About Cellar Selections

Cellar Selection is a designation for wines or beers that our tasting panels feel will improve with proper aging in climate-controlled conditions, like a wine cellar or basement. 

In red wines, cellaring will give the wine's initially coarse tannins time to separate and settle, making way for the full potential of its structural elements and flavor to shine. 

In white wines, aging has numerous beneficial effects on sugar and acidity, especially in many substantial dessert and sparkling wines: flavors become more integrated and mineral, nutty, and yeast-driven secondary and tertiary flavors can emerge. 



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Best Cellar Selections For Red Wine

Jarvis 2021  Cabernet Franc
96 points
$245
This luxurious, earthy Cab Franc delivers textbook cherry-herb flavors with Napa opulence; a head turner for what this Bordeaux-Loire varietal can achieve in Napa.
Collina San Ponzio 2022  Barolo DOCG
95 points
$44
It will be hard to not open a second bottle of this cellar-worthy Barolo, long, rich, layered and balanced, delicious now and will do nothing except improve.
AvinoDos 2021 Single Vineyard Founders Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
95 points
$120
A decadent, yet delicate Diamond Mountain Cabernet with deep wells of fruit, judicious spicy oak, and pitch perfect minerality to tie it all together; the total package.
Guy Mousset 2025  Côtes-Du-Rhône Rouge
94 points
$14
Best Buy
A plush, delicious Cotes-du-Rhone with rich berry fruit, subtle oak, and a great chewy texture that will make it the perfect foil for rich and spicy meat dishes; will appeal to New World drinkers as well as Old.
94 points $14 Best Buy
The Beau Vigne Collection 2024 Cult Cabernet Sauvignon
94 points
$125
A silky and seamless Napa Cabernet with ample fruit, judicious oak, and chewy tannins on a long finish; enjoy now with a great cut of steak, or cellar for a few years and it will reward your patience.
Jarvis 2019  Petit Verdot
94 points
$255
Opulent fruit is balanced with violet, soft tannins and chocolate in this concentrated, laser-focused single varietal.
Mira Winery 2019 Schweizer Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
94 points
$150
An alluring, seamless and sensuous Stags Leap District Cabernet that hits all of the high notes in a classy and captivating way.
The Beau Vigne Collection 2023 Cult Cabernet Sauvignon
94 points
$125
A plush, dense packed Napa Cabernet with lots to offer now and will be even better with a little cellaring.
Collina San Ponzio 2021 "Fossati" Barolo DOCG
94 points
$85
A rich, layered Barolo that deftly meshes fruit and earth notes and has enough stuffing and tannins for a long haul in the cellar.
Awards: 2025 Best Barolo
Levendi 2022 Mystique Merlot
94 points
$55
Take note Bordeaux, Napa Valley opulence meets French elegance in this layered, complex and deftly balanced Merlot with satisfying flavors of bacon jam, blood orange and grilled cherries.