Penultimate is one of Napa Valley’s more recent releases, and is considered a “second label” to the Harlan family’s Promontory label. Bid on Penultimate wine online on WineBid today!

Giuseppe Quintarelli was a trailblazer in the Veneto region of Italy, where until his death in 2012 he led one of Italy’s most respected wine estates. By the 1970s his Valpolicellas and other wines had attained cult status.

Martinelli has a terrifically romantic history. In 1887 a teen-aged couple from Tuscany eloped to the Russian River Valley. Giuseppe Martinelli, a young winemaker, then 19, and his 16-year-old wife set to work growing grapes and making wine.