Colgin Cellars Jubilation 2022

One of American wine’s true Blue Chips producers, and a bonafide cult winery, Colgin bottles are a little bit like lottery tickets. If you can manage to get your hands on one, unless you won it in a raffle, it probably ran you somewhere between $600 and $1,000/bottle. But luckily, we have something much more affordable today.

Jubilation is Colgin’s newest wine and it’s built for more immediate enjoyment than some of their other bottlings. It’s their Cabernet-dominant blend from three hillside vineyards: 73% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, 4% Petit Verdot all aged 20 months in French oak. Not a single note is out of place. It’s juicy, full-bodied, round and graceful with extremely polished tannins. Darker currants, a hint of leather, savory purple flowers, spicy chocolate notes. This will blow you away at the dinner table tonight, but it also has the structure to age gracefully for 15-20 years if you want to cellar it.