Harlan Estate

Harlan Estate is the most consistently 100-point-scoring and most allocation-impossible luxury Cabernet Sauvignon in California. Bill Harlan — the real estate developer who purchased Oakville hillside terrain in 1984 with the founding ambition to produce a first-growth-quality Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon that would stand alongside the finest wines of the world — built what has become the single most critically decorated and most collector-sought luxury Napa Valley wine program.

The Harlan Estate Proprietary Red — produced from carefully selected Oakville and Oak Knoll hillside estate blocks with winemaker Bob Levy's most precision-accumulated minimal-intervention approach — has earned Wine Advocate scores of 96–100 points in virtually every vintage since the early 1990s. The decade-long waiting list for allocation, the five-figure secondary market prices, and the international critical consensus that Harlan Estate produces one of the most perfectly balanced and most age-worthy luxury Cabernet Sauvignon programs in the world have made Bill Harlan's founding ambition one of the most fully realized in California wine history.

Harlan Estate is not open to the public. The wine is distributed exclusively through a private allocation list to long-standing customers. For the most accessible encounter with Bill Harlan's winemaking philosophy, The Mascot — the Harlan Estate second label — is available through select fine wine retailers and provides the most direct Harlan-philosophy-winemaking encounter outside the primary Harlan Estate allocation program.