The average bottle price across all the auction lots was purportedly around $160 The top grossing auction lot on Saturday was 10 cases of wine from Chateau Boswell and Bevan Cellars sold at $75,000, or $625 per bottle.
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Some of these wines can actually be purchased by the public, though they require persistence to track down, plus a cavalier attitude towards the price of wine.
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So what’s the good in me tasting wines that most won’t be able to buy, let alone drink for some time? As I swoon over some of these wines, I often ask myself the same question. The wines that get auctioned off at Premiere are made solely for the auction, in quantities of 5, 10, or 20 cases, and often represent the highest quality wine that each producer can make.įor anyone (such as myself) with no aspirations of buying fairly expensive, very unique wines, the weekend’s primary point of interest lies in the tasting held before the auction, where these 200 (or in the case of this year, 212) barrel lots are made available for members of the trade and the media to sample. Judging by the auction’s proceeds of $3.04 million, which didn’t quite top last year’s record haul of $3.1 million, the demand for Napa’s wine remains strong, if at somewhat more subdued levels than before 2008 reset the whole fine wine marketplace in this country. Every year, this auction provides a gauge of the overall demand for Napa wine, and perhaps a broader barometer of the American fine wine market overall. This past Saturday, Napa Valley held what the Napa Valley Vintners association refers to as its “Annual Bake Sale.” The event officially named Premiere Napa Valley is held each February as a fundraiser for the Vintners’ operations, and is open only to members of the trade (retailers, corporate buyers, and the like).