WineInk: A look ahead
Hello! Are you out there? Is anyone in Aspen this week? I do kind of feel like I’m drinking alone here. There are six weeks and counting until the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen,...
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Hello! Are you out there? Is anyone in Aspen this week? I do kind of feel like I’m drinking alone here. There are six weeks and counting until the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen,...
Schug Carneros Estate Winery Launches Library Wine Experience In honor of its 40th anniversary and in conjunction with the Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Alliance, the pioneering winery is digging into its cellar SONOMA, CA (April 7, 2021) – Visitors to Schug Carneros Estate Winery can now get a taste of the property’s rich history. The winery, which was founded 40 years ago by renowned winemaker Walter Schug, has started offering a Library Wine Experience that enables guests to sample older vintages paired with food. Co-owner and second-generation vintner Claudia Schug hosts...
Jan 30, 2021, 12:54 PM IST US auctioneer Hart Davis Hart has completed its 2020 season with a two-day "record shattering" sale featuring the wines from the late Joseph Phelps' cellar. For a total of US $10.4 million, the entire collection was 100 percent sold, almost $2m above the high pre-sale estimate, with 82 percent of the lots offered selling above their high estimates as well. Last Friday's first session included the wine cellar of the late Joseph Phelps. In total, it made $2.2 million (above a high estimate of $1.3 million) with buyers jumping at the opportunity to purchase Lafite Roth...
Decanter Rare Lafite and Napa wines sold from Joseph Phelps private cellar A bottle of Lafite from 1865 and a series of rare gems from 1970s California have fetched high prices in an auction of wines owned by the late Napa Valley pioneer Joseph Phelps. It said 501 lots from the ‘personal estate of Joseph Phelps’ fetched $2.2m (£1.64m) in total, versus a pre-sale high estimate of $1.374m. An auction list showed how Phelps, who died in 2015, had collected great wines from around the world for his private cellar, alongside his pioneering role in elevating the winemaking a...