Wine of the Year's Best of the Best

Our Angels have spoken and the 2024 Wine of the Year winner is F. Stephen Millier Black Label California Cabernet Sauvignon 2022. Out of 39 nominees, this bottle earned a special place in Angels' hearts (and glasses).

He's your returning champion — Stephen can trade his straw hat for a crown

More than 23,000 Angel votes were counted — and the Calaveras cowboy's Black Label California Cabernet Sauvignon reigns supreme. It's one of the most loved wines…ever, with a 95% lifetime score, over 50,000 ratings and hundreds of written reviews from raving Angels.

This Cabernet is a standout, bursting with ripe black fruit, delicious toasty flavors from oak barrel aging and a velvety rich finish. It's the kind of red that tastes like a million bucks — but won't come anywhere near breaking the budget. It's no surprise that Stephen's Cab won wine of the year again…it's just that good!

Stephen may have made this winning wine — but you helped fund it! Give yourself a pat on the back and congratulate Stephen for winning the ultimate Naked prize - Wine of the Year.

Your 2024 Category Winners

Fine wine category

Matt Parish The AVA Collection Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

This decadent Reserve Napa Cabernet is as good as it gets! Matt uses Angel-funding to source Cabernet from a single vineyard in Napa’s famed Oakville area- where you’ll find the most sought-after Cab in the world. This luxurious red is full of complex dark fruit flavors and toasty oak from 18 months of premium French oak aging. It took Matt nearly 5 years to make this wine and now fewer than 300 cases exist — and it’s about to be in even hotter demand!
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Red category

F. Stephen Millier Black Label California Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

An elegant Cabernet — and a bona fide Angel classic. It’s bursting with ripe black cherry flavor and velvety richness from time spent aging in French and American oak barrels. Thanks to Angel funding, Stephen blended fruit from California’s big red country, Lodi with grapes from his own estate in the Sierra foothills. We’d expect nothing less from your most popular winemaker!
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White category

Patrice Grasset Vin de France Sauvignon Blanc 2021

Patrice’s zippy Sauvignon Blanc hits all the right notes — zinging with bright citrus and just a dash of spice with a silky finish. He harvested grapes from some of France’s best vineyards (like the Loire Valley!) for this elegant white you’ll reach for again and again. He says this vintage is “a wine to please and ease the taste buds”, and Angels couldn’t agree more!
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Sparkling & Rosé category

Matt Parish Carneros Sonoma Rose of Pinot Noir 2022

Delicate and refined all at once, Matt’s delicate Sonoma Rosé is the ultimate refreshing sipper. With the help of Angel funding, he used hand-harvested grapes from the Carneros region, which were then cool fermented to capture all the fruity intensity of Pinot Noir in this bright Rosé. A thirst-quenching treat with an elevated touch from your world-class Cab king!
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Shop your best wines of the year

Now you can shop the nominees of Wine of the Year to discover new wines backed with TONS of Angel approval. Based on hundreds of thousands of Angels ratings and reviews, and the lifetime popularity of the wines in the competition — this is the ultimate shopping list of your highest-rated wines.

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