This Napa Valley Wine Club Is Shipping 3 Great Red Wines in June 2025
Spring is in the air and the upcoming shipment of bottles from Robb Report 672 Napa Valley Wine Club is almost on the way. If you’ve been looking for a great way to fill some of the open positions in your wine cellar, it’s time to join the club to ensure that these three top-tier Napa Valley reds will arrive at your doorstep. This quarter’s picks include two Cabernet Sauvignons—including one from Diamond Mountain—and an estate-grown Bordeaux-style blend from Saint Helena from three different but outstanding vintages. These under-the-radar bottles are sourced by club director Dave Shefferman, who leverages his contacts up and down the valley to find topnotch wines from producers you may not know but definitely should.
Named for the number of bottles that a standard pallet of wine can hold, Club 672 is the singular wine club that only supplies Napa Valley red wine to its members. Excellent examples of bottlings from Napa’s unparalleled single vineyards or cuvées that combine juice from its leading sites, all are produced in small quantities, usually only a few barrels. These are the type of wines that would otherwise only get sold to wineries’ private club members, but Shefferman has a wide network of wine country insiders, winemakers, and vintners from which to source these specialty offerings. Each quarter begins with a scouting process that consists of attending wine-country events, tasting with winemakers, and meeting with winery owners. As opposed to wine clubs that have just one buyer making all purchasing decisions, Shefferman blind tastes the best wines with a tasting panel consisting of sommeliers, winemakers, and industry members with WSET credentials. Beginning with hundreds of potential offerings, the team winnows the list down so that only the best are up for consideration. By tasting blind, preconceived ideas regarding the brand, winemaker, or even label design are taken out of the equation so that the process focuses on wine quality only.
After Shefferman and his team reduce the field to around 20 potential choices, we taste the wines and aid in determining the three that will be sent to club members. Shipments include six total bottles, two of each selection, so members have one to enjoy now and one to cellar for savoring at a later date. (Full disclosure, we also write the tasting cards that are included with each shipment and the club site producer profiles, but we do not receive any additional compensation from the wine club.) This quarter’s choices are must haves for anyone with a taste for Napa Valley reds that outperform the usual suspects vintage after vintage. Each six-bottle pack, sent out four times a year, is priced at between $550 and $650, including shipping, for an average price of $100 per bottle. Considering the price of many Napa Cabs, this is an incredible deal for limited quantity, difficult-to-source Napa reds. Here’s a look at what’s on tap for spring.
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Robert Craig Winery 2019 Diamond Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon
Image Credit: Robert Craig Winery Fewer than 4,000 bottles were made of the final vintage of this stunner from Diamond Mountain. Just 13 acres are planted on this 60-acre site with pure white volcanic ash soils and a myriad of microclimates. Robert Craig is most famous for its Howell Mountain Cabernet from estate vineyards; this bottling is from a contract vineyard and won’t be made again, so it is truly one of a kind. Aged in 75 percent new French oak, it was bottled without fining or filtering. Deep violet to the eye, this gorgeous wine offers aromas of purple flowers, wet river rock, cassis, and pencil lead. Bright acidity wraps around flavors of black raspberry, cassis, black cherry, holiday baking spices and layers of plush tannins. The drawn-out finish is marked with a hint of clove. It’s drinking beautifully right now but don’t hesitate to lay down a few bottles until 2039.
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Ehlers Estate 2021 Portrait Red Blend
Image Credit: Ehlers Estate From an estate vineyard in Saint Helena, this wine is made with 47.5 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 17.5 percent Cabernet Franc, 29 percent Merlot, and 6 percent Petit Verdot. Winemaker Laura Diaz Muñoz got her start in winemaking while living in her native Spain, and then worked with winemaker Chris Carpenter on several high-profile Napa Valley projects before moving to Ehlers Estate. The 2021 growing season in Napa is considered by many to be one of the best in recent years, offering small but very concentrated grapes. Garnet to the eye, this delightful wine opens with aromas of Bing cherry, red plum, black raspberry, and a whiff of saline. There is bright acidity and flavors of black cherry, caramel, red plum and freshly picked strawberries all wrapped in silky soft tannins.
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Hestan Vineyards 2018 Meyer Cabernet Sauvignon
Image Credit: Hestan Vineyards This powerhouse Cabernet is made by superstar winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown, who has had his hand in more than 40 brands including Schrader, Tor, and his own Rivers-Marie label. From Hestan’s estate vineyard in a remote area in the southeast of Napa Valley, this wine hails from a season that was considered almost perfect. Warm weather with no heat spikes allowed for ideal maturation on the vine, and aging in 80 percent new French oak imparted a tannic imprint that is just beginning to soften, marking the beginning of this wine’s ideal drinking window. Inky purple in the glass, this stunning wine opens with aromas of blackberry, cassis, anise, and licorice. On the palate there is bright acidity and flavors of black cherry, ripe plum, caramel, brown sugar, and finely ground white pepper. The tannins are opulent but eventually recede to reveal a spicy finish.
