I need some help from you gurus out there. If you wanted to give a couple of bottles of premium quality California wines to some business partners from France, who also happen to be in the wine industry in Bordeaux, what would you pick? My thought was that it might be better to look for some really great, but small production type wineries. The idea being that if you just give them a $100 but well known wine they'd probably already be familiar with it and might not appreciate it as much as something more unusual (to them, anyway). Or maybe go with a high profile wine, but track down an older vintage?
Money is not an object (well, maybe under 200 or so a bottle). Any suggestions? Let's say 3 different wines, what would you get?
Max