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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,

1976 Louis M. Martini Private Reserve Merlot

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1977 Clos du Val Zinfandel

Capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; low shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1979 Beaulieu Vineyard Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1982 Burgess Vintage Selection Cabernet Sauvignon

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

1982 Burgess Vintage Selection Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

1983 William Hill Gold Label Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

1983 Quail Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage

1986 Beaulieu Vineyard Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

3 available
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1986 Beaulieu Vineyard Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill; light label condition issue

1986 Groth Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  90   

1987 Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

WS  91   

1989 Beringer Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  91   
RP  90   

1990 Raymond Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

1992 Beringer Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  95   
RP  92   

1992 Beringer Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  95   
RP  92   

1992 Beringer Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill

WS  95   
RP  92   

1992 Beringer Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill

WS  95   
RP  92   

1992 Flora Springs Rutherford Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  90   

1993 Caymus Zinfandel

Lightly depressed cork

1994 Pride Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon

RP  90   
3 available
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1994 Pride Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

RP  90   

1994 Behrens & Hitchcock Staglin Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
RP  90   

1994 Hartwell Sunshine Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Very top shoulder fill

1995 Pride Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon

ST  92+    
WS  90   

1995 Turley Hayne Vineyard Zinfandel

Light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  94   
2 available
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