Promontory

Promontory is Bill Harlan's most geologically dramatic and rockiest-terrain second estate — the Mayacamas Mountain property that the founder of Harlan Estate identified as the most dramatically rocky and geologically extreme growing environment capable of producing Cabernet Sauvignon of extraordinary natural concentration and individual character beyond anything the Harlan Estate Oakville hillside program had previously demonstrated.

The Promontory estate terrain — where exposed bedrock outcroppings, volcanic breccia, and fractured mountain soils create vine-growing conditions of extreme natural stress and minimal productive topsoil — produces Cabernet Sauvignon of the most dramatically concentrated and most individually rocky-mountain-terrain-specifically-character that any Napa Valley growing environment delivers. The Promontory and Tatou Cabernet Sauvignon expressions represent Bill Harlan's most personally geologically-dramatic-rocky-terrain-discovery and most ambitiously new-estate-founding luxury Napa Valley project.

Wine Advocate has scored Promontory and Tatou Cabernet Sauvignon at 95–99 points across multiple vintages, placing this most personally Harlan-second-estate-geologically-dramatic and most rockiest-Mayacamas-Mountain-terrain-specifically-identified luxury Napa Valley project among the most critically perfect and most allocation-impossible new wine programs established in the Napa Valley in the past decade.