Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry & Gemstone Vineyard Auction Designed a Ruby-Encrusted Wine Bottle Raising USD 110,000 for Cancer Research

Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry and Gemstone Vineyard Auction Created a Ruby-Encrusted Wine Bottle for the 2022 V Foundation Wine Celebration in Napa Valley, Raising $110,000 for Cancer Research.

Hollywood Stylist Jen Rade Hosts an On-Site Beauty Bar and Styles Wine Celebration Gala Guests with Glam Jewelry by Stephen Silver.

Menlo Park, California | New York, New York (August 9, 2022) — Silicon Valley jeweller Stephen Silver and Napa Valley's Gemstone Vineyard partnered once again to construct the world's first Jeroboam wine bottle adorned with rubies. The 3L bottle of Thomas Rivers Brown's Gemstone Ruby Barrel Selection Cabernet Sauvignon was part of a charity auction package for the 2022 V Foundation Wine Celebration, held in Napa Valley on Saturday, August 6, 2022. After consuming the wine, the owner may return the bottle to Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry, where the hand-selected stones will be extracted and reset into a bespoke jewellery item. The experiential auction package, which featured an ultra-exclusive hosted VIP Hollywood event in Beverly Hills, garnered $110,000 for cancer research, adding to the total of $6.5 million raised.

A Vintage Jewel in a Precious Ruby-Set BottleThe idea was led by fellow Wine Celebration Board members Jared Silver, President of Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry, and Amy Dornbusch, Owner of Gemstone Vineyard. The product of their third straight philanthropic partnership reunited the philanthropy-driven partners who also have a love for creating unique gems for clientele with exquisite taste.

Only five bottles set with exquisite rubies have been created to yet. The 2022 bottle auction price of $110,000 exceeded the initial series of four bottles that were auctioned at the 2020 V Foundation Wine Celebration for $75,000 apiece.

Jared Silver, president of Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry and event sponsor for 2022, said, "The results of the 2020 auction far surpassed our expectations, and we were thrilled to raise even more dollars for the V Foundation and cancer research in 2022."

The winning bidder got a unique 3L bottle of Gemstone Ruby Barrel Selection Cabernet Sauvignon adorned with hand-selected rubies by Jared Silver. After award-winning winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown has skillfully matured and blended the wine, it will be put into a 3L bottle that has been engraved, waxed, and set with exactly matched rubies. The bottle is packaged in a "jewelry"-style box. The vintage itself is a highly coveted jewel that is often only accessible via Gemstone Vineyard on a waitlist.

The Hollywood Procedure

The winning bidder will also have the opportunity to be treated like Hollywood royalty, joining Jared Silver, Amy and Adam Dornbusch on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Beverly Hills, where they will enjoy a taste of the celebrity lifestyle with four-star plus accommodations in Los Angeles, dinner at a top restaurant, and a private Bentley and driver for the duration of the stay, courtesy of Bentley Motors, Inc. The winner will get the ruby-encrusted 3L bottle of Gemstone Ruby Barrel Selection Cabernet Sauvignon on their hosted trip in February 2023.

Prior to the Saturday evening charity dinner, the Napa Valley to Hollywood theme continued. As a special treat for visitors, Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry and Gemstone Vineyard collaborated with celebrity stylist Jen Rade to present an on-site beauty bar, assisting guests in selecting and borrowing stunning Stephen Silver jewellery for the evening.

Amy Dornbusch, proprietor of Gemstone Vineyard and co-chair of the 2022 V Foundation Wine Celebration, said, "This partnership is a tribute to our friendship and shared ambition to discover a cancer treatment."

Lot 4 at the live auction for the 2022 V Foundation Wine Celebration featured the following:

• 3L Gemstone Ruby Barrel Selection Cabernet Sauvignon with Ruby Encrustation

• Custom Jewelry Design with Jeroboam Rubies by Stephen Silver

• Two VIP Tickets to a prestigious Hollywood awards presentation in Beverly Hills

• One room for two nights at a four-star hotel in Los Angeles, California

• A Private Bentley with Chauffeur

• Dinner for Two at a Remarkable Restaurant

About Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry

Stephen Silver is a gemologist, geologist, diamantaire, and philanthropist located in Silicon Valley. Silver's ability in diamond and colour gemstone cutting and jewellery creation has earned him a reputation among his worldwide network of jewellery industry connections and top gemstone collectors over the last four decades. Silver moved to the San Francisco Bay Area after completing his geology studies at San Diego State University and getting a Graduate Gemologist degree from the Gemological Institute of America to establish an estate jewellery business focusing in antiques and precious stones. There, he gained access to some of history's most significant coloured gems, such as the famous Cullinan Blue Diamond necklace, which he later purchased and donated to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and the Pink Promise Diamond, which he recut and improved, resulting in a record price per carat at auction in 2017. In recent years, Jared Silver, son and president of Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry, joined his father in expanding the firm into a vertically integrated wholesale manufacturing and retail organisation with worldwide reach, headquartered in and around Menlo Park, California. For more details, please visit shsilver.com.The Silvers are well-known in Silicon Valley not just for their expertise in gemstones, jewellery, and timepieces, but also for their considerable humanitarian efforts. As lifetime residents of the San Francisco Bay area, they have been persistent and substantial donors to several charities, giving millions of dollars to regional organisations.

Gemstone Ruby Barrel Selection Cabernet Sauvignon Description

Our Ruby Barrel Variety Cabernet Sauvignon is our smallest production wine, and it honours Ruby, the first-born child of our founder. Our winemaker picks just four barrels from each vintage for this wine, analysing each individually vinified lot and combining for a wonderful mix of fruit flavour, strength, acidity, and structure - a complete representation of our estate. We prefer to consider our Ruby Cabernet Sauvignon as a tribute to both Gemstone Vineyard's heritage and the family's future. Twenty months of ageing in 100% brand-new French oak. Only 100 bottles were made.

Concerning Gemstone Vineyard

Over the last 25 years, Gemstone Vineyard has produced award-winning estate Cabernet Sauvignons. The vineyard was meticulously chosen based on its distinct geological qualities and planted with a complex array of clonal selections and blocks, which are vinified independently to ensure the highest quality. Thomas Rivers Brown, a renowned star in the wine industry and one of the most sought-after winemakers in Napa Valley, develops the Gemstone wines using a sophisticated blending procedure that allows distinct portions of the Gemstone terroir to define each of the three Cabernets from the estate. The 16-acre vineyard is situated in the Yountville Appellation of Napa Valley, immediately east of Pritchard Hill, on alluvial deposits. Robert Parker once referred to Gemstone as the "golden triangle" of Napa Valley. Gemstone has a restricted production of less than 1,500 cases, which are offered solely to allocation members along with a few chosen restaurants, such as The French Laundry, Per Se, and the Michael Mina restaurant group. Amy and Adam Dornbusch are committed to the ongoing quality of their vineyard and wines, as well as the continuation of the Gemstone tradition. www.gemstonevineyard.com

Gemstone Vineyard has been a proud vintner partner of the V Foundation Wine Celebration for over a decade and has raised well over $1,000,000 for cancer research via its own charitable donations and unique auction lots.