2017 Promontory

The 2017 Promontory is vibrant, focused and bristling with energy. Bright red-toned fruit, spice, crushed rocks and flowers convey energy, with floral notes that continue to open with aeration. This is an especially mid-weight, nervous vintage for Promontory, and yet all the elements are so well balanced. The 2017 is going to be a spectacular wine, in a number of years. This is one of its best showings.

- Antonio Galloni (10/2022)

Showing consistently, the 2017 Promontory has to be one of the greatest 2017s from Napa out there. Showing the full-bodied, elegant style of the vintage, it offers a beautiful perfume of ripe red and black currants, smoked tobacco, savory dried herbs, and scorched earth. It’s certainly accessible today, with ripe, integrated tannins, yet it has the balance and concentration to evolve for another two decades. (02/2023)

Deep purple-black colored, the 2017 Promontory struts out of the glass with bright, showy Morello cherries, mulberries, and blackcurrant preserves notes, leading to hints of cracked black pepper, rosehip tea, fallen leaves, and cinnamon stick. Medium to full-bodied, the palate has a taut frame of ripe, grainy tannins and beautiful freshness supporting the elegantly played perfumed fruit layers, finishing with tons of expression and class. This 2017 is a highly commendable achievement in a challenging vintage! While the winery won’t release it for another year, it should be drinking beautifully pretty much from the get-go, offering a good 25+ years of cellaring potential. (03/2022)

Winey and engaging, with steeped plum and blackberry fruit forming the core, while sleek, energetic apple wood and licorice snap accents fuel the finish. There's a hint of bramble along the edges, plus a long spine of dark earth and iron-accented minerality buried within. Impressive for the vintage. Best from 2024 through 2038.

- J.M.