Miramonte to Supply Z Gallerie Decorative Wine Bottle.

(Don McAuliffe/Temecula/Dec. 9, 2007) Miramonte Winery has agreed to supply home furnishings retailer Z Gallerie with wine for its first decorative wine bottle, in addition to providing 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon for Z Gallerie’s Skeleton Cellars decorative wine bottle,

Miramonte will manage all of the online sales of the product, which can be purchased empty or full of fine wine at www.zgallerie.com and www.celebrationcellars.com. The empty 750 ml bottle sells for $32, while the version filled with Miramonte wine is available for $64


“This is an exciting opportunity for us to further expand our line of custom art label wines,” said Cane Vanderhoof, who owns Miramonte and Celebrity Cellars custom bottling and etching business. “To meet growing demand for these specialized products, we are in the process of increasing our staff by about 40 percent.”

Earlier this year Miramonte agreed to provide etched bottles and wine to Celebrity Cellars, a California company that produces highly collectible, very limited edition, star tribute wine bottles for notables such as the Kiss, Rolling Stones, Madonna and Celine Dion.

Miramonte also created and manages wine clubs for the celebrities.

The Z Gallerie bottle comes with an artful canvas label illustrated with a chic silver skull. The 2005 Miramonte Cabernet Sauvignon features deep, concentrated blueberry, blackberry and cherry flavors, with nuances of lavender, fresh mocha and toasted oak. It was aged two years in premium French oak.

Founded in 1979, Los Angeles-based Z Gallerie employs more than 1,000 workers at 76 stores in 24 states. One of its newest stores recently opened at Dos Lagos south of Corona.

Miramonte this year moved the Celebration Cellars bottle-etching business out of its winery on Rancho California Road to a 5,700-square-foot industrial building in Temecula. It employs as many as 50 workers during peak periods.

Celebration Cellars has been a leading producer of etched and personalized wine and champagne bottles for individuals, corporations and celebrities for the past 15 years. In that time, the company has shipped thousands of bottles of wine to customers from Antarctica to Saudi Arabia.

Since acquiring Miramonte in 2001, Vanderhoof has help make it one of the most respected and heavily awarded wineries in Southern California.

He works hard to produce wines of depth, character and sophistication in a style that focuses on intensity, individuality, regional distinction and elegance of expression.

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