When proprietor Bill Harlan discovered a unique site between Oakville and Yountville in the mid 1980s during he went hiking in the Mayacamas mountains, it moved him deeply until the Harlan family finally acquired it in 2008. Bill’s son William Harlan is the managing director of Promontory who has successfully explored and worked with the tiny 80-acres of land, that includes a 35-acre vineyard at 500 to 1,000 foot elevations situated in rough country that is only accessible by a fire trail.
 
Promontory became the third projects from Bill Harlan after Harlan Estates and Bond, and it is very successful which received high scores from wine critics. Robert Parker describes Promontory
“probably the best way to compare them to the wines of Harlan Estate or the Bond single-vineyard projects is to describe them as more like a Napa version of a great St-Estèphe such as Château Montrose thanks to their spicy, earthy characteristics”. A magnificent wine, stocks of this benchmark Napa Cabernet are miniscule so please let us know if you would like to include into your collection -

2013 Promontory Napa Valley
HK$5,500 per bottle
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^Market Price: HK$6,939 per bottle
 
99pts Robert Parker
The best wine so far (although I suspect the 2015 may ultimately enter the picture as well) is the nearly perfect 2013 Promontory Estate. It is simply richer and fuller, with greater integration of tannin, and tastes spectacular. With an opaque, dense purple color and notes of graphite, wet rocks, blackberry and blueberry fruit, some charcoal, and again, loads of spice and loamy soil nuances, the wine has great intensity, a full-bodied texture, and finely grained, sweet tannin. This is a stunner and again, accessible, but its best days are probably a good decade away, as this could very well turn out to be a 40- to 50-year wine.
 
98+ pts Antonio Galloni
The 2013 Promontory was utterly spellbinding when I tasted it last year. Since then, it has totally shut down after its recent bottling. Beams of mountain tannin and salinity give the wine its vibrancy, energy and pure mineral-driven intensity. Graphite, leather, game, smoke and dark stone fruit overtones start to take shape, but the 2013 is in no mood to show all of its cards. The 2013 is the most brilliant wine made yet at Promontory, and it has plenty of upside.
 
Subject to final confirmation. ETA 6-8 weeks.