Charles Krug Napa Valley Generations Bordeaux Blend 2019 at $58/bottle!! And all the Charles Krug wines in the store on SALE!!
"Now wines are wonders; great wines are magical; and winemakers are mad. Like horse fanciers, they are always trying to improve the breed." - William E. Massee
Charles Krug Winery has been on our radar for the entire 27+ years that I have owned the store and we just showed these wines at our “Best of 2024” wine tasting in January. I kept hearing the same thing all night, “those Charles Krug wines are excellent”. Many people are familiar with Charles Krug winery as it is the oldest winery in Napa Valley but a lot of people forgot how good the wines are from this Iconic producer.
Charles Krug winery is one of the best wine producers not only in Napa Valley, but we challenge you to find a better Cabernet Sauvignon or Sauvignon Blanc from Napa Valley or anywhere else in their prospective price points. All the wines on this offering are estate bottled and grown wines that come from not decades of experience in the wine business but generations. It is hard to find value in Napa Valley today as Napa Valley is the most overpriced wine regions on earth. There are more wineries that are charging $200+ per bottle for their first release than anywhere else which is why we are happy that one of the first families of Napa Valley still puts both quality and value as their first and foremost consideration for all the wines they produce.
I was blown away with all of the wines but the first two on this offering are two of the best Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons that I have tasted this year in their price categories. We have a GREAT price on the Generations which the 1997 Charles Krug Generations was the wine of the night at our recent 1990’s vintage California Cabernet Sauvignon Tasting.
Charles Krug – The First Winery in Napa Valley
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Estate Grown Napa Valley Cabernet for Under $30!!
2022 Charles Krug Cabernet Sauvignon Yountville Napa
Price: $36.00 Sale Price: $27.50 Quantity in Stock: 26
Grapes grown at our five family estates in Yountville form the foundation for our Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine opens with aromas of cherries, cassis, and currant, with softer notes of brown butter, toffee, baking chocolate, toasted oak, rainbow peppercorns and bay leaf. This medium-bodied wine is silky with flavors of baked berries, brown butter, and vanilla. The fruit is beautifully integrated with lightly toasted oak leading to lengthy finish.
2019 Charles Krug Peter Mondavi Family Family Reserve 'Generations', Napa Valley, USA
Wine.com $89.99 Winewatch.com Special Sale $58.00 Quantity in Stock: 130
(97 Points) Quietly powerful, dense with alluring oak spices and late-picked fruit flavors, this full-bodied, velvet-textured Cabernet-dominant blend is generous and inviting to drink, but also balanced and structured for the long haul. Concentrated, deep and layered, it is meant for drinking with appreciative friends or family in the future. Wine Enthusiast
We just hosted a 1990’s California Cabernet Sauvignon wine tasting at the wine bar a few weeks ago and the wine of the night was the 1997 Charles Krug Generations!
1997 Charles Krug Peter Mondavi Family Family Reserve 'Generations' Napa Valley
Price: $160.00 Sale Price: $129.00 Quantity in Stock: 3
Wine Watch Tasting Notes: A very Bordeaux like bouquet of aromas with an array of vine herbs, plum and currant berry fruit with notes of cedar and coco very complex and still quite fresh. This wine still has a good amount of current berry fruit on the tongue with silky smooth tannins and a good amount of fresh earth and dark spices lingering through the finish. Finish 45+ Most Excellent
2019 CHARLES KRUG CABERNET SAUVIGNON HOWELL MOUNTAIN NAPA
Price: $180.00 Your Price: $158.40 Quantity in Stock: 8
(94 Points) Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Sourced from the family's Cold Springs Vineyard on Howell Mountain, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Family Reserve features minty, herbal shadings set against a backdrop of ripe cassis and cherries. Full-bodied, rich and concentrated, this tannic but ripe, powerful but balanced effort finishes velvety and long.
Blend: 96% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Petit Verdot
2018 Charles Krug Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain Napa
Price: $150.00 Sale Price: $132.00 Quantity in Stock: 4
Rising 1,650 feet above the Napa Valley floor on the southwest side of Howell Mountain, the Mondavi family estate vineyard producing the grapes for this wine sits above the fog line during the growing season. The distinctive climate, along with volcanic and iron-rich red soils, produce fruit with great balance and intensity. This wine displays aromas of subtle toffee, flint, savory dark caramel, coffee with cream, toasty oak, smoked paprika, black cherry and black fruit on the nose. It is full-bodied with firm tannins yet offers soft supple layers of espresso, toast, mocha, concentrated berries, and vanilla. The finish ends with well-integrated oak.
2019 Charles Krug Peter Mondavi Family Vintage Selection Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley
Price: $187.50 Your Price: $165.00 Quantity in Stock: 4
2018 Charles Krug Peter Mondavi Family Vintage Selection Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley
Price: $187.50 Your Price: $165.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
2017 Charles Krug Peter Mondavi Family Vintage Selection Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, USA
Price: $157.50 Your Price: $138.60 Quantity in Stock: 8
The finished wine features inviting aromas of blackberry, currant, roasted sweet pepper and rich oak; the flavors are concentrated blackberry jam and plum with a touch of black pepper on very long toasty oak finish.
2023 Charles Krug Sauvignon Blanc Napa
Price: $19.50 Your Price: $17.16 Quantity in Stock: 5
Fruit for our Sauvignon Blanc, principally sourced from our historic St. Helena estate, was hand-picked in the cool of night to ensure it reached the winery in pristine condition. The freshly picked grapes were cold-soaked on the skins for 6-8 hours before going to press, a process that enhances the fruit’s natural aromatics. The wine was cold fermented slowly in stainless steel tanks to further its wonderfully aromatic bouquet and delicate flavor profile. This light-to-medium bodied wine displays vibrant aromas of white floral/lemon blossom, lemon verbena, honeydew melon, pink grapefruit, passionfruit, pink guava, lime skin and lemongrass. On the palate it is sweet and crisp, with flavors of pink grapefruit, guava, lemon blossom, bartlett pear, and lemon grass.
After several droughty winters, the Napa Valley enjoyed higher than usual rainfall during the winter of 2022 to 2023, replenishing the deep soil moisture. Spring was cool and as a result, the vine and grape development was delayed by about two weeks throughout the season. The summer was warm and steady, with no extremes. A combination of cool nights, warm days, and plenty of water in the soil allowed a long, slow ripening period, and later harvesting. This long and gentle ripening resulted in beautiful aromatics and good acids in the whites.
2022 Charles Krug Chardonnay Carneros
Price: $23.25 Your Price: $20.46 Quantity in Stock: 11
The cool and foggy Carneros region is known for producing grapes with a natural balance of acidity and ripeness. Fruit was hand-picked in the cool of night to ensure it reached the winery in pristine condition. This elegantly balanced, medium-bodied wine is 50% French oak barrel (14% new) fermented and aged sur-lie. Aromas of honeydew and wild plum. Flavors of lime and lemon heighten the vibrant acidity. Great body and weight, contribute to lushness on the palate. Great complexity of toasted brioche, lemon curd and nectarine.- Charles Krug Web page
2022 Charles Krug Merlot Napa USA
Price: $28.50 Your Price: $25.08 Quantity in Stock: 4
Our 2022 Napa Valley Merlot is selected from our estates in St. Helena and Yountville. The grapes are night picked, destemmed and cold soaked to extract color and aromas. The wine opens with expressive aromas of hibiscus tea, cranberry, cherry, red currant, cedar, plum skin, brown butter, and whole cardamom. It is so and buttery with a lush entry. Notes of vanilla, baked red fruit, cocao nibs, and red currant lead to a medium long finish with cherry and spicy oak.
A bit about Charles Krug Winery - The original Mondavi Family winery in Napa
Charles Krug is Napa Valley’s first winery. Founded in 1861 by Prussian immigrant Charles Krug, he came to America at age 22 with nothing but willpower and proceeded to become a major player in establishing the entire California wine industry.
When Krug died in 1882, the winery was purchased by his close friend, James Moffitt, a San Francisco banker. Moffett was a big city banker and loved the thought of retiring to the countryside and starting a family business, but his daughters and their husbands were not interested in Krug or the wine business. Moffitt owned the winery through prohibition, then began looking for a winemaking family to carry on the Krug tradition. Both Robert and Peter drove down to meet their father at Crocker First National Bank, where Moffett was the director, and the Mondavi’s were mere bumpkins from sleepy little Saint Helena. It only took a few minutes to convince Moffitt that the Mondavi’s were a perfect fit to carry on the Krug tradition.
Cesar Mondavi was sixty years young when he and his wife, Rosa, purchased the winery for $75,000. His two sons, Peter and Robert, were both attending Stanford at the time, when they finished with school they came back to run the winery. Cesare died in 1959 and Rosa became president, then passed the torch on to Peter in 1966. With obvious differences of opinions Peter and Robert decided to take separate paths in the wine industry. The two brothers could not have been more different in terms of personality, Peter is private and relaxed and Robert inevitably attracts publicity and is constantly fired with energy. Peter was content to tend the family business, while Robert was driven by a need for attention and bravado. Peter avoids making waves; Robert rocks the boat. Peter and Robert barely spoke to each other for the better part of twenty-five years. One of the major disputes they had in the early seventies was lost in court by Peter and cost him some of his most prized Cabernet vineyards in Oakville.
On June 13th 1985 two wine collectors Tawfig Khoury and Barney Rhodes staged an improbable reunion of the two Napa Valley winemaking brothers. The two collectors had amassed a historic retrospective of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons from Charles KrugWinery, 1944 to 1965, and Robert Mondavi Winery, 1966 to 1984, and invited both Mondavis to attend. This not only brought the two powerhouse California vintners together under one roof, but had also apparently helped ease the tension that existed between the two since their breakup in 1966.
The Mondavi family is responsible for some of the most important innovations in California winemaking history. Way back in 1937 peter Mondavi, Sr. developed cold fermentation, this enabled winemakers to produce exceptionally crisp, fruity white wines. Charles Krug Winery was one of the first to use vintage dated varietal wines. They are credited with the first winery newsletter Bottles and Bins. Today, Napa Valley is the second largest tourist attraction in California, the first winery to initiate tastings on the lawn was Krug back in 1951. Peter Mondavi Sr. was the first to adapt sterile filtration to winemaking. He was also the first to use small French Oak barrels and glass lined tanks, providing safe, neutral storage for young wines. It’s no wonder to us how they became one of the twenty largest wineries in the United States.
Peter lived to be 101 years old and credited his longevity partially to enjoying a glass of wine everyday. His two sons, Marc and Peter, Jr. have taken over the responsibilities of running Charles Krug and C.K Mondavi. Marc attended UC Davis, he oversees the vineyard management and winemaking duties. While Peter, Jr. went to Stanford and manages the marketing, sales and general winery functions, sound familiar? The two have no doubt seen their father and uncle’s life change due to their differences as young men. They have learned that there is great importance in being a family winery first, but you should always follow your dreams. This family has a history that is unparalleled in the California wine industry.
Charles krug has focused on the major varietals grown in California. They make a Sauvignon Blanc from the home ranch in Napa, a Chardonnay from Fracchia and Willow Lake Ranch in Napa, a Pinot Noir from Willow lake Vineyard in Carneros, a Zinfandel from both Napa and Sonoma fruit sources, a Merlot from Krug Ranch, Voltz Ranch and Mondavi/Lincoln Ranch, a Cabernet Sauvignon from Mondavi/Lincoln Ranch and Stinsen Ranch, a Sangiovese form Krug Ranch, and a line of reserve wines in all of the above varietals when vintage permits. The “Vintage Select” designation for the best lots of Cabernet was introduced in 1946, at that time the wine was aged in old oak barrels and sometimes even in whisky barrels. In 1991 Krug introduced a wine called “Generation” this is a blend of three of the traditional Bordeaux varietals; Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot. The term generations signifies the continued tradition of innovation and excellence of the Peter Mondavi family.
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