How To Sell Vintage Wine

Depending on storage. the 66 BV is a clbuttic although I've preferred the 70--- the Sebastiani is vin ordinaire no matter how it was stored. Yes it is illegal to see wine privately, so is jaywalking and sodomy in some states. If all you have of the BV is one bottle--none of the auction houses that buy wines will deal with even if it was in pristine condition. Some wineshop might offer you $150 for it unless you were the only person owning this wine and you bought it in the very early 70's...most wine merchants at the time paid little attention to storage especially a domestic wine, so only if bought it the winery or one of leading stores at the time. If your uncle Velvel gave you the bottle, who knows. A good bottle of the 66 with a good shoulder fill-no lower then the neck is intrinsically worth $250-300, you are drinking history in 1966 you had only Inglenook, Krug, Sebastiani and Louis Martini selling cabs outside of California and NY's 21 club. Heitz, Mondavi may have made something but was one of the first vintages. Its possible some of the Sonoma-Mendocino producers made a vintage cab(Simi, Fetzere, Parducci, Wente, Concannon) but they concentrated their effort on other wines. Leon Adams Wine in America may have this information. Any was Andre Tschallochef(sp) was BV's winemaker and he made serious cab & pinot noir before things broke loose in 1970 or so. Inglenook was compebreastive until they like BV were bought by Hublein. Frankly, no one at Inglenook stood up to new owners before long grand old Inglenook became a jug wine house with impressive facilities for tourists but other than charbono and an occasional cask numbered Cab, wines from the 60's & 70's were unimpressive. I went to a tasting there their during one of the early Napa auctions. Sebastiani was a typical italian owned first & second generation winery making good, inexpensive wines until August or Sam? died or became too ill. The children went through several decades of internecine warfare with themselves, banks, & outside partners, some of the children like Sam II tried to make finer wines and some formed their own independent wineries. Sebastiani was always a nice stop near the town square in Sonoma. They never were world beaters but they always made decent reliable wines.........

Anyway, I'm rambling, must be the caffeine I shouldn't have had, unless you just don't like or have no friend invite some people over buy some recent BV & Sebastiani have some nice cheese and drink the suckers....you're not going to pay off your mortgage selling the wine..........IMHO of course