Napa's Top 50 Cabernets: California Cabernet at Auction

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Napa's top wines offer opportunities for buyers and sellers

Peter D. Meltzer
Issue: November 15, 2006

California Cabernets have been a staple of the U.S. auction market ever since its inception. According to the Wine Spectator auction database, in the first half of 2006 alone 16,392 bottles of California Cabernet Sauvignon were sold at auction-about 12 percent of all wines that went on the block nationwide.