james laube's wine flights

The Hype Before The Wine

Posted: Apr 3, 2009 2:18pm ET

All kinds of pitches and press releases cross my desk. Few, however, are accompanied by the level of hype and hyperbole that characterized the press kit for a new winegrowing estate called Captûre. It's located on Pine Mountain in Sonoma's Alexander Valley, near Cloverdale, at an elevation of 2,450 feet.

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