Press
We're grateful to have received some exciting reviews and press covering our wines and the Band of Vintners story. Below is a selection of recent press:
This Napa Valley Cabernet cost only $35. Now, it’s back after a yearslong hiatus.
By Jess Lander
“Thus far, band manager Echavarrie, a former French Laundry sommelier, has recruited two up-and-coming Napa Valley wine consultants, Britt Richards and Evyn Cameron, for the relaunch. It came at an optimal time: The wine industry is in a major downturn, yet Napa Valley's tasting fees and wine prices have reached an all-time high. The current release of the Band of Vintners Cabernet is priced at $35, whereas the average cost of a bottle of Napa Valley wine — not just Cabernet — is $108.”
9 Next-Generation California Winemakers to Watch Britt Richards - Alta Nova, Band of Vintners, Head High Wines
By Virginie Boone
Richards worked at Chappellet, Jordan, Keller Estate and Peter Michael before launching her own consulting business, where she has most recently partnered with Napa Valley-based Master Sommelier Desmond Echavarrie in Alta Nova Cellars to make an outstanding Cabernet Sauvignon priced under $100. To that end, the two have also partnered to make Band of Vintners, which probably offers the best quality-to-price ratio of any Napa Valley Cabernet known to man and woman right now.”
