$25,000 a case? Hmmm....a little pricey for me.
A few weeks ago, your Two Masters team attended the 'Premier Napa Valley' event. Now in its 15th year, the Premier has grown to include a large variety of outside events with tastings and celebrations. Many of the smaller, sub-regions of the Napa Valley region host tastings to show off the wineries and wine makers from their area. Sometimes a city, sometimes simply a geographic area, these wine-growing sub-regions are called appellations. For example, Calistoga is a recently approved appellation. Rutherford and Oakville have been named appellations for years.
Before we attended the Premier, we had the opportunity to scour a number of the appellation tastings. And we found some great wines you'll be seeing in the upcoming months.
The Spring Mountain District is a well known appellation. We did a tasting in the wine caves below a major estate up on the mountain. If you ever have the chance to tour some of the amazing caves in the area, do so. It's quite spectacular.
The Premier is a charity event, designed to showcase Napa Valley, its winemakers and the industry as a whole. This year five cases of the yet-to-be-released 2009 Scarecrow cabernet sauvignon sold, at auction, for $125,000. Per bottle: $2,083.
Let's figure about 4.5 glasses per bottle. So, a glass of this beauty is a cool 463 bucks.
Definitely out of my price range. And, I'm sorry to say, don't expect to see a Scarecrow cab in your monthly delivery any time soon.
Terry Liebman
