Food & Wine

Local deals seem to be around $100 a case delivered for wines selling normally from $20-40 a bottle. A local vineyard is offering wines normally from $300-420 a case at the tasting room for $99 a case delivered to your home I think this coronavirus thing ...  

Or are you just keeping a few bottles at your bedside - just in case...? Either way is a great idea

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I think I will take some inspiration from your post and start stocking up.

It's just enormously bigger version of a card catalog. I have several (they seemed like a good idea at the time) The other one has fewer and larger drawers. ...  

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Since I've had some sinus issues I can't fully appreciate the bouquet of a big red. So those are aging while I work through this. I'm not much of a hard alcohol / mixed drink guy, to be honest, but I have a few single malts that are used for medicinal pur... 

Wine merchants are only taking delivery orders with long lead times. I did an inventory yesterday, plenty of red but stocks of white have taken a hammering in recent weeks ;-)) ...  

For quite some time!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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“My wine storage warehouse closed but then a friend of mine who is wine director at a restaurant was selling their inventory at cost. It was crazy...Krug for $100/bottle, etc. and then on the way out the door they just full on gave me a bottle of Sine qua... 

I know of one restaurant in San Francisco was selling their wine at cost. But they announced it and within a few hours the city was going to shut down at midnight. I decided against rushing into the city and trying to pick some bottles up.

...my family has owned property in the Napa Valley for the last 60 years. We operate it as a vineyard (we grow grapes) with no winery on the property. For various reasons, in the past two seasons there has been a HUGE (some say unprecedented) glut of grap... 

Breweries don’t survive this. I’m thinking of one that dropped tens of millions on building drinking facilities.

I find that prices have risen way too much. Opus One used to be sub $200 a bottle. Now, it's around double that. A typical California Napa Cab that has seen 70% new French Oak barrels used to cost $30 a bottle several years ago, now they're $60-75. This r... 

...got a bit too complacent and thought they could keep raising prices. It was getting pretty ridiculous for a while there. Of course, they could justify it...didn't they have to pay for their new steel, glass, and redwood tasting room designed by an awar... 

My aunt and uncle had a home in Napa for about 50 years. My sister's brother-in-law did this collage of notable Napa figures over the last half of the 20th century Cazalea ...  

...but it looks like a fun picture to have in a tasting room. My uncle lived on the property for many years and was a very outgoing guy. I'm sure he knew just about everyone in that picture. It's still a small valley business-wise (i.e. your reputation is... 

When this Coronavirus is all over, we've gotta have a Napa trip!

When friends come to town, even those that have been to Napa Valley many times, I will give them the 'locals' tour. By that I mean the out-of-the-way places we would go as kids, or where my father and grandfather would take us. They are decidedly not fanc... 

I've been trying to do more things as the locals do them. I'm in the SF Bay Area, so only about an hour's drive away. I really enjoy the sandwiches at the Genova Delicatessen on Trancas ST in Napa. We will have to find a date to rendezvous sometime when t... 

...we (and my friend) met you in Los Altos for a very small GTG a couple of years ago. I am in the East Bay...

especially Californian cabernets. I recalled buying my first Opus One-1983-,for what seemed a fairly pricy $50 then,at Ghirendelli Square I have not purchased any since the prices escalated .Still enjoying the lesser wines like Chateau Montelena, Stag's L... 

Cask 23 at Stags Leap is way too much money these days. Do I enjoy my $100 dinner at a nice restaurant, say Gary Danko near Ghiradellhi Square, more than a $200 bottle of wine? I sure do! I’d say I’m getting much more satisfaction per dollar on the food! ... 

I haven't bought any Cask 23 at today's prices,but i reckon the Montelena is still fairly just about reasonable by comparison to a lot of cali cabernets,especially the boutique varieties. I don't see a reversion of prices to that of the eighties-early nin... 

...while I actually think the food prices are more than reasonable given the deliciousness, the wine markups are almost criminal. Last time there in February for my son's 30th I picked out a Hobbs red that was a good value. Otherwise, as much as I love th... 

The markups are indeed criminal. I simply don’t see the value. Also, the sommelier never brings out the cart to perform the table side bottle service. I’m not sure they have a sommelier wine cart. I’ve noticed the flambé dessert cart and the cheese cart, ... 

Thank you for giving us this perspective.

...and will continue for a while. That's some storage room you have there,with recuperation apparatus,lol! Unfortunately,my wine merchants have yet to send me offers that indicate substantial drop in prices---still waiting! Prices have escalated so much i... 

This is a major concession from the Alcohol control people to keep businesses afloat. Drink up!