Major Theft At Dalton Winery, Rogov

Post Title: Major Theft At Dalton Winery
Posted by: Rogov at 02:48 October 9,2005
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During this weekend, thieves broke through the gates at the Dalton Winery in the Upper Galilee, disconnected the alarm system and then loaded 20,000 bottles of Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from the 2002 and 2003 vintages onto trucks before making their way to wherever it is that such thieves make their way.
The damage to the winery is major. In addition to the winery's evaluation of the loss at 3 million shekels, this means that many of the 2003 wines, many of which during my barrel and advance tastings showed to be of excellent quality, will not be available for market. The 2003 wines were scheduled to be released in the next few months.

The winery is offering a NIS 25,000 reward for information leading to the apprehension of the thieves. Perhaps more important to members of our forum, the bottles are labeled and numbered so should anyone see the 2003 Cabernet or Merlot on the market (the Shiraz has already been released), it would be a good thing either to inform the winery or, if that is not convenient, to let me know, informing of precisely where the wines are being sold. As is obvious, the more details that can be supplied, the better.

I will be receiving copies of the labels either today or tomorrow and will post at least one of those here in order to help in identifying the bottles when they do show up.

Best,
Rogov