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Bid on this 3-bottle lot of 1970 Inglenook Napa Charbono. In 1879, Finnish explorer and adventurer Gustave Niebaum searched the Napa Valley with the goal of establishing a wine estate to rival the finest chateau of France. For decades his wines won acclaim and remain some of the most admired in American wine history's classic period. By the mid-1960s, his property was divided, and estate-wine production ceased.A decade later, Francis Ford Coppola purchased 1, 500 acres of this historic property and revived Captain Niebaum's fine winemaking tradition. In 1995, Niebaum-Coppola acquired the remainder of the property and restored the Inglenook Estate to its original dimensions.

Bid on this 3-bottle lot of 1969 Inglenook Charbono. "The property once known as Inglenook isn't simply important in Napa Valley history—it's as close as Napa gets to hallowed ground, a spot that encompasses nearly the valley's entire wine history, " wrote Jon Bonné in the San Francisco Chronicle in January 2013. This bottling is from that most legendary of estates, and it offers a rare opportunity to drink California winemaking history. Charbono, also known as Bonarda, is a grape originally from Savoie, France near the border with Italy. Following the influence of Inglenook, it is now grown widely in the Napa Valley.