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Napa Valley

Napa Valley AVA is the most famous winemaking region in the United States and one of the most prestigious in the world. With nearly 43,000 acres of vineyards and more than 300 wineries, it is the heart of fine wine production in the United States. Winemaking started in Napa in 1838 when George C. Yount planted grapes and began producing wine commercially. Other winemaking pioneers followed in the late 19th century, including the founders of Charles Krug, Schramsberg, Inglenook and Beaulieu Vineyards. An infestation of phylloxera, an insect that attacks vine roots, and the onset of Prohibition nearly wiped out the nascent Napa wine industry in the early 20th century. But by the late 1950s and early 1960s Robert Mondavi and other visionaries were producing quality wines easily distinguishable from the mass-produced jug wines made in California’s Central Valley. Napa Valley’s AVA was established in 1983, and today there are 16 sub-appellations within the Napa Valley AVA. Many grapes grow well in Napa’s Mediterranean climate, but the region is best known for Cabernet Sauvignon. Chardonnay is also very successfully cultivated, and about 30% of the AVA’s acreage is planted to white grapes, with the majority of those grapes being Chardonnay,

2012 Aubert Larry Hyde & Sons Vineyard Chardonnay

1.5ltr

RP  96-98   
WS  92   

1980 Beringer Lemmon-Chabot Vineyard Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

9.0ltr

Light signs of past seepage; label condition issue; 11cm ullage; exposed cork; missing capsule

WS  90   

1980 Beringer Lemmon-Chabot Vineyard Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 9.0ltr

Capsule condition issue; light label condition issue; signed by the winemaker; fill level is 5.5cm below the wax capsule; Light case condition issue

WS  90   

1982 Beringer Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

3.0ltr

WS  94   
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1982 Beringer Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

3.0ltr

Capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage

WS  94   

2010 Promontory Red

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 1.5ltr

RP  98+    
ST  96+    
VN  94+    

2012 Promontory Red

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 1.5ltr

RP  97   
WS  93   

2013 Promontory Red

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 1.5ltr

RP  99   
WS  93   

2018 Promontory Red

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 1.5ltr

WA  97-100   

2001 Far Niente Estate Bottled Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

WS  93   
RP  92   
WE  91   

2011 Far Niente Estate Bottled Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

1997 Dunn Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Capsule condition issue

RP  95   
ST  90+    

1982 Dunn Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 5.0ltr

Etched bottle; Light case condition issue

RP  95   
WS  94   

1985 Dunn Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 5.0ltr

Etched bottle; Light case condition issue

WS  91   
RP  90   

2017 Paul Hobbs Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

WA  95+    
WS  94   
JS  94-95   
VN  93+    

2007 Paul Hobbs Stagecoach Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

WS  93   
VN  93   
RP  88-90   

1998 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cask 23

1.5ltr

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

2000 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cask 23

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

WS  91   

1997 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Fay Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

WS  92   

1997 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars SLV Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

2000 Spottswoode Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

RP  93   
ST  90   
JR  17.5   

2006 Abreu Madrona Ranch

1.5ltr

RP  96+    

2013 Chappellet Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon

3.0ltr

Light label condition issue; etched bottle

RP  96   
VN  94   
WS  91   

2018 Diamond Creek

3-bottle Horizontal, Wood Case, 1.5ltr

1985 Diamond Creek Gravelly Meadow

12.0ltr

Capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage