RdV Vineyards, Delaplane

Beautiful structure, please any staff, and decent wine. The Lost Mountain is excellent, though the prices are quite high for the value. The tour was fun, interesting, and educational.

The tasting experience is really lovely, as is hearing RdV's backstory. I enjoyed their wines (they were offering a vertical of the Lost Mountain!), however....the wine itself is way, way, way overpriced. A few years ago, bottles of new releases were closer to ~$125, which is probably where they should still be priced. Since then RdV has been testing what price the market will bear...a single bottle of 2019 (newest release) will now run you $225. That's the close to the top of what you would pay for a prestige 2019 release Napa bottle. This is *bananas* but apparently there are still a lot of people willing to pay for the marketing and "exclusivity" I'm all for supply and demand and free markets, but $225 for one young bottle of wine is pretty obscene compared to other wines of higher quality with more age on them. "Price is set by the willingness of what people will pay" and it seems like a lot of people love the idea of RdV, but maybe don't have a great understanding of the other options out there. If you are interested in burning some money, they did not sell out of this year's 2019 release, so maybe they have finally hit the limit of what they can get people to pay.