Paul Hobbs Crossbarn 24-HR Sale "I've Never Tasted Anything This Good at This $" -Galloni
Pinot $29.99 · Chardonnay $24.99 · Napa Cabernet $49.99 · 24 Hours
|
|
|
A Personal Note
Dear Artisans, Crossbarn is Paul Hobbs's second label, named after the barn on his family's fruit farm in upstate New York. The wines are not made from leftovers. The 2022 Pinot Noir is 100% estate fruit, drawn from four of the same Sonoma Coast vineyards he bottles individually under his flagship label at $135 to $165 a bottle. The Chardonnay is 81% estate. The Napa Cabernet comes off Coombsville and Calistoga parcels — the same neighbourhoods that feed the Hobbs Cabernets on the back half of this email at $120 and $350. Same fruit sources. Same hands. A fraction of the price — because the label on the front is the second one rather than the first. For the next 24 hours we have taken them down further still: $29.99, $24.99 and $49.99. Below the three Crossbarns you will find the rest of what we carry from the Hobbs world — Finger Lakes Riesling, Galician Mencía, Mendoza Malbec, and the Coombsville Cabernets that make the case for the whole operation. "Readers will have a very hard time finding a Pinot with this much quality for the money. All of the fruit is estate." Antonio Galloni · Vinous · 93 Points, On The 2021 Vintage
|
And Yes, This Is That Paul Hobbs
Mondavi → Opus One → Simi → his own name, 1991. Robert Mondavi hired him for his work on oak ageing. He was then appointed to the inaugural winemaking team at Opus One, the Mondavi and Rothschild joint venture, before moving to Simi. He founded Paul Hobbs Winery in 1991 and Viña Cobos in Argentina in 1999 — having already been working with Nicolas Catena there since the late 1980s. Robert Parker named him Wine Personality of the Year twice. He owns or runs seven wineries across four continents, from Sebastopol to Seneca Lake to Ribeira Sacra to Mendoza. The $24.99 Chardonnay below comes from the same cellar as all of it.
Wine One · The Galloni Pinot
|
2022 Crossbarn by Paul Hobbs
Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir. One hundred percent estate fruit, from four vineyards he bottles on their own for five times the money.
|
|
|
What Those Four Vineyards Cost On Their Own
Suckling named the sources in his note. When Hobbs bottles those same four parcels as single-vineyard wines under his flagship label, they sell for this.
Wine Two · The Steel-Aged Chardonnay
|
2024 Crossbarn by Paul Hobbs
Sonoma Coast Chardonnay. Eighty-one percent estate fruit, fermented in steel. No oak to hide behind.
|
|
Wine Three · The 2021 Napa Cabernet
|
2021 Crossbarn by Paul Hobbs
Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. Coombsville and Calistoga fruit. Five critics, 92 to 94 points, in the vintage everyone wanted.
|
|
2021 is the Napa Cabernet vintage collectors have been chasing since release. This one is drawn from Coombsville and Calistoga parcels and aged in only 13% new oak — which is why Wine Advocate remarks that the quality of the fruit is what comes through. Five critics landed it between 92 and 94.
Seven Wineries, Four Continents
|
The Rest of the
Hobbs World. Finger Lakes Riesling. Galician Mencía. Mendoza Malbec. Coombsville Cabernet. Everything else of his we carry, all of it on sale for the next 24 hours.
| 
| Finger Lakes, New York
2021 Hillick & Hobbs Estate
Seneca Lake Dry Riesling TP 95 · JS 94 · WE 93 · DM 93 · VM 92 · WS 91
His Finger Lakes estate, named for his parents, on the steep blue-slate slopes above Seneca Lake. Tasting Panel: "salinity leaves an impact through the finish." Suckling calls it "one of the stars of this challenging vintage."
| 
| Ribeira Sacra, Galicia, Spain
2020 Alvaredos-Hobbs
Mencía Ribeira Sacra WE 95 Editor's Choice · DM 95 · TP 93 · VM 92 · JS 92
100% Mencía off the terraced slate of Ribeira Sacra, twelve months in 35% new French oak. Decanter: "elegant and refined despite intensity... very deep, luxurious but light on its feet."
| 
| Valle de Uco, Mendoza, Argentina
2021 Viña Cobos "Bramare"
Malbec Valle de Uco JS 95 · VM 94 · WS 91
High-altitude Malbec from the cool 2021 vintage. Vinous: "a superlative, precise, ripe wine from a cool year." Suckling finds "crushed stone and violet with blueberries... crunchy and stony."
| 
| Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
2018 Viña Cobos "Bramare"
Cabernet Sauvignon Luján de Cuyo VM 94 · JS 94 · WS 91
Eighteen months in French oak, drinking through 2038. Vinous: "intense and juicy with a slick feel... good body and plenty of subtle, measured details."
| 
| Los Árboles, Uco Valley, Argentina
2021 Viña Cobos Cabernet Franc
"Chañares Estate" JS 97 · VM 94
The highest-scoring wine of the Argentine range, drinking through 2045. Suckling: "an impressive, gorgeous wine that piles on the ripe red and black fruit over sweet tannins that give a posh, expansive feel. An amazing standout."
| 
| Coombsville, Napa Valley
2022 Paul Hobbs
Cabernet Sauvignon Coombsville JS 96 · DM 94 · WA 93 · VM 92
The full estate expression from the district that feeds the Crossbarn Cab. Twenty months in 53% new French oak. Suckling: "a delicious, layered, chocolate- and cherry-scented wine... so luscious, balanced, vivid and deep."
| 
| The Pinnacle · 344 Cases Made
2019 Paul Hobbs Cabernet
"Nathan Coombs Estate" VM 98 · JD 97 · JS 97 · WA 96+ · WS 95
The top of the house — 100% Cabernet, 96% new French oak, drinking through 2047. Galloni at 98: "deep, sensual and layered, with phenomenal aromatic presence... the Nathan Coombs simply has it all... an absolutely magical Cabernet Sauvignon from Paul Hobbs."
|
The Bottom Line
Galloni said $40 was hard to believe.
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24-hour summer sale · questions? call 650-917-8080 or chat with us |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
artisan.wine | 2495 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View, CA 94043 | 650-917-8080 | Chat →
|
Leave a comment