Broadway Money Moves Napa Westward

Mar 25, 2018

(Wine-Searcher) - The man behind a musical smash is changing the rules in wine country.

It's a common belief that Napa Valley is a limited area; put that belief up against the can-do spirit of "Jersey Boys," however, and suddenly Napa Valley can expand.

Hence Kinsella Estates, a slice of Napa Valley across the county line in Sonoma County's Dry Creek Valley. Except for that pesky location where the grapes grow, Kinsella ticks all the modern Napa Valley boxes:
* wealthy owner who made his money in other industries, mostly tech investing but also as a financier of the aforementioned Broadway hit "Jersey Boys"

* cult Cabernet winemaker, Thomas Rivers Brown

* vineyard management by a Calistoga-based company, Clark Vineyard Management;

* the wine is even made in Calistoga

* three different Cabernets, priced from $95 to $125, from a winery that makes only about 2000 cases total

* unique and attractive bottle that costs more to produce than the majority of actual wines drunk in the United States


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