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Golf Legend Jack Nicklaus Introduces a Napa Cabernet

Plus, North Carolina’s Biltmore winery celebrates its 25th anniversary, and the wine and food community comes together for an adoption benefit

Posted: May 27, 2010

• The Golden State and the Golden Bear are teeing off with a new Napa Valley Cabernet. Professional golf legend Jack Nicklaus will lend his name to a new line of red wines to be produced by Terlato Wines International. The inaugural two wines, to be introduced at the upcoming PGA Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, come from the 2007 vintage. In addition to a Napa Cabernet, there will also be a Jack Nicklaus Wines Private Reserve, a blend of Bordeaux grapes and Syrah. Nicklaus joins the ranks of PGA stars Mark O’Meara, Ernie Els, Arnold Palmer and Greg Norman among golfers sporting their own wine labels.

• When George W. Vanderbilt lived at his famous 250-room home, Biltmore House, at the turn of the 20th century, the dairy barn was, well, a dairy barn. Today, however, it houses state-of-the-art winemaking facilities for Biltmore Winery, which celebrated its 25th anniversary this week. Started by Vanderbilt's grandson, William A. V. Cecil, the winery stemmed from experimental plantings of French-American hybrid grapes in 1971. It obviously went well, as the North Carolina-based winery now holds 94 acres of vineyards, produces 170,000 cases of wine annually and hosts more than 600,000 visitors each year. As part of the celebration, Biltmore put Vanderbilt's 1913 Stevens-Duryea Model C-Six car, believed to be one of only 10 still existing, on permanent display in the tasting room. Unfiltered recommends resisting the temptation to taste and drive.

• Unfiltered attended the Taste of Spring charity auction benefiting the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute at the Puck Building in New York earlier this month. The event brought together some top New York chefs, along with some excellent wines from around the world. Chefs from Jean-Georges, Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill, David Burke’s Fishtail and Bar Breton were all on hand to support the institute, which provides research, education and advocacy toward bettering the lives of everyone touched by adoption. Among those wineries pouring at the auction were Sequoia Grove, Louis Jadot, Taittinger and St. Francis. The Taste of Spring brought in a total of $300,000 for the Adoption Institute, including the sale of a case of 1978 Château Lafite Rothschild in its original wooden case for just $3,000, about 50 percent of its current Wine Spectator Auction Index Average.