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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,

1982 Raymond Cabernet Sauvignon

5.0ltr

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue; signed by the winemaker

WS  91   

2010 Bacio Divino Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

5.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; etched bottle

RP  91   
WS  91   

2008 Premiere Napa Valley Auction Reynolds Family Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon

3.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

2007 The Prisoner Wine Company The Prisoner

3.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill; signed bottle

WS  92   
WS  #47 of 2009   

1999 Pillar Rock Cabernet Sauvignon

3.0ltr

WS  91   

2002 Hewitt Vineyard Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 3.0ltr

Etched bottle

1998 Hartwell Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon

3.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue; etched bottle

WE  90   

2012 Meritage Gold Cabernet Sauvignon

3.0ltr

Etched bottle

2009 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

WE  92   
WS  91   

1992 Joseph Phelps Backus Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

RP  92   

2013 Silver Oak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

2017 Silver Oak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

JS  96   

2001 Far Niente Estate Bottled Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

WS  93   
RP  92   
WE  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 Pride Mountain Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

RP  98   
WS  89-91   

2006 Pride Mountain Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

RP  98   
WS  89-91   

2002 Lokoya Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

RP  96+    
WS  92-94   
ST  91+    

2008 Continuum Proprietary Red

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

WA  96   
WS  96   
ST  95   
WE  91   
WS  #80 of 2011   
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2008 Continuum Proprietary Red

1.5ltr

Lightly elevated cork; label condition issue

WA  96   
WS  96   
ST  95   
WE  91   
WS  #80 of 2011   

2010 Continuum Proprietary Red

1.5ltr

Lightly elevated cork

RP  97   
WS  93   
ST  92-94   

1980 Inglenook Rubicon

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue; signed bottle

WS  92   

2014 Inglenook Rubicon

1.5ltr

RP  95+    
VN  95+    

2014 Alpha Omega Beckstoffer Dr Crane Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

JD  98   
RP  96+    
JS  95   
VN  91   
WS  90