte Rosso Vineyard. It's a muscular and intense wine with rich, deep tannins and mouthfilling, concentrated fruit. Audrey Frick (who writes for the respected JebDunnuck.com) reviewed this at 92 points! She writes this wine is "full-bodied", along with "black plum, cocoa, and espresso, with generous fruit up front".
Mountain-grown fruit does not come cheap, and this wine typically sells for $52.99, yet it's worth every penny. However, we have managed to snag a deal on the Mount Peak Cabernet, and for a short time, we can offer this 92-pointer for just $29.95. That's over 40% off our regular price! Not much of this wine was made, and at this new attractive price, we don't expect it to be around for long!
JEB DUNNUCK 92 POINTS - "Taking on an inky red/black hue, the 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Sentinel is ripe with blackcurrants, menthol, and toasted cedar. Full-bodied and packed with fruit and earth, it offers youthful primary fruit of black plum, cocoa, and espresso, with generous fruit up front and through the midpalate before revealing ripe but slightly drying tannins on the finish. It's a solid wine from this vintage to drink 2025-2035."
