Lewis Cellars Sale!!

“Mr. Mel Dick asked me about 18 years ago what wines I like to drink.” I told him “I like to drink the wines my friends make.” “Wine is more personal to me. I don’t seek out what new wine might get a 96 point scores for there are a ton of great wines.

Stylistically I like some better than others and in my portfolio there is room for all different styles as long as they are well made with the integrity and effort of the winemaker.” - Jimmy Mancbach

I would agree with the late great Jimmy that there is a unique connection with the wine when you know the person who’s sweat and passion went into producing it.  Wine is nature and human perception of an art form that is as ancient as our society. 

You have four nights to come out and drink with me!  And the wine bar is still only open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday night for our wine tasting events only.  But we do have the table in the Wine Cave available on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights!  This week the table in the Wine Cave is available on Thursday, Friday and Saturday night!!




We have a minimum of 6 people to reserve the table in the Cave but we will take up to 15 people for a curated dinner by Chef Toni.  We must know in advance what food items you want so you will have to coordinate the menu with Toni ahead of time, but she can put together any of your favorites from past Wine Bar menus or whatever you want if she has enough notice. The best thing about this table is the view of the wine, we have the largest selection of vintage wine in South Florida and everything is available at a retail price!!  You may want to bring a sweater it is 64 degrees in the wine cave.

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 6:00 PM
Happy Hour Wine Tasting Featuring Dunham Cellars with Special Guest Mark Harmann

Thursday, September 23, 2021 - 7:30 PM
Braida Di Gaicomo Bologna Super Barbera Wine Tasting

Friday, September 24, 2021 - 7:30 PM
Vintage Bordeaux Wine Tasting back to 1937...

Saturday, September 25, 2021 - 7:30 PM
Hospices De Beaune Burgundy Wine Tasting with Special Guest Dr. Robert Maliner

Some of my favorite wines are made by my good friends and Randy and the late Debbie Lewis are some of my oldest friends in the wine business.  I met Randy and Debbie my first year working at Café Maxx in 1990.  I could not have been happier to hear that their 2013 vintage Napa Cabernet Sauvignon was the #1 Wine in the Wine Spectator’s illustrious top 100 in 2016, even though it had been sold out for more than 6 months.  I was also glad to know that Debbie saw them reach this incredible achievement before she passed away.  God bless and that’s why I always say drink the good stuff first as you never know when your last day is so there is no reason to drink anything but KILLER juice!  (KILLER is my highest score)

The only problem is that like so many great small producers Lewis Cellars only make a small amount of wine with less than 1000 cases of most of the reserve Cabernet Sauvignon bottlings and their largest production wine being only 1700 cases and when you are one of 40 wines to have every achieved the #1 Spot in the Wine Spectator’s top 100 list.  This is the highest honor and coming from the world’s most recognized wine publication you know that the wine will only sell out faster this year so you may not want to wait too long to respond to this e-mail if you want the 2018 Reserve Napa Cabernet Sauvignon, this is one of the last vintage of this wine that Randy Lewis may be a part of as Lewis Cellars as he just sold the Lewis Cellars to Stewart Resnick and Lynda Resnick.  The Resnicks own Justin Winery in Paso Robles. Pom Wonderful and Figi water.

To say thank you Randy offered us an incredible price on the current vintage of Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon giving us the opportunity to sell this wine at the Best price in the USA!!!

New Releases from Lewis Cellars!!

2018 Lewis Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Napa
Price: $186.00    Sale Price: $155.00           Quantity in Stock: 64

From an outstanding vintage, our 2018 Reserve Cabernet is a full-throttle bottle, packed with fruit yet balanced with a fine-tuned chassis.  Showy and complex, the wine is obsidian dark, layered with black currant, berries, coffee and sweet oak spices.  Fleshy on entry, the palate soars with brazen youth in a firmly framed structure that tails away with chocolaty fine-grained tannins.

2017 Lewis Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Napa
Price: $169.50    Sale $149.16       Quantity in Stock: 10

Very short yields in 2017 from a small collection of hillside and bench-land vineyards in Calistoga, Rutherford and Oak Knoll created a wine of Napoleonic stature – compact and powerful with a winning character.  A battalion of ripe black fruit and blueberry compote is infused with sultry spices, charcuterie, clove and dark chocolate aromas.  Expansive on entry, the broad-reaching palate develops a tailing regiment with crushed rock, toffee and polished tannins.

2016 Lewis Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Napa Magnum
Price: $397.50 Your Price: $349.80    Quantity in Stock: 1

There is distinct power and complexity to our 2016 Reserve Cabernet. Navy blue-black yet brilliant in color the wine is front-loaded with ripe fruit of crushed currants and berries. Secondary notes bring mineral and earth aromas laced with sweet anise and oak spice. Packed with fruit on entry, a dusky, sinewy character develops on the palate with fine-grained tannins tailing to the finish.

2015 Lewis Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Napa Magnum (1.5L)
Price: $378.00    Your Price: $332.64 Quantity in Stock: 9

From the outstanding 2015 vintage our Reserve Cabernet is powerfully seductive, brilliant and black in hue with kirsch-like crushed berries and showy cedar spice.  Ripe, hi-tone fruit aromas are laced with candlewax, clove and cocoa. Expansive, with tiers of black fruit and velvety texture, the palate builds depth and power culminating in a muscular, long finish with supple young tannins.

2019 Lewis Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Napa

Price: $115.25    Your Price: $101.42

Layered with ripe berry, red currant and ambrosial “on the vine” character, our 2019 Napa Valley Cabernet is deliciously complex.  Inflected with dusty ripe fruit and chocolaty floral aromas, the wine is concentrated yet classic with remarkable silky texture spanning the palate and augmenting the finish.

2018 Lewis Cabernet Sauvignon Napa
List Price: $109.25             Your Price: $96.14            Quantity in Stock: 32

Winery Notes: Mission fig, Mozart, Linzer torte - our 2018 Merlot exudes sumptuous, Viennese character. Red currants, cassis, and rose petals play in concert with juicy, vibrant character creating a symphony of flavors and a final flourish of chocolate.

2018 Lewis Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Hillstone Vineyard Napa
Price: $169.50    Your Price: $149.16          Quantity in Stock: 19

2016 Lewis Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Hillstone Vineyard Napa
Price: $195.00    Your Price: $171.60          Quantity in Stock: 6

Winery notes: The Hillstone Cabernet is created from a prime hillside vineyard at the home of George and Carol Biel. Planted in 1993, the vines are rooted in cobbly, light loam soils, terraced on a steep, west-facing slope in Rutherford.

2019 Lewis Cellars Mason's Cabernet Sauvignon
Price: $76.00       Your Price: $66.88            Quantity in Stock: 12
With high school behind him and college on the horizon it’s all sunshine and blue sky for Mason. His 2019 bottling is 100% Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, seriously fruited with hi-tone boysenberry, cassis and café mocha. Plush and poised on the palate, the future is bright for this Mason’s Cabernet.

2018 Lewis Cabernet Sauvignon Mason's Napa
Price: $73.00       Your Price: $64.24            Quantity in Stock: 3

Winery Notes: front-loaded with black plum, cherry, chocolate and cedary spice. Sourced from several of the same vineyards as our Napa Cabernet this wine is boldly fruited yet youthful with tons of juicy character and a deliciously fresh finish.

2019 Lewis Cellars Racecar Red Cabernet Sauvignon
Price: $51.00   Your Price: $44.88      Quantity in Stock: 11

100% Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon, Racecar Red is inspired by Indy 500 driver turned winemaker Randy Lewis. Geared for pleasure, the 2019 vintage is rich and deeply fruited with responsive steering and a balanced chassis. Take a turn at the wheel.

2018 Lewis Cellars Cuvee L Napa
Price: $275.00    Your Price: $242.00

Think of Cuvee L as a supercharged rendition of our Reserve Cabernet, with a swimsuit model at the wheel. Spectacularly ripe fruit laced in sexy clove and oak spices, this wine is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon and total seduction. Youthful and forward with juicy blackberry, silk-skinned plum and rich, malt chocolate, ample tannins bring maturity, depth and heightened experience to the wine. 150 cases produced.

2015 Lewis Cuvee L Red Napa
List Price: $275.00    Your Price: $242.00                   Quantity in Stock: 4

Straight from James Fenimore Cooper’s novel, Last of the Mohicans, comes our 2015 Cuvee L – a noble savage from an outstanding vintage with great depth of character. 100% Cabernet Sauvignon with the strength of a grizzly and the soul of a chief this onyx and indigo wine is cloaked in tiers of blackberry with a quiver of clove and cedary oak spices. Broad paths of richly rendered fruit trail into hand-hewn tannins reflecting nature’s winding ways.

2018 Lewis Callars Merlot Napa
List Price: $99.00        Your Price: $87.12      Quantity in Stock: 17

Mission fig, Mozart, Linzer torte - our 2018 Merlot exudes sumptuous, Viennese character.  Red currants, cassis, and rose petals play in concert with juicy, vibrant character creating a symphony of flavors and a final flourish of chocolate.

2018 Lewis Syrah Ethan's Sonoma
Price: $50.00    Your Price: $44.00               Quantity in Stock: 13

Bright-eyed, fresh and full of varietal character our 2018 Ethan’s Syrah serves up complex floral fruit aromas with black truffle, violets, pancetta and Turkish coffee.  Vibrant and generous on the palate the wine keeps an even keel with baker’s chocolate and crushed rock at the tail.

This wine has scored as high as any of the other Lewis wines and is always the best to drink upon release- a real crowd pleaser!!

2019 Lewis Alec's Blend Napa
Price: $76.25       Your Price: $67.10

24 and there’s so much more – Neil Young nailed it with “Old Man” and our 2019 Alec’s Blend sings with youthful, headstrong fruit character. 56% Syrah, 30% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 3% Cabernet Franc this year’s blend is bursting with blueberry, black cherry, cola and chocolate flavors. Dusted with cocoa, floral and cedary spices, the wine stays fresh and gains impressive richness through the finish.

2018 Lewis Cellars Alec's Blend Syrah
Price: $65.00       Your Price: $57.20            Quantity in Stock: 10

 Like a stream-side thicket of blackberries basking in hot afternoon sun, our 2018 Alec’s Blend captures the essence of summer.  57% Syrah, 28% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 1% Cabernet Franc this year’s blend boasts incredible color and layers of prodigious fruit with beguiling briar and vanilla spice.  Hedonistic, youthful and seriously good with supple chocolatey tannins.

2018 Lewis Cellars Debbie's Cuvee Sauvignon Blanc Napa

List Price: $72.00             Your Price: $63.36  Quantity in Stock: 30

Debbie loved Sauvignon Blanc! She enjoyed a glass while cooking most nights. We celebrate her spirit with this special wine. Please raise a glass to Debbie! 100% Sauvignon Blanc French oak aged 14 months.  This is the first time we have been able to offer Debbie’s Cuvee in South Florida!!

2018 Lewis Sauvignon Blanc Napa
List Price: $43.25             Your Price: $38.06  Quantity in Stock: 10

Like a sailplane our 2018 Sauvignon Blanc soars with alluring floral spice, lemon-lime zest and hints of vanilla. A leading edge of native acidity frames a camber line of ripe mango and tropical fruit that tails gracefully with succulent lime skin and subtle mineral. -lewiscellars.com

2020 Lewis Cellars Chardonnay Napa
Price: $61.25   Your Price: $53.90

Seemingly fresh from the Garden of Eden but actually sourced from the Oak Knoll district, our 2020 Napa Valley Chardonnay is luscious and laden with forbidden fruit.  Honeycrisp cinnamon apple, shortbread and tree blossom aromas succumb to a lustrous long palate and sinfully silky finish.

2019 Lewis Cellars Chardonnay Napa
Price: $58.50   Your Price: $51.48      Quantity in Stock:7

Strewn with silky ripe stone fruit and river rock minerality our 2019 Napa Chardonnay is complex and compelling.  Opening with green pear and yellow peach, creamy flan flavors float across the palate with flecks of gardenia and gun metal, carrying through with drive and detail to a sumptuous finish.

2019 Lewis Chardonnay Russian River Sonoma
Price: $58.50   Your Price: $51.48      Quantity in Stock: 6

Key lime pie, orange blossom, pineapple and lemon meringue our 2019 Sonoma Chardonnay swells with tropical delights. Super-fresh, shimmery and expansive, with secondary citrus fruit and caramel crunch flavors, the wine loops back with form-fitting structure, mineral and brine.

2019 Lewis Cellars Chardonnay Barcaglia Lane Russian River
Price: $81.00       Your Price: $71.28            Quantity in Stock: 11

Opening with ripe lemon, honeysuckle, sweet mineral and macadamia nut brittle, our 2019 Barcaglia Lane Chardonnay benefits from 15 months of barrel aging sur lie in 100% French oak. The wine is juicy, vibrant and rich, with gauzy texture, lifted fruit and floral character fanning to a delicious succulent finish.

2019 Lewis Cellars Chardonnay Reserve Napa
Price: $79.00       Your Price: $69.52            Quantity in Stock: 44

Super seductive and seriously complex, our 2019 Napa Reserve Chardonnay is a stunner, opening with gardenia, lime, green pear, brioche and mineral spices.  Richly rendered yet restrained, the palate flows with a delicious interplay of tension and length culminating in waves of seductive stone fruit, mineral and blossoms.

2018 Lewis Cellars Reserve Chardonnay Napa
Price: $75.00       Your Price: $66.00            Quantity in Stock: 2

think of our 2018 Reserve Chardonnay as a Rolls Royce Wraith – offering a sumptuous interior with serious performance. A plethora of heady aromas alight from the glass with Anjou pear, warm brioche, sweet mineral spice and gardenia blossom. Lush yet lively with great depth and gauzy texture the wine shows impeccable build quality and attention to detail with a miles long finish.

A bit more about Lewis Cellars:

Their story one of the most interesting in the wine business and one of the most unique because Randy and Debbie do not own a single grapevine and they have managed to produced consistently excellent wine for over 20 years!  And we have been on the Lewis bandwagon since day one.

I remember the first time I met Randy and Debbie, they stopped by Café Maxx to say hello and introduce me to their Oakville Ranch wines as I was setting up the bar.  I was probably a bit rushed that evening as I looked at my watch and asked, "Do you have an appointment?"  They added me to their Christmas card list that year and continued to come back every year to visit with me and taste the current releases.

Randy also liked to challenge himself by ordering a glass of each wine that we were serving “by the glass” and then say- "don't tell me which one is which, I want to see if I can figure it out."  The thing that impressed me the most was not that Randy would pick out each wine correctly it was that he could drink the entire glass of each wine after his blind tasting was over.

After only a few visits we had everything from Oakville Ranch Winery on our wine list and then shortly after that Randy and Debbie formed the Lewis Cellars label.

We have watched the Lewis's grow and grow as they went through the valley's top vineyard sites to find fruit and contract the services of some top name consultants like; Joe Cafaro, Helen Turley and Paul Hobbs.  Today, they are making some of the best wines coming from Napa and Sonoma with each varietal being at the top level of quality at any price range.

Every year we conduct a California “Cult” Cabernet Sauvignon tasting featuring some of the most expensive and the highest rated wines from Napa Valley.   We have included this wine as a ringer in the past and it has come in first place among the likes of Harlan Estate, Colgin, Araujo, Bryant Family and yes…Screaming Eagle!!  All of these sell for over $500 a bottle today!!!

Lewis Cellars is an offspring of Oakville Ranch Vineyards, which burst on the scene as one of Napa Valley's most exciting new wineries of the late 1980's.  It all began when Bob Miner (the founder of the highly successful Oracle computer software company) and his wife Mary bought Oakville Ranch in 1989.  Longtime friends, Randy and Debbie Lewis, were brought in as limited partners to launch and manage the brand.  Lewis has a background unique among vintners in the Napa Valley.  From 1970 to 1991, Lewis drove all sorts of race cars and raced in five Indianapolis 500 runs, where he once finished 14th.  Debbie, his wife since 1985, is a former wine retailer - she once managed the London Wine Bar in San Francisco and also helped Lewis' race-car career by working with sponsors.  Lewis admitted that winding up in the wine business is an unusual turn of events for a guy who has competed with the best from Monte Carlo to Laguna Seca.  Born and raised in Atlanta Ga., Lewis came from a family of doctors.  Lewis got his bachelor of science degree at San Jose State and then received his master's degree in business administration at UC Berkeley in 1970.  "I always wanted to race cars but my family wouldn't let me," he admitted. "By the time I had just about finished college I figured it was an opportunity for me to do what I wanted.  I didn't start racing until '69 - I was a late bloomer. But then I couldn't get enough of it, so I started racing full-time."  With an advance from a professional team, Lewis took off for Europe in the winter of 1970.  "My first race was in Monte Carlo," he said. "I was a bit nervous as there were 125 drivers for 24 slots.  Nevertheless, I did all right. I finished 12th."  Lewis spent three years in Europe.  It was there that he got a bit of education - not only on the track, but in the European lifestyle as well.  He learned a great deal about wine and developed a palate for a wide variety of varietals and winemaking styles.  "For 23 years I had a great career. But now I can't think of anything I'd rather do," said Lewis.

After the winery was formed, Lewis and Miner decided to go looking for a winemaker. They turned to one of the best in the business - Joe Cafaro.  Cafaro was the founding winemaker at Keenan and later worked at Acacia.  Since 1985, he has served as consultant to the Jaeger Family Winery, Dalla Valle Vineyards, and Robert Sinskey Vineyards.  He is also the founder of Cafaro Cellars, noted for fabulous Merlots and Cabernets.  At Oakville Ranch Cafaro practices minimal winemaking intervention and utilizes lots of new French oak barrels to produce a singularly unique Napa Valley hillside Cabernet.  From the outset Oakville Ranch Vineyards was a Cabernet star - its debut was one of the best wines produced in the Napa Valley in the very difficult 1989 vintage.  The 1990 Cabernet was broad, rich, lush, and complex - ample evidence that great wines can and would be produced at Oakville Ranch.  The 1991 vintage, however, heralded the true arrival of Oakville Ranch as a Cabernet superstar.  The winery produced three Cabernets in that vintage: a regular bottling, a Reserve, and a Lewis Select.  The latter was a really special wine and a significant notch up from the other two Oakville Ranch Cabernets - it was easily one of the top stars of the 1991 vintage.  Although only 450 cases were produced, it garnered significant attention for Randy and Debbie Lewis.  The Lewis Select was their own personal statement as vintners and set the stage for the Lewis’s to break away on their own venture.

Within a year after the release of the first Lewis Select Cabernet under the Oakville Ranch label, Randy and Debbie's tenure came to an end.  In November of 1994, their business partner, Bob Miner, lost his battle with cancer.  Shortly thereafter the Miner family decided to resume full control of the property.  Randy and Debbie had accomplished their objective of piloting the Oakville Ranch brand to 4,500 cases and achieving almost overnight recognition for Oakville Ranch among connoisseurs of Napa Valley wines.  Bob Miner's nephew Dave assumed management responsibilities; and Randy & Debbie Lewis decided to form their own brand utilizing Oakville Ranch fruit.  A long term contract with the Miner family guaranteed the Lewis’s as much as half of the grapes from Oakville Ranch, thus ensuring them a high quality source of fruit for the foreseeable future.  Although the picture is still somewhat muddled, the final split between the Miners and the Lewis’s may not have been completely amicable.  Firstly, Randy and Debbie have earnestly been combing the Napa Valley for new vineyard sources that will make them less dependent on Oakville Ranch.  Secondly, though they continued to utilize the services of winemaker Cafaro (who was still making the wine for Oakville Ranch), within eighteen months of the launch of Lewis Cellars, Joe Cafaro was gone.  In his place arrived the leading winemaker in the entire state of California, the inimitable Helen Turley.  Although Turley had responsibility for the 1994 Lewis Cabernet and the 1995 Lewis Chardonnay, her relationship with the Lewis’s was short-lived.  In early 1997 Lewis Cellars hired another superstar winemaker, Paul Hobbs.  Hobbs has his own very successful and consults for a number of other properties both in California and South America.

The winemaker today is Josh Widaman he came to Lewis from Pahlmeyer where he had been winemaker. His previous experience includes 4 years as assistant winemaker at Chimney Rock Winery and multiple roles at Stags' Leap Winery, Gloria Ferrer, and Viña Tarapaca in Chile.

With a B.S. in Viticulture & Enology from UC Davis, Josh brings 15 years of winemaking experience to Lewis, where he is a large and ever-smiling presence.