Press Release

For Immediate Release: March 30, 2009
Contact: Brooke Hilton, WineBid.com, bhilton@winebid.com, or (888) 638-8968 x213

WineBid.com® Buys Antinori's First Premiere Napa Valley Auction Lot

Napa, California: – Every year WineBid.com, the premier Internet auction of fine and rare wines, participates in the Premiere Napa Valley Wine Auction. More that 200 Napa Valley Vintners create wines solely for this event.

In the 2009 Auction WineBid.com was very pleased to win lot #181 donated by Antica Napa Valley, which is the Antinori family’s Napa estate. The highly-limited production wine is the estate’s 2007 Townsend Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, and it will be released in mid-2010. It is the first time the Antinori’s Napa Valley estate has offered a lot for Premiere Napa Valley.

Though Antica Napa Valley’s first vintage, a 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon, was released only in 2007, the estate is part of a noble wine-making history that goes back 26 generations. Marchesi Piero Antinori, the current president of the family’s international wine-producing enterprise, first visited the Napa Valley as a young man in 1966. Nearly 30 years later he acquired an estate on a high plain in the rugged, hilly terrain of Napa Valley’s eastern rim, partly because the hilly terrain with its rocky soils reminded him of Tuscany. The Antinori family chose the Townsend Vineyard for its Premier Napa Valley lot because the vineyard’s grapes produce wines of exceptional power and finesse.

"The Antica wine was one of our top picks as we tasted through the lots at the Premier Napa Valley tasting. We are looking forward to being able to offer this wine to our customers in 2010," said Jerome Zech, WineBid.com’s Chief Executive Officer.

Established in 1996, WineBid.com is the largest online auction for fine and rare wines with more than 54,000 registered bidders. At WineBid.com each bottle of wine is appraised, inspected and stored in our climate controlled warehouse in Napa, California.

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