About Outpost Wines
Thomas Brown's Howell Mountain cult program — the consulting winemaker behind Schrader Cellars, Bryant Family Vineyard, and Levy & McClellan produces
Outpost Wines is Thomas Brown's personal Howell Mountain wine project — the estate label that allows California's most sought-after Cabernet Sauvignon consulting winemaker to produce wine from the specific mountain terroir he has identified as his own most compelling and personally meaningful Napa Valley Cabernet growing environment.
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Outpost Wines isOutpost Wines is Thomas Brown's personal Howell Mountain wine project — the estate label that allows California's most sought-after Cabernet Sauvignon consulting winemaker to produce wine from the specific mountain terroir he has identified as his own most compelling and personally meaningful Napa Valley Cabernet growing environment.
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Thomas Brown's consultingThomas Brown's consulting client list is extraordinary: Schrader Cellars, Bryant Family Vineyard, Realm Cellars, Levy & McClellan, and dozens of other premium and cult Napa Valley Cabernet programs rely on Brown's palate and technical precision to produce their most critically acclaimed vintages.
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The Wine AdvocateThe Wine Advocate has scored wines produced under Thomas Brown's direction at 97–100 points on multiple occasions across multiple client estates.
"Thomas Brown's Howell Mountain cult program — the consulting winemaker behind Schrader Cellars, Bryant Family Vineyard, "
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Cabernet Sauvignon
Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon
Howell Mountain / Outpost Estate
Thomas Brown's personal Howell Mountain flagship — Outpost Cabernet from volcanic basalt terrain above the fog line consistently earning 93–97 points from Wine Advocate for the most concentratedly structured and technically precise Howell Mountain Cab that California's most sought-after Cabernet consulting winemaker produces under his own personal estate label.
Estate
★★★★☆
Zinfandel
Howell Mountain Zinfandel
Howell Mountain / Outpost Estate
Outpost's most unexpected and personally distinctive expression — Howell Mountain Zinfandel from Thomas Brown's volcanic estate above the fog line, one of California's most seriously mountain-terrain-produced and technically precise Zinfandel programs showing what the most sought-after Cab winemaker produces in California's most characteristically local red variety from extreme volcanic elevation.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon Blend
Estate Red
Howell Mountain / Outpost Estate
Outpost's most comprehensively assembled estate expression — Estate Red blending Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon with Petite Sirah and other varieties in the most complete and volcanic-mountain-ambitious statement of Thomas Brown's personal winemaking conviction applied to the most concentratedly structured Napa Valley mountain sub-appellation.
Estate
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Appointment with the personal estate label of California's most sought-after Cab consulting winemaker — Outpost Howell Mountain Cabernet and Zinfandel at 93–97 points from Thomas Brown's volcanic basalt above-fog-line mountain conviction. The most technically precise and personally winemaker-autonomous mountain appointment in the Howell Mountain appellation.
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