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Austin Hope Cabernet Sauvignon: Vintages, Oak and Prices in 2026
Austin Hope Cabernet from Paso Robles: the family, districts and oak by vintage, plus prices from 3,095 shops, 420 auction sales and 1,189 restaurants.
Austin Hope Cabernet Sauvignon is the best-known wine of Hope Family Wines in Paso Robles. Austin Hope makes it from Cabernet grown across the Paso Robles AVA, and he released the first one in 2017 (Hope Family Wines). In our data it has more sellers than any other Hope Family wine.
Below is what the winery has published about the family, the vineyards and each vintage, and what the wine sells for today in shops, at auction and on restaurant lists. Cellar figures come from the winery's own fact sheets. The prices come from Wine Labs data collected on November 4, 2026.
Austin Hope Cabernet at a glance
| Producer | Austin Hope Winery, part of Hope Family Wines, Paso Robles |
| Owners | The Hope family |
| First release | 2017 |
| Grapes | Cabernet Sauvignon |
| Winery price | $62 for the 2024 |
| Typical shop price | $66 (median of 3,095 sellers) |
| Typical auction price | $36 a bottle, buyer's premium included (420 sales) |
The Hope family in Paso Robles
The Hopes moved from Bakersfield to Paso Robles between 1978 and 1980 and planted their first vineyard east of the Salinas River. From the late 1980s, Hope Farms sold Cabernet grapes to Chuck Wagner of Caymus for his second label, Liberty School. In 1996 the family took over the Liberty School label and founded Treana (Hope Family Wines timeline).
Austin Hope graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in fruit science in 1995 and became assistant winemaker for the family. He took over as Treana Red winemaker in 1998, and in 2000 he launched Austin Hope Winery, first focused on Rhône-style wines. Hope Family Wines became the umbrella company for all the family's labels in 2009 (timeline).
The Austin Hope label stayed with Rhône varieties from the family's estate vineyard until 2017, when Austin released his first Cabernet Sauvignon (Hope Family Wines). The oldest Cabernet fact sheet the winery publishes is for the 2015, bottled on August 22, 2017 (2015 fact sheet). The fact sheets quote Austin Hope as owner and winemaker.
Where the fruit comes from
The winery picks vineyards and growers for this wine from all over the Paso Robles AVA (2023 fact sheet). Across all its brands, the family works with more than 50 growers, and it buys only from growers certified under the SIP sustainability program (Hope Family Wines).
The mix of districts changes each year. The 2015 drew on five: Creston, Estrella, Adelaida, El Pomar and Willow Creek (2015 fact sheet). The 2021 came from nine of the eleven districts, including Templeton Gap and San Miguel (2021 fact sheet). The 2024 used six, with most of the fruit from Creston, Paso Robles Highlands, Estrella and Geneseo, at 900 to 1,700 feet (2024 fact sheet).
Austin Hope vintages and oak
The fact sheets list the grape as Cabernet Sauvignon but do not give a blend breakdown, so we show the oak and sourcing instead. The oak plan changed in 2018. The first three vintages spent 16 to 18 months in 75% new French oak. From 2018, each vineyard lot is aged on its own in mostly used French oak, and the final blend gets a short finish of two or three months in 75% new French oak.
| Vintage | Paso Robles districts | Oak | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | 18 months, 75% new French | Fact sheet |
| 2016 | 5 | 18 months, 75% new French | Fact sheet |
| 2017 | 5 | 16 months, 75% new French | Fact sheet |
| 2018 | 5 | 11 months in lots (10% new), then 3 months, 75% new | Fact sheet |
| 2019 | 6 | 11 months in lots (10% new), then 3 months, 75% new | Fact sheet |
| 2020 | 9 | 11 months in lots (10% new), then 2 months, 75% new | Fact sheet |
| 2021 | 9 | 11 months in lots (10% new), then 2 months, 75% new | Fact sheet |
| 2022 | 7 | 14 months in lots (no new oak), then 2 months, 75% new | Fact sheet |
| 2023 | 6 | 15 months in lots (no new oak), then 2 months, 75% new | Fact sheet |
| 2024 | 6 | 15 months in lots (no new oak), then 2 months, 75% new | Fact sheet |
All barrels are French oak. The lots ferment separately in stainless steel for 10 to 14 days, and the wine is racked only twice (2024 fact sheet).
What Austin Hope Cabernet costs today
On November 4, 2026, 3,095 sellers had Austin Hope Cabernet on offer in a 750 ml bottle. Almost all are in the US (2,980 sellers), with 37 in Vietnam, 27 in Mexico and 21 in Canada. Half of all offers sit between $50 and $76, and the median is $66. The winery sells the 2024 for $62 (Hope Family Wines).
Per 750 ml bottle, US dollars, November 2026.
| Channel | Price | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Auction | $36 | Median of 420 sales, buyer's premium included |
| Winery, 2024 release | $62 | hopefamilywines.com list price |
| Shops | $66 | Median of 3,095 sellers, all vintages |
| Restaurants | $95 | Median of 1,189 wine lists |
These four prices don't measure the same thing. The winery price is for the current release. Shop prices mix vintages. Auction prices are what one lot sold for, with the buyer's premium but before shipping, tax and storage. A restaurant price includes service.
Shops ask $61 to $80 for the 2017 to 2024 vintages. The 2015 is rare in shops: six sellers, with a median of $210. At auction the gap is wide. The 2019, with 156 sales, sold for a median of $30, and the 2020 for $33. The 2015 is the only vintage above $70 at auction, at $76.
Medians per 750 ml. Vintages with at least five shop sellers and five auction sales.
| Vintage | Shop median | Auction median |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | $210 | $76 |
| 2017 | $80 | $43 |
| 2018 | $80 | $36 |
| 2019 | $70 | $30 |
| 2021 | $65 | $47 |
| 2022 | $65 | $48 |
| 2023 | $65 | $42 |
| Vintage | Shop sellers | Shop median | Auction sales | Auction median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | $210 | 38 | $76 |
| 2016 | 3 | n/a | 26 | $60 |
| 2017 | 32 | $80 | 42 | $43 |
| 2018 | 7 | $80 | 66 | $36 |
| 2019 | 13 | $70 | 156 | $30 |
| 2021 | 45 | $65 | 19 | $47 |
| 2022 | 27 | $65 | 5 | $48 |
| 2023 | 77 | $65 | 10 | $42 |
We leave a cell empty when fewer than five sellers or five sales stand behind it. The current 2024 has no auction sales yet; 121 shops offer it at a median of $61.
Per-vintage shop figures leave out stores whose listings do not state a reliable vintage. We leave out the 2020 because its shop seller count is not plausible, which points to a vintage labeling problem in the listings.
At auction
We have 420 sales with a recorded price, at 14 auction houses, from February 2020 to October 2026. Spectrum Wine Auctions accounts for 305 of them, followed by K&L Wines (61) and Winebid (32). Half of all sales fall between $30 and $50 a bottle.
Volumes are small after 2021, but the median has risen. It was $30 in 2021 and has been $53 to $67 since 2024.
All vintages, per 750 ml, buyer's premium included. 2026 runs to October.
| Year | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $36 | 65 sales |
| 2021 | $30 | 184 sales |
| 2022 | $33 | 53 sales |
| 2023 | $40 | 31 sales |
| 2024 | $67 | 15 sales |
| 2025 | $55 | 29 sales |
| 2026 | $53 | 43 sales |
| Year of sale | Sales | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 65 | $36 |
| 2021 | 184 | $30 |
| 2022 | 53 | $33 |
| 2023 | 31 | $40 |
| 2024 | 15 | $67 |
| 2025 | 29 | $55 |
| 2026 | 43 | $53 |
On restaurant lists
Austin Hope Cabernet is on 1,189 restaurant wine lists in our data, collected between January 2025 and November 2026. Nearly all of the lists with a country are in the US. The median list price is $95 a bottle, and half the lists price it between $70 and $120.
Austin Hope in the Hope Family Wines range
Hope Family Wines has six brands: Austin Hope, Treana, Quest, Liberty School, Troublemaker and Austin (Hope Family Wines). These are the wines with the most sellers in our data, all vintages together.
| Wine | Shop sellers | Shop median |
|---|---|---|
| Austin Hope Cabernet Sauvignon, Paso Robles | 3,095 | $66 |
| Liberty School Cabernet Sauvignon, Paso Robles | 2,379 | $18 |
| Austin Cabernet Sauvignon, Paso Robles | 1,735 | $24 |
| Troublemaker Red, Paso Robles | 1,330 | $18 |
| Treana Cabernet Sauvignon, Paso Robles | 792 | $33 |
| Austin Chardonnay, Paso Robles | 777 | $22 |
| Liberty School Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Paso Robles | 574 | $27 |
| Treana Red, Paso Robles | 398 | $40 |
Buying Austin Hope Cabernet
The winery sells the current release in its online shop, along with magnums and larger bottles. The Austin Hope Wine Club ships twice a year, in spring and fall, from the Austin Hope and Treana wines. Older vintages turn up at auction now and then.
See all Austin Hope wines on the Austin Hope Winery producer page. See live Austin Hope Cabernet prices and auction history in Wine Labs market data.
Data methodology: Wine Labs data, November 4, 2026, for "Austin Hope Cabernet Sauvignon, Paso Robles, USA". Shop prices are live 750 ml offers from online merchants and wine shops, one price per seller per vintage (the lowest), with each chain counted once, and with multi-bottle packs and the winery's own shop left out. Auction prices are sold lots with a recorded result, buyer's premium included, per 750 ml bottle, with mixed lots and flagged outliers left out. Restaurant prices are one bottle price per restaurant. All prices in US dollars. Sourcing and oak details are from Hope Family Wines' fact sheets, linked above.