By the Numbers
 

Fifty dollars
Corkage fee at the French Laundry

105 by 84 feet
Size of a regulation croquet court

$7.6 million
Money raised at this year's Napa Valley Wine Auction

79
Number of shark attacks reported worldwide last year

Zero
Number of shark attacks reported in Napa County last year

700 degrees
Temperature of the wood-fired oven at Piatti in Yountville

$800
Most expensive bottle on the wine list at Meadowood (a 1997 Bryant Family Vineyard)

One ton
Weight of grapes required to make 143 gallons of wine

240
Number of bottles in a standard oak wine barrel

$75
Cost of a taxi from the Napa airport to Calistoga

$147.88
One day rental of a Jaguar sedan from Budget

29 degrees
Coldest temperature ever recorded in Napa in October

3.04 inches
Average rainfall in Napa in November

40,000 and 5,000
Number of acres of vineyards planted in Napa County (800 square miles) and British Columbia (366,800 square miles) respectively

$85
Cost of a pound of duck foie gras at Dean & Deluca

Five
Number of Academy Awards Rutherford vintner Francis Ford Coppola has on his mantle

32
Number of photographs in Mumm Cuvée Napa's permanent Ansel Adams collection

4,336 feet
Altitude at the summit of Mount St. Helena

About 8,000
Number of barrels stored in the 44,000 square feet of caves at Rutherford Hill Winery

$100
Cost to adopt an animal for a year at Connolly Ranch in Browns Valley

Zero
Number of restaurants in the Napa Valley where cigarette smoking is permitted