Donor: @Saul_Mutchnick at Championship Bottle
Value: $225 per bottle
MinBidIncr: $10
Auction Closes: 8pm PT
SPECIAL RULES: PAY ATTENTION
Two highest bidders each win one magnum of Silicone on Sapphire Extended Elevage, so there is a first and second place. Bonus: both winners will only pay the second place bid!!! What a deal, you win high bid and only pay what the second place bid is paying. For those that did not read that last paragraph here’s an example.
Example:
- Sue is high bid @ $250
- Dave is second highest bid @ $225
- Sue and Dave both win and they only pay $225
Got it? Easy!
2019 Championship Bottle Silicone on Sapphire Extended Elevage
This is probably the rarest wine we’ll ever make: an extended-tank-aged version of our Friuli-inspired white wine, bottled only in magnums, each with a handmade and numbered label. Just six cases exist. Today, we’re making two of them available.
For the first two years of Championship Bottle’s existence, we were lucky enough to make a wine called Silicone on Sapphire—a blend of Ribolla Gialla and Tocai Friulano from Omero Vineyard, plus Dion Vineyard Chardonnay, and Twelve Oaks Pinot Blanc. But Omero sold and the Ribolla and Friulano were ripped out.
When we went to bottle the 2019, the final vintage, I decided to fill up a keg with the wine and some of the fine lees and see what would happen with extended aging in what was essentially a mini-tank. After two years of additional elevage—a total of 42 months on the lees—I thought it was ready, and we bottled it in spring 2023. It’s fundamentally the same wine as the 2019 Silicone on Sapphire, but with more texture, minerality, and a delightful savory edge. It should age effortlessly for a while.
People are excited about this one!!! More cow bell!!!
