Red, Delicious, and Old

An Older Vintage Red Wine Tasting in The Cellars

On June 7^th from 1:00-2:30 PM in The Cellars, we invite you to join us for Red, Delicious, and Old vintage wine tasting, built around mature red wines from respected producers in Napa, Sonoma, and Argentina. This is a chance to taste four bottles with age, pedigree, and real conversation value, including Napa Cabernet, Alexander Valley Cabernet, and two serious Mendoza reds from Argentina.

These are not wines you see opened every day. Older vintages give you something younger wines cannot always show: softened tannins, deeper aromatics, layered fruit, earth, spice, and the kind of development that only comes with time in the bottle.

What We Will Be Tasting

Freemark Abbey 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon

Napa Valley, California

Freemark Abbey is one of Napa Valley’s historic wineries, with roots going back to 1886. The winery is known for classic Napa Cabernet with balance, structure, and age-worthy character.

The 2011 Napa Valley Cabernet shows the classic Freemark Abbey profile: dark cherry, plum, black currant, cedar, spice, dried herbs, black pepper, and dark chocolate. With more than a decade of bottle age, this should be a great example of how Napa Cabernet evolves when the fruit begins to soften and the savory notes come forward.

Why it matters: This is old-school Napa from a winery with real history. It gives the room a benchmark before moving into mountain Sonoma and Argentina.

Stonestreet Estate 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon

Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California

Stonestreet is known for mountain-grown Cabernet from Alexander Valley. Their estate vineyards sit across a dramatic range of elevations, with some sites reaching up to 2,000 feet. That elevation gives the wines structure, tension, and a more savory mountain character than many softer valley-floor reds.

Expect dark fruit, plum, blackberry, cocoa, savory herbs, bay leaf, and firm Cabernet structure. Stonestreet’s Estate Cabernet is built to show the character of its mountain vineyard sites, with depth and length.

Why it matters: This is a great contrast to Napa. It gives guests a chance to compare Cabernet from two iconic California regions side by side.

Las Notas de Jean Claude 2014

Bodega Tapiz, Mendoza, Argentina

Las Notas de Jean Claude is one of the more elegant and expressive wines from Bodega Tapiz in Mendoza. The 2014 vintage is known for fresh red fruits, raspberry, cassis, truffle, spice, coffee, chocolate, and a long, refined finish.

This wine brings a different kind of energy to the table. It is not just about power. It is about harmony, elegance, fruit, oak, and Mendoza terroir working together.

Why it matters: This bottle shifts the tasting from California Cabernet into Argentina, showing how Mendoza can deliver structure and polish without losing its own identity.

Cobos Chañares Estate Malbec 2015

Viña Cobos, Mendoza, Argentina | Paul Hobbs Wine

Viña Cobos was founded by Paul Hobbs and became one of the defining names in Argentina’s rise as a world-class fine wine region. The winery’s own history shows that Paul Hobbs established Viña Cobos to produce iconic Argentine wines, and that the Chañares Estate vineyard in Los Árboles, Tunuyán became a key site for their top wines.

The 2015 Cobos Chañares Estate Malbec is the first vintage released and a serious bottle of wine. It as deep, dark, powerful, and concentrated, with notes of wild berry, blueberry, blackberry, mocha, chocolate, coffee, and a long, smooth finish.

Viña Cobos has received major 100-point recognition, including James Suckling’s 100-point praise for Cobos Malbec in the winery’s history. “from the Paul Hobbs-led Viña Cobos program that helped put top Argentine Malbec on the world stage, including 100-point recognition for Cobos Malbec.”

Why it matters: Mature Malbec from Viña Cobos is a wow bottle and a reason for serious red wine drinkers to show up.

Jim’s Notes

I wanted to put this tasting together because we do not get many chances to open bottles like this in a casual setting. These are the kinds of wines people walk past, wonder about, and rarely get to taste side by side.

What makes this lineup exciting is not just that the wines are older. It is that each bottle tells a different story. Freemark Abbey brings classic Napa history. Stonestreet shows the mountain side of Alexander Valley Cabernet. Las Notas brings elegance and depth from Mendoza. And Cobos Chañares Estate Malbec gives us a serious Paul Hobbs Argentina wine with the kind of reputation that makes people stop and pay attention.

This is the kind of tasting I love because it gives people a chance to slow down and see what time does to great red wine. The fruit changes. The tannins soften. The aromas get deeper. A wine that may have been big and bold years ago can become layered, smooth, earthy, and completely different in the glass.

If you enjoy Cabernet, Malbec, Napa, Sonoma, or just want to experience older red wines without having to buy full bottles yourself, this is a tasting you should not miss.

Join Us in The Cellars

Seats will be limited, and once these bottles are opened, they are gone. If you enjoy red wine, Cabernet, Malbec, Napa, Sonoma, Argentina, or simply want to taste older vintages without buying full bottles yourself, this is exactly the kind of event The Cellars was built for. No refunds due to limited seating.