Simi Hotel Del Monte Claret Value

[Jerry D Mead]

That's a toughy. It will be a matter of finding a willing buyer, as likely to be someone into old bottles as to old wine. Simi sold those 1/2 bottles out of the tasting room for a few dollars for several years and there's a lot of those bottles around.

They sold them that way because in the half bottle size they were very uneven in quality (and this was 20 years ago)...some were tasty and some were definitely over the hill. So they sold them more or less as souvenirs with a caution that they might not be drinkable (some of us opened them anyway out of curiosity).

Its greatest value might be in keeping it around as a conversation piece.

JDM