Jubilation Napa Valley Red Wine

Colgin’s Cariad, IX Estate and Tychson Hill are «Vins de garde»– complex wines that demand a certain amount of patience from us. And, let’s be perfectly honest, it’s not uncommon for our craving for a great Colgin wine to lead us to reach for a bottle that’s far too young – a wine that won’t reach its peak until several years down the line. Yes, I am one of those impatient types and have opened far too many bottles of Colgin, into which – frustrated that the wine was completely closed – I have pushed the cork back into the bottle and put the wine in the fridge. Always in the hope that time will sort the wine out and it will present itself perfectly the next day. But unfortunately, that has happened only very rarely. Why, you ask? I don’t know for certain, but I imagine that wines as complex as the great Colgins are only capable of giving their best if we allow them the necessary time to mature linearly in the bottle.

I am delighted to be able to introduce and offer you a wine that, even in its youth, offers us what we love so much about a mature, great Colgin wine.

Jubilation is not really a second wine; rather, it is a wine that has been blended with the intention of bringing us great pleasure without us having to wait decades.

Jubilation brings together all the barrels from across the Colgin range that have developed more rapidly during ageing, are already accessible in the barrique and, once in the bottle, deliver incredible pleasure after just a few years of maturation. Almost as if we had a 25-year-old, mature IX Estate in the glass.

If you like Colgin wines, I can only recommend that you not only add Jubilation to your cellar, but also open a bottle immediately upon delivery to check whether the wine has already reached the point where it meets your expectations. The wine has the potential to do so, I promise.