| Producer | Colgin |
| Country | United States |
| Region | California |
| Subregion | Napa Valley |
| Varietal | Red Blend |
| Vintage | 2013 |
| Sku | 17980 |
| Size | 750ml |
The 2013 Colgin IX Estate Red is a benchmark Napa Valley blend that combines power, precision, and polish. Sourced from Colgin’s dramatic hillside vineyard on Pritchard Hill, this vintage earned multiple 100-point scores for its depth, energy, and age-worthy structure. A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot, it offers layers of dark fruit, graphite, herbs, and floral notes over a mineral-driven core. Still youthful, it’s a wine of both intensity and elegance, with decades of evolution ahead.
The 2013 Colgin IX is a textbook Napa cult wine—lavish yet precise, with intense dark fruit, savory-herbal layers, stony minerality, and serious aging potential. With near-perfect scores across top critics, it’s already compelling now but built to evolve into a legendary long-term cellar treasure.
I probably would have rated the 2012 IX Estate a triple-digit score if it hadn’t been followed by this otherworldly 2013 IX Estate. One of the finest wines to ever pass my lips, this insanely good effort offers a complex, layered bouquet of darker currants, white truffle, iron, tobacco, graphite, and lead pencil. Possessing more than a passing resemblance to the 2009 Château Latour, it’s full-bodied, has a deep, concentrated mouthfeel, gorgeous tannins, and a great, great finish. It doesn’t get any better, and this legendary Napa Valley red can be drunk any time over the coming three decades or more. Reviewed by Jeb Dunnuck, Issue date: February 2023. Drinking window: 2023 - 2053.
Another perfect wine from Ann Colgin and her winemaking team is the 2013 IX Proprietary Red Estate, a blend of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc and 8% Petit Verdot. An absolutely compelling wine, with notes of lead pencil shavings, spring flowers, blueberry, blackberry and cassis, it has the full smorgasbord of black and blue fruits, wonderfully integrated, toasty oak, acidity and tannin, a floral note that is unmistakable, and great richness, density and purity. It is an utterly exceptional wine and a tribute to not only a great vineyard, but impeccable winemaking and upbringing. It should drink well for 30+ years as well. Reviewed by Robert M. Parker, Jr., Issue date: October 2015. Drinking window: 2015 - 2045.
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