Contains one bottle each of Meyer Family Bon Bon Cabernet, '15, '16, and '18.
Here’s an article from the Napa Valley Register which puts into context just how special these rare Oakville Cabernet treasures (only 126 cases of the great 2015 were made…and this is the only way to get it now) are:
Napa Valley Register – New “Classic Cab” released - “Bonny’s Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon returns after 12-year absence. The 3.8 acres that makes up Bonny’s Vineyard surrounds Bonny Meyer’s home in Oakville, where she has lived for the past 35 years. Her late husband, winemaker Justin Meyer, named the vineyard after her. Back in 1979, Justin and Bonny Meyer, owners of Silver Oak Cellars, first produced 400 cases of the single-vineyard-designated Cabernet Sauvignon from Bonny’s Vineyard. Today, Justin and Bonny’s son, Matt, along with his wife, Karen, winemakers in their own right, produce 2,000 cases of Syrah and 1,500 cases of Port at the Meyer Family Cellars in Yorkville. They’re also making a Cabernet Sauvignon made from grapes grown in a once-famous Oakville vineyard: not Mondavi’s fabled To Kalon, but the much smaller Bonny’s Vineyard.
It is this wine that will bring back memories for those who recognize the “Meyer” name. Matt said those initial 400 cases made from Bonny’s Vineyard were nowhere near enough to satisfy Silver Oak’s customers — “every state would get a case,” Matt said, and the wine would be sold out within 24 hours. But his father’s decision, in 1979, to make wine from a single vineyard was considered “very hip at the time,” he added. After 12 vintages, the late Justin Meyer decided to stop producing the wine, his son said, because it would just make prospective customers “unhappy 364 days a year” when they stopped by the winery, and were unable to buy any Cabernet Sauvignon made from Bonny’s Vineyard.”
During a recent visit to the Oakville vineyard, Matt talked about the conscious decisions that were made in creating the 2003 Bonny’s Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon. “To us, it was most important to re-create the general style of wine made by my father,” Matt said. “The style of this wine is like those produced in the 1980s, a classic style with lower alcohol, more acidity and some fruit and spice — not big gobs of fruit — but with green and vegetable characteristics.” When asked what is the best part about the new wine, Bonny replied, “Obviously, I have an emotional attachment to the vineyard, but the wine tastes so much like the Silver Oak wine. In essence, it’s a gift from my husband.”
Matt said, “It’s really scary that we’re making this wine. I think we achieved what we wanted. It’s not the modern-style, but the classic style that my dad nailed in the mid-‘80s… In the past few weeks, Bonny said she tasted the wine against others in her cellar, including a Cabernet Sauvignon from Screaming Eagle, also produced in Oakville. She said the 2003 Bonny’s Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon had a “balance that was lovely.”
The ”Bon Bon” is the very small portion from their Bonny’s Vineyard that they age in all new French oak (hence the name) – and it has enjoyed even greater success (and press) than even the Bonny’s has (as well as the historic Silver Oak Bonny’s Cabernets). It’s also much harder to find. Four stores, for instance, still have the 2015 Meyer Family Bonny’s Cabernet…but neither the winery nor any other store has the 2015 Bon Bon.