I just read that Caymus bottled 830,000 cases of wine at their Rutherford facility last year. This doesn’t count the wine bottled at their Santa Lucia Highlands facility. WHO is drinking all this wine???
I have always wondered about quantities of wine ordered when steak houses (or other restaurants) order wines. Just how many bottles of each vintage do you think that each place orders?
Just read they are building a 5 million gallon winery in Solano County with 100+ acre vineyards as well. They have done a good job of branding themselves and spinning off new labels. They also just paid a huge fine for over bottling in their Napa Valley facility, but I believe it was still cheaper than opening up an additional bottling line.
The Caymus cabs are still under 100,000 cases supposedly, it’s the Connundrum, Mer Soleil, Belle Glos, etc. labels that are killing it. Caymus cabs at <$15 were the wines I broke my cherry on, loved those wines.
I remember reading the special selection is usually a 30,000 case wine in an average year. Kind of doubt both Cabs + the Zin make more than 100k cases annually, if that so the Conundrum, Mer Soleil and Belle Glos must make up the bulk.
Yes, and its in Mexico. There is a dearth of CA wine in Mexico, for reasons we can discuss separately but my point is that in one wine shop in central Mexico, there was Meomi, Mer Soleil and Caymus, across about 10 slots of CA wine (BV, Kendall Jackson, etc). This is another reason why there is 830K cases.