WINE: Your ChapterThis is what it was always becoming.
Seventeen Poets ⧫ Napa Valley
The Current Collection
Each bottle a new chapter. The story, still being written.
(And directly below those words, three clickable text links sitting side by side)
2022 17 Poets Cabernet Sauvignon
The Hard Year.
Some vintages arrive without warning. In 2022, a season of promise met an unprecedented September heatwave that forced every winemaker in Napa to make decisions no playbook had prepared them for. What emerged from that pressure, from those impossible choices made in real time, is a wine of immediate beauty. Approachable, fruit-forward, honest. The volume turned down. The truth turned up.
This is the vintage that reminds you that the best things are rarely made in easy conditions.
2023 17 Poets Cabernet Sauvignon
The Patient Year.
2023 asked something different of everyone who farmed it, the willingness to wait. One of the longest growing seasons in a decade unfolded slowly, coolly, without drama or heat spike. The fruit took its time. The winemaker took his. What emerged is a wine of remarkable freshness, purity, and elegance, the product of a season that rewarded those willing to trust the process rather than rush it.
Some years teach through hardship. This one taught through patience.
2023 Abandoned Saints
The Patient Year.
What emerged is a wine of remarkable freshness, purity, and elegance, the product of a season that rewarded those willing to trust the process rather than rush it.
The Winemaker
Some collaborations are planned. This one was inevitable.
Thomas Rivers Brown and Todd Newman first crossed paths at Revana Family Vineyards — a brief overlap at a moment when both were building toward something larger. Todd was on the verge of launching Dakota Shy Wine. Thomas was already establishing himself as one of the most gifted winemakers in the valley. The timing wasn't right. Todd chose loyalty over talent for that first project and walked away from what could have been.
Dakota Shy became something extraordinary anyway. So did Thomas.
Years later, when Todd began building 17 Poets, there was only one name. Not because of the reputation — though that reputation is without equal in Napa — but because of what Thomas believes about wine. That it should find its own center. That the winemaker's job is to listen more than intervene. That the land, the fruit, and the season know something the cellar shouldn't contradict.
That philosophy and Todd's own story are cut from the same cloth — built on restraint, patience, and the belief that the best things emerge rather than get forced.
What's in the bottle is what happens when two people who understand that — finally — work together.
Made for the moment you decide is worth marking.
Every bottle carries what it cost to make it and what it means to share it — at the table you built, with the people who matter. Your chapter starts here.
