Royal Prince · Maayan Koschitzky
2021 Royal Prince Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley, USA
A place on your wine list
Maayan Koschitzky's negociant Napa Cabernet. Decanter 94 and The Tasting Panel 94 on this 2021. Twenty-five hundred cases.
Winery SRP $95 per bottle
Why this bottle belongs on the list
Two selling points.
Then the market.
Maayan Koschitzky is Wine Enthusiast's 40 Under 40 Tastemaker.
Koschitzky is Director of Winemaking at Atelier Melka. Wine Enthusiast named him a 2019 40 Under 40 Tastemaker. He came to Napa from Israel in 2011, worked at Screaming Eagle and Dalla Valle, then built this negociant Cabernet with David Green. Royal Prince is his sole negociant project: blue-chip access without blue-chip ceremony.
One hundred percent Cabernet. Twenty-five hundred cases.
The 2021 is 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, aged 20 months in mostly new French oak, 14.9 percent alcohol, 2,500 cases. David Green's sourcing book and Koschitzky's blending eye meet in one Napa bottle. This is not a leftover lot from a cult house. It is the Cabernet they built to open.
Professional scores
What the press wrote on this vintage.
Named critic scores on this exact 2021. Wine-Searcher aggregate 90 is a separate tile.
The buyer's perspective
What the guest
hears first.
Decanter 94. The Tasting Panel 94. Jeb Dunnuck 93+. Wine Enthusiast 90. Winery SRP is $95. Wine-Searcher averages about $50. Trade is $26 a bottle. Staff can sell it in one sentence: Koschitzky's Napa Cabernet, two 94s, pour it with steak and fries.
Winemaker's corner
Atelier Melka · 40 Under 40 · negociant Napa Cabernet
Maayan
Koschitzky
Maayan was born and raised in Israel and moved to Napa in 2011. He refined his craft at cult Napa cellars, then became Director of Winemaking at Atelier Philippe Melka, walking vineyards from Russian River Pinot through Howell Mountain Cabernet.
Wine Enthusiast named him a 2019 40 Under 40 Tastemaker. Robb Report has profiled the work. On a winter night in 2018 he and David Green stood in David's kitchen with a sample of Royal Prince Pinot before roast chicken. David later bought out his investors and made Maayan an equity partner.
The photograph on this page is Maayan. Royal Prince is the negociant Cabernet he builds with Green. The 2021 is 100 percent Cabernet, 2,500 cases, meant to drink now and hold through the next decade.
The house
A negociant Napa Cabernet, not a trophy estate.
Royal Prince is David Green and Maayan Koschitzky. Green brings Napa operating time at Dana Estates, Lancaster Estate, Joel Gott, and Lede Family. Koschitzky brings the Melka cellar. Together they sit at the front of the line for vineyard contracts and extra barrels.
The 2021 Cabernet is 100 percent varietal, 20 months in mostly new French oak, 14.9 percent alcohol. Production is 2,500 cases. Decanter noted the collaboration by name. ACME Fine Wines called the 2021 density, opulence, and rich texture.
This is not a single-vineyard wine and not a restaurant-only allocation. Serve it as Napa Cabernet on a steak list, the bottle that argues you can open Napa without a cult tax.
2021 in the glass
Cassis.
Dried violet.
Graphite and loamy earth.
Decanter (94) wrote that the 2021 opens with dark berry fruit, dried violets, creme de cassis, leather, charcuterie, and intensely rich, dark, loamy earth. Medium to full-bodied, broad-shouldered, muscular tannins with an exacting, fine-grained quality, and a long earthy dried-violet finish. Aged 20 months in mostly new French oak. The Tasting Panel (94) found dense blackberry and plum skin, tongue-coating, with bold coffee-bean tannin. Jeb Dunnuck (93+) called it classic Cabernet: cassis, black cherry, sappy herbs, graphite, minerality, ripe building tannin. Wine Enthusiast (90, Elaine Chukan Brown) noted mixed berries, bay laurel, cracked pepper, cocoa, and sweet cassis. 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon. Decant 60 to 90 minutes.
Menu and service
Built for a serious table.
- Skirt steak with peppercorn sauce and fries
- Grilled rib-eye with a red-wine reduction
- Wild mushroom risotto
Decant 60 to 90 minutes. Serve around 60 to 64 F in a generous Cabernet stem.
Staff pairing clip
Gordon Ramsay cooks steak dinner with fries
The tableside introduction
“This is Royal Prince, Maayan Koschitzky's Napa Cabernet, 2,500 cases. Decanter 94, The Tasting Panel 94. Pour it with steak and fries.”
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A concise bottle story for guest-facing displays. No trade price.
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The pitch, menu matches, and service notes in a compact format.
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Koschitzky, Green, tasting, market context, and the case offer.
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Put Royal Prince Cabernet on the list.
Koschitzky's Napa Cabernet, 2,500 cases. Trade $26 a bottle, $312 the twelve-bottle case, one-case minimum.
