Patland Estate Vineyards spotlight
Michael Patland on the official Patland Estate Vineyards channel presenting Proprietary Red, the Cabernet-led Napa blend in this bottle.
The market on this bottle
Wine-Searcher tracks this 2022 Patland Proprietary Red Napa Valley across the open market. Their published U.S. low is $33.02 and the average is $33.02. Our slash is $33.00.
2022 Patland Proprietary Red Napa Valley, USA
Michael Patland's 318-case Napa blend, Stagecoach fruit with Oaknoll and Viking, a 92-point 2022 you can open at thirty-three dollars.
The 2022 Proprietary Red is 61 percent Cabernet Sauvignon with Malbec, Syrah, Merlot, and Petit Verdot from Stagecoach, Oaknoll, and Viking, aged 20 months in 60 percent new French oak, now $33.
Three Napa vineyards, 318 cases, and a blend that still has a name
Patland does not hide the sources. Stagecoach, Oaknoll, and Viking fruit go into a five-variety, Cabernet-led blend, then 20 months in 60 percent new French oak. James Suckling 92: ripe, plush, blackberry liqueur, cassis, cocoa, cloves, vanilla. Three hundred eighteen cases. This is the bottle that argues a Napa proprietary red can still be a small-production wine you put on a Tuesday steak.
The house
Patland Estate Vineyards is a Napa family project. Michael Patland presents the Proprietary Red himself. The estate photos on this page are theirs.
The wine
61% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Malbec, 13% Syrah, 8% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot. 20 months, 60% new French oak.
The scores
James Suckling 92 for the exact 2022 vintage. Full-bodied, smooth tannin, chocolate and spice on the close.
The drinker
Decant 30 to 45 minutes. Serve 60 to 64 F. Coffee-rubbed rib-eye or grilled lamb chops.
Cherry, plum, violet, then toffee spice
Dark cherry and plum meet violet and blue fruit. Oak shows as toffee, cocoa, clove, and vanilla on polished structure rather than raw wood.
Harvest chemistry on the house record: 27.6 Brix, 5.98 g/L acidity, pH 3.65. Twenty months in barrel, 60 percent new French oak. A warm, concentrated Napa red year handled for polish.
Dark cherry, plum, violet, blue fruit, blackberry liqueur, cassis.
Full, smooth tannin, 20 months French oak, 60% new, Cabernet-led five-variety blend.
Toffee, cocoa, clove, vanilla. Decant 30 to 45 minutes. Serve 60 to 64 F.
Five varieties, three vineyards, one oak program
On the Patland record, the 2022 Proprietary Red is 61 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 14 percent Malbec, 13 percent Syrah, 8 percent Merlot, and 4 percent Petit Verdot from Stagecoach, Patland Oaknoll, and Viking. Twenty months in French oak, 60 percent new. The blend is the point: Cabernet for the frame, Syrah and Malbec for plush dark fruit, Merlot and Petit Verdot for the middle and the edge.
Three hundred eighteen cases. That is a small Napa red, not a supermarket blend with a pretty label.
Decant 30 to 45 minutes. Serve 60 to 64 F. Coffee-rubbed rib-eye or spice-marinated lamb chops.
A family Napa red with named vineyards
Patland built Proprietary Red as the house blend, not a leftover cuvee.
Stagecoach is mountain fruit. Oaknoll is cooler Napa. Viking is another Napa source in the 2022. The label does not pretend they are one estate block.
Michael Patland is on camera for this wine. The team photos on this page are the people who bottle it.
The 2022 is that family blend at 318 cases, with James Suckling 92 and enough oak to polish, not to shout.
Coffee-rubbed rib-eye, then spiced lamb
A Cabernet-led Napa blend wants char, spice, and fat. Coffee rub and grilled lamb meet cherry, cocoa, and oak.
Two plates. One coffee-rubbed rib-eye. One spice-marinated lamb chops. Both can take this 2022.
Decant 30 to 45 minutes. Serve 60 to 64 F.
Coffee-Rubbed Rib-Eye
Bobby Flay's coffee crust, a hard sear, a Napa steakhouse plate.
Why it works: Coffee and char echo cocoa and oak spice while beef fat softens Cabernet tannin.
View Recipe for Coffee-Rubbed Rib-Eye (opens in a new tab)
Spice-Marinated and Grilled Lamb Chops
Spice, char, and lamb fat. Syrah and Malbec in the blend have a place to land.
Why it works: Lamb and warm spice pull violet and dark fruit without burying the Cabernet frame.
View Recipe for spice-marinated grilled lamb chops (opens in a new tab)Put 318 cases of Napa blend in the cart
James Suckling 92. Stagecoach, Oaknoll, Viking. Thirty-three dollars.
Put it in the cart. This is Patland's Proprietary Red, small-production Napa, not a mystery blend.
