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🇺🇸 From Pahlmeyer · Napa Valley · California · United States

Pahlmeyer, Merlot, Napa Valley

Red · AVA · first vintage on our lists 1994

Poured at 62 of the world's top restaurant lists in 12 countries, across 17 vintages from 1994 to 2022, with 130 realized lots at auction.

Where it's poured
62 rooms in 55 cities across 12 countries, from the lists we read. Dots sized by rooms pouring.
55 cities
The map · 48 US rooms in 43 cities
Los Angeles 3Las Vegas 2Park City 2San Diego 2Des Moines 1Elkhart 1Gainesville 1

Every dot is a city where we read a list pouring Pahlmeyer, Merlot, Napa Valley; dot size is the number of rooms.

The vintages
17 vintages on the world's lists, 1994 to 2022, plus a non-vintage bottling. Pick a dot: size is rooms pouring, colour is age — under 15 years · mature · 25 and older. The from price is the lowest bottle price we've read on a list.
Rooms · from price
2000201020202022 · 7 rooms2021 · 26 rooms2020 · 1 room2019 · 10 rooms2017 · 1 room2016 · 4 rooms2015 · 1 room2013 · 3 rooms2007 · 3 rooms2004 · 2 rooms2002 · 2 rooms2001 · 1 room2000 · 1 room1999 · 2 rooms1997 · 3 rooms1995 · 2 rooms1994 · 1 room2021 · 26 rooms
202126 rooms pour it · from $35 on a list · most poured in Las VegasThe 26 rooms
At auction
130 realized lots across the houses we read. Prices per 750ml, premium inclusive, converted at rates on the sale date.
The full record →
Oct 2016Dots are real salesJun 2026

The 2004, 29 sales. Dots are real sales.

$100
Median at auction, per 750ml
×2.4
$235
Median on a restaurant list
64.7%
Twelve months, at auction
From the house
The rest of the Pahlmeyer canon, and where the house stands.
Rooms pouring
Napa Valley · California · United States18 wines in the canonranked 33 of 635 California producers by rooms pouring
More wines from Pahlmeyer
One wine, crosswalked to the world's top restaurant lists and 130 auction lots · Most listed · How we count
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