Very limited!
 
An ethereal beauty showing extraordinary purity, balance and inner energy. Aromas of ripe blue and black berries, lead pencil, mocha, white flowers, mountain herbs, and spices leap from the glass, all overlain by Rutherford dust. The fine ripe tannins and natural acidity support the concentrated flavors seamlessly, conferring verve and grace.
-My personal favorite and the most aromatically complex wine in the lineup. All charm!
Blend: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. Only 7 barrels produced (175 cases)!
 
Beckstoffer GIII Vineyard
Cabernet Sauvignon
Rutherford
We first gained access to this storied site in 2018, and we’ve been pleased with the results ever since. You can’t ask for more quintessentially Rutherford raw materials, and the wine that emerges features balance with power, loamy-dusty red and black fruit, and a pliant, fresh personality. Designed by German artist Felix Dolah, the label depicts The Three Graces: Zeus’s daughters Euphrosyne, Aglaea, and Thalia, who were said to represent youth and beauty, mirth, and elegance. Dolah’s water and charcoal images play with impressionist figures and negative space.
Terroir
Purchased by Andy Beckstoffer in 1988, 60 years after Georges de Latour bought the site to supply so many legendary Beaulieu Vineyards wines, Georges III is a Rutherford valley floor benchmark vineyard, sought after by many producers. We source Cabernet from both the younger and older blocks of this storied site, and by “younger,” we mean vines that are at least 20 years old. Many of the vines that provide our fruit once supplied Schrader Cellars’ bottlings. While the loamy soils all contribute to the earthy goût de terroir this vineyard is famous for, the L Block in particular has a pronounced Rutherford dust aroma.
 
Vice Versa was founded by Ottawa native and entrepreneur Patrice Breton. From his youth, Patrice always sought a vocation that would combine his passions: creativity, science, art and culture, and he finally found this nexus in Vice Versa. 2024 will mark Vice Versa’s 22nd vintage in the Napa Valley. Patrice learned winemaking at the side of Paul Hobbs who produced several vintages in the early 2000s with Patrice but were never released. Patrice learned as much as he could during his time directly working with Hobbs. The first commercial release of Vice Versa was from the 2003 vintage. Paul was winemaker from 2003 through 2013. When Paul began to become busier with his own consulting clients and international projects Philippe Melka and his team including winemaker Maayan Koschitzky were brought on board to craft the wines. They made some changes in the winemaking including introducing longer fermentation times, longer maceration times and never using any pressed juice.
Today, Spencer Kelly heads a winemaking team which also includes Philippe Melka and Maayan Koschitzky of Atelier Melka. They and every other member of our coterie are driven by passion for our shared métier.
We acquired an estate vineyard in Calistoga in 2019, and the summer of 2024 will see the launch of a new winery facility there. Our greatest wines are perpetually ahead of us.
Their labels have been designed by two of the best in the business – first by Chuck House of Icon Design Group and a more recent completely different iteration by Napa based Richard Von Saal of VonSaal Design which ties in an image relating to ‘vice versa’ using curvilinear lines while also representing the Fibonacci sequence (where each subsequent number is the addition of the two preceding ones, starting from 0 and 1).