{"id":1135,"date":"2018-12-31T15:28:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2019-01-03T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T19:13:08","slug":"the-bounty-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"The Bounty Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article is another in Power Tasting\u2019s series on great wine bars of the world.\u00a0 The most recent additions to this list were Vinauberge<\/a> in Languedoc and Petits Creux et Grand Crus <\/a>in Qu\u00e9bec City.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>We have written about the Bounty Hunter before<\/a>, in the context of things to do in the town of Napa while you are on a wine tasting trip.\u00a0 It deserves to be taken on its own merits, as a place to sample some pretty good wine in a, shall we say, distinctive setting. Located on the corner of 1st and Main Streets, the Bounty Hunter (http:\/\/www.bountyhunterwinebar.com\/<\/a>) attempts to bring the ambiance of Western movie set saloon to the modern-day tourist mecca that is Napa Valley.\u00a0 And, to our point of view, it succeeds.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo courtesy of timeout.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the old Western films, a bounty hunter was not a nice person, but rather reminiscent of Inspector Javert in Les Miserables<\/em>.\u00a0 Fear not; we can attest that the people at the Bounty Hunter are all very pleasant and helpful in selecting wines to drink.\u00a0 And help is often needed, as you have a choice of 40 wines to order by the glass and 400 by the bottle.<\/p>\n

You may already know about the Bounty Hunter even if you\u2019ve never been there.\u00a0 If you\u2019re a wine lover (and why would you be reading Power Tasting if you\u2019re not?) you\u2019re probably on a buyers\u2019 list so you may have received their catalog in the mail.\u00a0 It\u2019s notable in the way that they highlight individual producers, mostly but not exclusively from California, and it makes good reading even if you\u2019re not buying.\u00a0 The wines in the catalog, for the most part, are the same wines you can order at the saloon.<\/p>\n

The layout of the Bounty Hunter places the bar at the rear (unless you enter from the parking lot, in which case it\u2019s the front) and restaurant tables at the street entrance.\u00a0 The restaurant specializes in what the proprietors aptly describe as \u201cSmokin\u2019 BBQ\u201d.\u00a0 Although some of their wines do go with barbecue \u2013 Zinfandel always works for us \u2013 they have many high quality, rather delicate wines to choose from.\u00a0 We think their idea is for you to drink a rough, tough wine with dinner and then take a bottle of Burgundy home with you.<\/p>\n

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The interior of the Bounty Hunter.\u00a0 Photo courtesy of oenomad.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

We must note the d\u00e9cor, which is notable for old Wild West posters, the heads of dead animals and a florid nude over the bar.\u00a0 All that\u2019s missing is a piano player. \u00a0You can easily imagine Black Bart walking through the front door to have it out with the sheriff.<\/p>\n

It would all be very kitsch, except for that wine list.\u00a0 The by-the-glass offerings change frequently.\u00a0 You can look up the choices on their web site, but why bother.\u00a0 As of this writing, they offer quite a few wines we know well (e.g., Veuve Cliquot, Frog\u2019s Leap, Renwood, Chappelet) and then many more with which we are unacquainted such as Poetic Justice, Jigar or Ken Wright.\u00a0 A sign of a good wine bar is that if you are comfortable with the wines you do know, you can have the confidence to experiment with the ones you don\u2019t.\u00a0 The Bounty Hunter also offers eleven flights of wines to help guide your experiments (including one to go with barbecue).<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t go to Napa Town without stopping for a glass or a meal at the Bounty Hunter.\u00a0 We recommend that you do the same.<\/p>\n

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This article is another in Power Tasting\u2019s series on great wine bars of the world.\u00a0 The most recent additions to this list were Vinauberge in Languedoc and Petits Creux et Grand Crus in Qu\u00e9bec City. \u00a0We have written about the Bounty Hunter before, in the context of things to do in the town of Napa … Continue reading The Bounty Hunter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}