About Cellar Selections

Cellar Selection is a designation for wines or beers that our tasting panels feel will improve with proper aging in climate-controlled conditions, like a wine cellar or basement. 

In red wines, cellaring will give the wine's initially coarse tannins time to separate and settle, making way for the full potential of its structural elements and flavor to shine. 

In white wines, aging has numerous beneficial effects on sugar and acidity, especially in many substantial dessert and sparkling wines: flavors become more integrated and mineral, nutty, and yeast-driven secondary and tertiary flavors can emerge. 



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Best Cellar Selections For Wine

Weis Vineyards 2018 Ice Wine Riesling
97 points
$89
Beautiful complexity of flavor with light florals and minerality as counterpoints to its pronounced stone fruit, orchard fruit, and tropical citrus tones; this is world class Eiswein.
Awards: '2024 New York Wine Classic - Best Dessert Wine' 2024 New York Wine Classic - Governor's Cup Winner - Best Wine
AvinoDos 2021 Single Vineyard Founders Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
95 points
$120
A decadent, yet delicate Diamond Mountain Cabernet with deep wells of fruit, judicious spicy oak, and pitch perfect minerality to tie it all together; the total package.
Mira Winery 2016 Hyde Vineyard Merlot
95 points
$75
An absolute delight; a fully ripe to the edge of brooding, red and black fruit loaded Merlot with just the right amount of oak.
Mira Winery 2019 Schweizer Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
94 points
$150
An alluring, seamless and sensuous Stags Leap District Cabernet that hits all of the high notes in a classy and captivating way.
The Beau Vigne Collection 2023 Cult Cabernet Sauvignon
94 points
$125
A plush, dense packed Napa Cabernet with lots to offer now and will be even better with a little cellaring.
Collina San Ponzio 2021 "Fossati" Barolo DOCG
94 points
$85
A rich, layered Barolo that deftly meshes fruit and earth notes and has enough stuffing and tannins for a long haul in the cellar.
Awards: 2025 Best Barolo
Levendi 2022 Mystique Merlot
94 points
$55
Take note Bordeaux, Napa Valley opulence meets French elegance in this layered, complex and deftly balanced Merlot with satisfying flavors of bacon jam, blood orange and grilled cherries.
Arrington Vineyards 2021 KB 15*21 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
94 points
$58
With its restrained oak, this Cab Sauv is able to show off its high quality of complex, phenolically ripe mountain fruit; a real winner.
Perrier-Jouët 2015 Belle Époque Brut Champagne
94 points
$229
Complex and layered, this gem is drinking incredibly well now and will likely adapt and improve over the next decade or so in your cellar if you have the patience to wait to pop it.
Vilano 2021  Ribera Del Duero
94 points
$64
Forget this in your cellar for a decade or so to find a fruity and savory gem of complexity as a reward for your patience.