Welcome to the NCRC Scholarship Benefit Wine Page! Thank you for your support of the 2022 Benefit. By purchasing and donating the below wines, you will help NCRC remain the wonderful community it is today! The NCRC Tuition Assistance Fund helps ensure our continued mission of maintaining a socioeconomically diverse and inclusive student body, and helps support 15% of our students.
How it works? Very simple. Purchase any of the below wines as a donation for the Auction! Nothing else needs to be done. We will pick it up and bring the wine to Nats Stadium, where it will be part of the auction.
Please select the curbside pickup option and put a note in the instructions field saying NCRC auction.
The 2018 Chardonnay Runway Vineyard comes from a site outside of Santa Maria and was aged 18 months entirely in new French oak. It's another gorgeous Chardonnay offering a Burgundian-style nose of spiced orchard fruits, toasted nuts, honeysuckle, and whit...
Rich, vibrant, creamy and expressive, this well-balanced, luscious Chardonnay is classically Californian
A perennial favorite. Always one of the finest and most elegant of the rose Champagnes.
For an 8-year-old champagne this is extremely vibrant, the red-fruit character from the pinot noir grape rather in the background. Quite a strict style with discreet lees creaminess. However the ripeness and power means that it isn't austere. Feels bone-d...
This red displays a mix of macerated plum, cherry, mint, earth, iron and sanguine flavors. In the savory camp, without the purity of many of its peers, at least today, yet harmonious and long, with dusty tannins on the finish.
Brane-Cantenac's 2016 Baron de Brane is a silky, gracious second wine from Brane-Cantenac that is ideal for drinking now and over the next handful of years. Expressive floral and savory notes add brightness to a core of sweet red berry and plum fruit. The...
2018 Beychevelle is an exceptional, utterly vivid wine...flamboyant and full-throttle, not to mention absolutely stunning.
Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2018 Clos Marsalette leaps from the glass with bold notes of stewed black plums, ripe blackberries and mulberries, plus hints of bay leaves, crushed rocks and damp soil. The full-bodied palate delivers mouth-coat...
The 2016 Pauillac de Chateau Latour is a compelling, sumptuous wine that shows just how magnificent the year is. How can this be a third wine? Dark and ample in the glass, Latour's Pauillac possesses tremendous breed right out of the gate. Black cherry, g...
The 2016 Sénéjac is wonderfully expressive...full of complexity and nuance.
The 2015 Bouchet is in a gorgeous spot right now where it is starting to show some of the complexity that develops in bottle. Petrol, ginger, baking spices, orange peel and hazelnut are nicely laced together, with bright saline notes that wrap it all toge...
Leading off the 2019 Chateauneuf du Pape, all of which were tasted from barrel, the 2019 Chateauneuf Du Pape Les Safres should equal or surpass the 2018 as it has the same level of elegance and finesse, yet even better mid-palate depth and concentration. ...
The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Hirondelle Vineyard is all Cabernet from a vineyard in the Stags Leap region. Its inky purple color is followed by a seriously good bouquet of blackcurrants, black raspberries, crushed rocks, spice, and cedarwood. It's rich, fu...
Sleek and pure, with red currant and raspberry notes laced with red licorice and red tea. Good fine-grained grip through the finish keeps this focused. There's sneaky length too, with fine, chalky minerality peeping in. Drink now through 2026
The 2019 Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Sur Le Sentier Du Clou opens in the glass with aromas of pear, crisp orchard fruit, blanched almonds and pastry. Medium to full-bodied, bright and lively, it's fine-boned and mineral. Pillot notes that this didn't fully finish...
A smooth, easygoing Brunello that offers early accessibility and appeal, if not mind-boggling complexity and size.
This was a great vintage for the popular Arneis white grape that knocks out simplicity while maintaining a great sense of inner freshness and complexity.