1983 Novitiate Red Diner Wine

[Drew]

Welcome, Philip.
I did a little research and discovered that the winery was originally built to produce sacramental wines. The Novitiate winery grew a number of fine wine varieties. The winery is now owned by Testarossa Vineyards. 1983 was an average year for California wines showing much irregularity in quality, according to my references, also the Novitiates were not known to produce quality wines. Your wine, even given pristine provenance, is probably not drinkable and it's only value might be as an oddity collectable to someone. You might try ebay but I have no price reference point to suggest. My sense is it has little to no value. Go to the below link and scroll down to Testarossa and you'll see a Novitiate winery label.
http://www.weimax.com/cal2.htm

Drew



[This message has been edited by Drew (edited 12-27-2003).]