This classic Auction favorite gets better year after year – just like the best wines.  This year, we’ve got more than five cases of fabulous wines to fill your cellar and grace your table for years to come. 

Any “instant wine cellar" needs reds, whites and sparkling for "near term" consumption, and this year's lot includes an array of cabernet, merlot, chardonnay, pinot noir and sauvignon blanc from top producers in the Santa Rita Hills, Paso Robles, Santa Cruz, Napa, and Sonoma viticultural regions.  We can’t possibly tell you about all these fabulous bottles, but let us just give you an idea of some of the highlights.

Want to know why there's so much hype about “Sea Smoke” -- the pinot noir made famous in "Sideways?"  You'll get some to taste what the fuss is about.  Whose chardonnays are better, Kistler or Peter Michael?  Buy this lot and compare them with friends.  But that's just the “low end” of the scale.  Wine connoisseurs still debate whether 1982 was the Bordeaux "vintage of the century."  You'll have a few different ones to sample.  Try them against the bottles from other top-notch 1980s vintages and come to your own conclusions.

 But maybe you prefer Burgundy to Bordeaux?  The half-dozen burgundies in this set include the 1995 and 1999 Corton des Corton grand cru from Faiveley.

And we’ve got more interesting drinking.  Randy Dunn is one of the original “cult” wine makers; since the late 1970s, making a deep, delicious 100% cabernet from vines his family planted around their home on Howell Mountain.  You will have vintages from the 1980s and 1990s -- all bought on release, lovingly stored, and occasionally sampled!  A great vertical to compare with friends.

Speaking of cult, there are a couple of real “sleepers” in this collection.  You’ll get at least of few bottles of the Harland and Colgin portfolios.  Other sleepers include MX and Angus & Carlyle from Margaux Singleton.  A Napa Valley fixture, and Calistoga wine shop owner, Margaux relies on great friends to make small lots of wine from the very best vineyard plots. These two beauties -- of 7-barrel and 2-barrel production, respectively -- are fruit that Ms. Singleton’s good friend Andy Beckstoffer sold her from “sweet spots" in the famed To Kalon vineyard.

We could go on and on, but we hope you get the point.  Don’t miss this chance to add these five cases of amazing wines to your cellar!