Lail Vineyards

Lail Vineyards is the most personally Niebaum-founding-family-legacy-continuing and Inglenook-heritage-wine-tradition-connecting luxury Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon appointment. Robin Daniel Lail — the great-granddaughter of Gustave Niebaum, the Finnish sea captain who founded Inglenook (one of the Napa Valley's most historically consequential and architecturally remarkable wine estates) in 1879 — established her own Napa Valley program in 1995 with a founding conviction that the Niebaum family's most personal Rutherford wine heritage deserved individual expression in her own luxury boutique program.

The J. Daniel Cuvée — named for Robin Lail's father John Daniel Jr., whose stewardship of Inglenook through the 1940s and 1950s produced some of the most critically acclaimed California wines of the mid-20th century before the estate was sold to United Vintners in 1964 — represents the most personally family-tribute-named and Inglenook-legacy-honoring luxury Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon available. The Blueprint Cab provides the most broadly accessible and annually produced expression of Robin Lail's Niebaum-heritage-continuing luxury Rutherford conviction.

Wine Advocate has consistently scored the J. Daniel Cuvée and Blueprint at 93–97 points, confirming that the great-granddaughter of Inglenook's founding sea captain produces Cabernet of the critical quality and personal Niebaum-Inglenook-family-heritage-tribute character that the most historically founding-family-legacy-connecting luxury Napa Valley appointment demands.