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Dan Berger On Wine: The Amorphous Blend

It’s why I wasn’t interested in it that’s the rest of the story. Support local news coverage and the people who report it by subscribing to the Napa Valley Register. Special offer: $1 for your first six months! Unidentified red wine blends are amorphous and most differ radically from one another. They’re usually a mélange of unrelated grape varieties assembled in a hodgepodge-y manner. I usually have no interest in such wines because I can’t figure why they exist. Many years ago, I tried to find out. I called nearly a dozen winemakers and asked. I got answers that were woefully inadequate or simply naïve. In one case, I asked a winemaker why he used Mourvedre in his blend. He said, “Because we had some, and we don’t make Mourvedre, so I put it in the blend.” Oh.

Rare Napa gems and Lafite sold in Joseph Phelps cellar auction

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 and reputation of Napa Valley.

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