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Old Creek Ranch Winery

Old Creek Ranch Winery is an unusual entry in the California auction record: a Paso Robles estate with a $653 average price per bottle — exceeding many Napa ultra-premiums — across 312 lots centred on Cabernet Sauvignon and a generic Red Wine blend. The high per-bottle average suggests that the estate's lots are sold predominantly in multi-bottle formats at concentrated premium auction rates, or that the wines have attracted a highly specific collector niche not reflected in broader market recognition. Located in Paso Robles, the estate produces Cabernet Sauvignon from warm, limestone-rich soils that give the wine a distinctively ripe, full-bodied character. The 2005 vintage tops the Cabernet record at $734 average per bottle, while the Red Wine blend peaks in 2013 at $566. With 81 lots of the Cabernet and 75 of the Red Wine, the data set is large enough to establish the figures as genuine rather than a statistical anomaly. At these price levels, Old Creek Ranch stands as one of the most valuable small-production Paso Robles estates in the secondary market, though its profile remains specialist rather than broadly traded.