If you're feeling like becoming a philanthropist by buying wine, you can peruse the Auction Napa Valley online offerings, and find some fabulous Napa wineries' exciting offerings.
You can bid on these items online - or just fantasize about them. And then think about how much less wear and tear it is on you, not having to go to Meadowood for the auction, avoiding sweating it out in traffic, or the stress of finding shoes to go with your glamorous gown.
Now you can just enjoy the auction online with these offerings:
• Ehlers Estate
Lunch and tour for 4, plus a bottle of wine
• Frog's Leap
Large format Cabernet Sauvignon
• Gamble Family Vineyards
Overnight accommodations for three nights for 8 people plus wine
• Grgich Hills
Two night overnight stay for up to 6 people, tour, and wine
• HALL Wines - Dinner with Kathryn
Dinner for 12 with Kathryn Hall in the HALL Wine caves
• HALL Wines - Cabernet Vertical
Imperial bottles of cabernet sauvignon from a four year period
• Heitz Wine Cellars
A 12 year vertical of their Trailside Cabernet Sauvignon (some are CCOF certified years)
• Inglenook
A magnum of 2005 Rubicon
• Madonna Estates
36 bottles of wine
• Neal Family Vineyards
Dinner for 12 and 12 magnums of wine
• Rocca Family Estates
Overnight stay for 2 nights, plus 6 bottles of wine
• Tres Sabores
Overnight stay for 2, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, and 24 bottles of wine, including 2 magnums
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Sunday, January 27, 2013
California Cabs - Wine Spectator's Top Organic Picks
Since I traveled in Italy, Sicily and Greece for most of the fall, I'm still catching up on my wine mags. It's a pleasure to flip through the pages all at once, and I almost feel like I'm tasting some great wines.
Wine Spectator's Nov. 15 issue features the 2009 vintage of California Cabernets. Many great Napa vineyards are featured and it's worth mentioning the organically grown ones on James Laube's recommendations.
Spottswoode's St. Helena Family Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon (96 pts, $145) makes the list for the best Cabs, in a very tight field where scores ranged from 96 to 97 among 13 wines. In fact, it almost seems like the "value" wine in the top 13 when you look at the prices for Schrader Cellars' Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard MM IX at $400 and Harlan Estate (96 pts) and Screaming Eagle (97 pts, both priced at $750 a bottle. Outta control, people.
Of the Spottswoode, Laube writes, "Beautifully crafted, showing a subtle mix of dried herbs, baking spices, and floral scents, with a light core of currant and blackberry flavors."
In the Top Values category, you'll find Chappellet, of Pritchard Hill, on the list with its Mountain Cuvee Napa Valley (89 pts) at $32 a bottle. They make more about 15,000 cases of this annually. This wine, alas, is not sourced wholely from their own organically certified vineyards, but it's worth noting here that their more expensive Cabernets will be, starting with the 2012 vintage. Note that it takes three years of organic viticulture to become organically certified, so any of the estate grown vintages since 2010 would also be organically grown.
There's also a short feature on the Pritchard Hill area in the mag, featuring several photos of Chappellet which is nice to see. I look forward to finally getting up there and doing some tasting when the weather gets a little nicer.
Other Cabernets that are grown organically that are listed in the A-Z section of the 2009 Cabs feature include:
94 points
• Dana Howell Mountain Hershey Vineyard ($325)
93 points
• Dana Napa Valley Lotus Vineyard ($325)
92 points
• Araujo Eisele Vineyard ($305)
• Dana Rutherford Helms Vineyard ($325)
• Staglin Family Cabernet Rutherford ($185)
91 points
• Ehlers Estate St. Helena 1886 ($95)
90 points
• Chappellet (in transition) Pritchard Hill ($135)
88 points
• Longmeadow Ranch (($45 - Napa Valley - but is this estate grown?)
86 points
• Grgich Hills ($60)
ª Inglenook, Rutherford Cask ($75)
85 points
• Volker Eisele ($45) (2008)
Having listed them in point order, I should say I don't believe in the point system, but am just aggregating information on WS's rankings.
Wine Spectator's Nov. 15 issue features the 2009 vintage of California Cabernets. Many great Napa vineyards are featured and it's worth mentioning the organically grown ones on James Laube's recommendations.
Spottswoode's St. Helena Family Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon (96 pts, $145) makes the list for the best Cabs, in a very tight field where scores ranged from 96 to 97 among 13 wines. In fact, it almost seems like the "value" wine in the top 13 when you look at the prices for Schrader Cellars' Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard MM IX at $400 and Harlan Estate (96 pts) and Screaming Eagle (97 pts, both priced at $750 a bottle. Outta control, people.Of the Spottswoode, Laube writes, "Beautifully crafted, showing a subtle mix of dried herbs, baking spices, and floral scents, with a light core of currant and blackberry flavors."
In the Top Values category, you'll find Chappellet, of Pritchard Hill, on the list with its Mountain Cuvee Napa Valley (89 pts) at $32 a bottle. They make more about 15,000 cases of this annually. This wine, alas, is not sourced wholely from their own organically certified vineyards, but it's worth noting here that their more expensive Cabernets will be, starting with the 2012 vintage. Note that it takes three years of organic viticulture to become organically certified, so any of the estate grown vintages since 2010 would also be organically grown.
There's also a short feature on the Pritchard Hill area in the mag, featuring several photos of Chappellet which is nice to see. I look forward to finally getting up there and doing some tasting when the weather gets a little nicer.
Other Cabernets that are grown organically that are listed in the A-Z section of the 2009 Cabs feature include:
94 points
• Dana Howell Mountain Hershey Vineyard ($325)
93 points
• Dana Napa Valley Lotus Vineyard ($325)
92 points
• Araujo Eisele Vineyard ($305)
• Dana Rutherford Helms Vineyard ($325)
• Staglin Family Cabernet Rutherford ($185)
91 points
• Ehlers Estate St. Helena 1886 ($95)
90 points
• Chappellet (in transition) Pritchard Hill ($135)
88 points
• Longmeadow Ranch (($45 - Napa Valley - but is this estate grown?)
86 points
• Grgich Hills ($60)
ª Inglenook, Rutherford Cask ($75)
85 points
• Volker Eisele ($45) (2008)
Having listed them in point order, I should say I don't believe in the point system, but am just aggregating information on WS's rankings.
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