Are you ready for Web 3.0 and NFT’s?
My first guest is Natalie Bettinelli Senior Community Manager at Libation Labs. We’ll be telling you all about Cuvée Collective.
Cuvée Collective is extending the legacy and luxury of wine collecting, sitting at the heart of wine and web3.0 and representing the future of digital and physical wine experiences.
On July 27, Napa Valley startup Cuvée Collective launched the world’s first wine NFT club. Over 25 wineries will offer collections valued at $100 to $1,000 per NFT, which allow holders access to exclusive experiences like winemaker dinners, private events, virtual tastings, and rare wine allocations.
Natalie will answer all the questions about NFT’s and more. NFT stands for a non-fungible token, which means it can neither be replaced nor interchanged because it has unique properties. With Cuvée Collective it represents an unique way to acquire experiences and wines not available to everyone. Visit www.cuveecollective.com to learn more!
Later in the program Scott Johnson joins us from Napa and Robert Craig Winery (one of the wineries represented in the Cuvée Collective.
Founder Robert (Bob) Craig began his long and storied career in wine at The Hess Collection on Mount Veeder in the 1980s. Prior to starting his eponymous winery, Bob’s passion for Napa Valley Mountain Cabernet had him spearheading the official recognition of both the Mount Veeder and Spring Mountain District AVAs.
In 1990, with the help of three friends he met at business school in Chicago 25 years earlier, Bob founded Robert Craig Winery and arranged to purchase fruit and custom crush his first commercial release of the 1992 vintage. The 1993 vintage release introduced three Cabernets that remain the core of our business today: Howell Mountain, Mount Veeder and Affinity. Now, four decades later, Bob Craig remains one of the most important figures in Mountain Cabernet development and production in the history of the Napa Valley.
You’ll learn all about this fantastic Napa winery, the story from the beginning, the vineyards and products produced and more!
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2020 Robert Craig Howell Mountain Cuvée
“Predominately Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot, and Malbec, our 2020 edition was produced from our very best estate fruit that was declassified due to the fires and the reputation of the vintage rather than the quality of the fruit that came in early. This wine is profoundly dark and deep and presents the thrilling, racy nature of Howell Mountain minerality and sense of place. I cannot tell you what a great buy this all-estate Howell Mountain Bordeaux blend represents. Open it now and give it some air, or stash in the cellar ten years. 2020 is a tiny but wonderful vintage in certain pockets of the Napa Valley.”
Winemaker
COMPOSITION: 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 2% Malbec