Depending on storage. the 66 BV is a classic although I've preferred the
70--- the Sebastiani is vin ordinaire no matter how it was stored.
Yes it is illegal to see wine privately, so is jaywalking and sodomy in some
states. If all you have of the BV is one bottle--none of the auction houses
that buy wines will deal with even if it was in pristine condition. Some
wineshop might offer you $150 for it unless you were the only person owning
this wine and you bought it in the very early 70's...most wine merchants at
the time paid little attention to storage especially a domestic wine, so
only if bought it the winery or one of leading stores at the time. If your
uncle Velvel gave you the bottle, who knows. A good bottle of the 66 with a
good shoulder fill-no lower then the neck is intrinsically worth $250-300,
you are drinking history in 1966 you had only Inglenook, Krug, Sebastiani
and Louis Martini selling cabs outside of California and NY's 21 club.
Heitz, Mondavi may have made something but was one of the first vintages.
Its possible some of the Sonoma-Mendocino producers made a vintage cab(Simi,
Fetzere, Parducci, Wente, Concannon) but they concentrated their effort on
other wines. Leon Adams Wine in America may have this information. Any was
Andre Tschallochef(sp) was BV's winemaker and he made serious cab & pinot
noir before things broke loose in 1970 or so. Inglenook was competitive
until they like BV were bought by Hublein. Frankly, no one at Inglenook
stood up to new owners before long grand old Inglenook became a jug wine
house with impressive facilities for tourists but other than charbono and an
occasional cask numbered Cab, wines from the 60's & 70's were unimpressive.
I went to a tasting there their during one of the early Napa auctions.
Sebastiani was a typical italian owned first & second generation winery
making good, inexpensive wines until August or Sam? died or became too ill.
The children went through several decades of internecine warfare with
themselves, banks, & outside partners, some of the children like Sam II
tried to make finer wines and some formed their own independent wineries.
Sebastiani was always a nice stop near the town square in Sonoma. They
never were world beaters but they always made decent reliable wines.........

Anyway, I'm rambling, must be the caffeine I shouldn't have had, unless you
just don't like or have no friend invite some people over buy some recent BV
& Sebastiani have some nice cheese and drink the suckers....you're not going
to pay off your mortgage selling the wine..........IMHO of course

"Richard W. Solomon, W1KSZ" > wrote in message
...
> I have a 1966 Beaulieu Vineyard Georges Latour Private Reserve
> Cabernet and a 1982 Sebastiani Cabernet that I want to sell.
> I cannot sell them on e-Bay (restrictions on Wine sales) so
> any ideas how I can sell them ?
> A chap I work with said it's illegal to do this ?? I hate to pour them
> down the drain.
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard S.