672 Napa Valley Wine Club Is Shipping 3 Great Red Wines in Dec 2025
Just in time for the holiday season, Robb Report 672 Napa Valley Wine Club is readying its final offering of the year, featuring three sumptuous reds from America’s premiere wine region. Named for the number of bottles on a standard pallet of wine, Club 672 does things differently from other wine clubs: It exclusively sends its members only red wine from only Napa Valley. All these bottles are made in extremely limited quantity, usually just a few barrels, and while some may be a cuvée from a variety of prime Napa grape-growing sites, this season’s bottlings showcase site-specific expressions of some of the valley’s finest terroir.
While wine afficionados are no longer shocked when they come across Napa Cabs priced at around $600 for a single bottle, Robb Report’s club sends members two bottles each of three different wines—totaling six bottles every three months—priced at between $550 and $650, including shipping, for an average price of $100 per bottle. Wines of the quality procured by club director Dave Shefferman normally cost multiples of the amount that is charged per bottle for each quarterly shipment. Offering insider access to small producers and an incredibly low price for wines of this level, the best thing about the club is that it connects members with wines of “cult” status without the hassle of allocation lists or searching for bottles on the secondary market. And the best thing about receiving two bottles of each is that there is one to drink now and another to lay down to savor at a later date.
A well-connected Napa Valley pro, Shefferman, CEO of WineSavage, has developed relationships with winery owners and winemakers over a lengthy career in the California wine industry. Seeking out limited bottlings that would ordinarily only be sold to a winery’s club members or to tasting room VIPs, he leaves no stone unturned sourcing the best of Napa Valley each quarter. After casting a wide net, he and a team of sommeliers, WSET certified wine professionals, and winemakers come together to blind taste his choices. Out of upwards of 60 wines—often as many as 100—Shefferman narrows it down to a handful possibilities.
Once that’s done, we taste through the team’s highest-rated selections and work with Shefferman to choose the three that will be sent to members. This quarter’s picks include two small-lot Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons and a proprietary blend of Cabernet Franc and Merlot. Readers of Robb Report are aware that no matter the category, only the crème de la creme is special enough to make it into its pages or the website. From watches to real estate to automobiles and beyond, Robb Report’s writers and editors scour the world of luxury to highlight the very best, and the wine club upholds the same rigorous standards. Here’s what’s in store this quarter from Robb Report 672 Napa Valley Wine Club.
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Shifflett Ranch & Vineyard 2019 Napa Valley Proprietary Red
Image Credit: Shifflett Ranch & Vineyard Located in southern Yountville in the western benchlands of the Mayacamas Mountain Range, Shifflett Ranch and Vineyard was acquired by the Shifflett family in 1942. Six members of the family are involved in various aspects of running the 54-acre vineyard and winery. Winemaker Will Segui, who married into the family, trained under the tutelage of famed Napa winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown, and he believes in minimal input winemaking to showcase the true characteristics of the vineyard. An estate grown blend of 55 percent Cabernet Franc and 45 percent Merlot, this wine was co-fermented in stainless steel tanks with cooling jackets and pumped over twice a day for sixteen days. After fermentation, it was pressed and then aged in 80 percent new French oak barrels for 20 months. Garnet colored in the glass, this delightful wine introduces itself with aromas of dried sage, rose hips, red raspberry, cherry, and red currant. It continues on the palate with velvety tannins and flavors of crushed purple violet petals, finely ground brown baking spices, red berries, and dark chocolate. Drink now through 2034.
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Reynolds Family Winery 2021 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Image Credit: Reynolds Family Winery Owner Steve Reynolds recalls that before he and his wife Suzie arrived here, this former chicken farm was home to a boarded-up farmhouse, a spring-fed pond, and a few goats and chickens wandering the property. Planted in 1995, the nine acres of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes on Reynolds’ 14.5-acre estate just south of the iconic Stags Leap District consist of three clonal selections, 337, 4, and Weimer. Reynolds and assistant winemaker Arturo Irucuta say that the 2021 growing season was exceptional with steady weather and a long, even ripening period which allowed them to pick at optimal maturity without a sense of rushing. After fermentation the wine was aged for 22 months in 100 percent French oak, with approximately 60 percent new barrels, then bottled and allowed to rest an additional 10 months before release. Brilliant ruby in the glass, this stunning wine opens with aromas of black plum, graphite, ripe red cherry, a whiff of cocoa powder, and soft vanilla bean. It is soft, silky, and full bodied on the palate with flavors of plum, black cherry, mocha, espresso bean, and a beautifully balanced acidic finish.
