About Saddleback Cellars
Nils Venge's 1982 Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon estate — the pioneering winemaker who produced the first 100-point California Cab for Groth in 1985 (the
Saddleback Cellars is the personal estate of Nils Venge — the most historically consequential Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon winemaker of the modern California wine era and the man whose technical expertise produced the 1985 Groth Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon that became the first California red wine to receive a perfect 100-point score from Robert Parker.
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Saddleback Cellars isSaddleback Cellars is the personal estate of Nils Venge — the most historically consequential Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon winemaker of the modern California wine era and the man whose technical expertise produced the 1985 Groth Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon that became the first California red wine to receive a perfect 100-point score from Robert Parker.
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Nils Venge establishedNils Venge established the Money Road Oakville estate in 1982 with a personal philosophy of producing Cabernet Sauvignon of maximum quality from carefully farmed Oakville benchland terrain.
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The historic consequencesThe historic consequences of Nils Venge's winemaking expertise extend across three decades and multiple estates: beyond the Groth perfect-score achievement, Venge's consulting work for Screaming Eagle in the estate's earliest vintages helped establish what would become California's most allocation-coveted and highest-priced cult Cabernet Sauvignon program.
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Cabernet Sauvignon
Venge Family Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
Oakville / Saddleback Estate
Nils Venge's most historically consequential and personally accumulated-expertise personal estate expression — Venge Family Reserve Oakville Cabernet from the winemaker who produced California's first 100-point red wine and founded Screaming Eagle's technical legacy, showing the warm, structured, food-compatible Oakville benchland character of the most historically Napa-winemaking-significant personal estate program.
Estate
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Cabernet Sauvignon
Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Oakville / Saddleback Estate
Saddleback's most broadly accessible Nils Venge personal estate Cab — Oakville benchland Cabernet from the Money Road estate at the most approachable pricing tier of the most historically consequential Oakville Cabernet winemaker's personal estate program, warm and food-compatible with the Venge-accumulated Oakville benchland expertise.
Estate
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Pinot Grigio
Pinot Grigio
Napa Valley / Saddleback Estate
Saddleback's most personally curious and Italian-variety-committed estate white — Napa Valley Pinot Grigio from Nils Venge's personal estate program showing the crisp, food-first character that the most historically consequential Oakville Cabernet winemaker's most personally curious varietal expression consistently produces in the most immediate and food-compatible white wine format of the most accumulated-expertise Oakville winemaker's personal estate.
Estate
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Tasting Experiences
Book on Tock →California's Perfect Score Pioneer Appointment
Appointment with the winemaker who produced California's first-ever 100-point red wine (1985 Groth Reserve) and helped found Screaming Eagle's technical legacy — Venge Family Reserve and estate Oakville Cabernet from Nils Venge's personal Money Road estate. The most historically Napa-winemaking-significant and personally accumulated-expertise Oakville appointment.
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