That's their quick cellar, mass produced Pinot aimed at the general public. Easy to drink with a lot of fruit. Tastes too manufactured to me, but I get why it would be popular if your selection of pinots is limited.
You can actually stay the night their which can make a fun date get away. I think it's about 200 a night, but they give you about 120 in wine credit. Their restaurant isn't half bad either.
I live in Oklahoma, so yes it's extremely limited. Even more so because I'm in a smaller town, we get maybe 5-10 Oregon pinots at my store
Yeah...I read a thread about a bunch of people who bought a mystery 3 pack of really old Riesling for like $300 and thought they were misled (sounds like they probably were). With all these guys I think it's important to realize there isn't a shred of objectivity in their mailings. If you can cut through the hyperbole, I'm sure there are some pretty good deals. From an ethical standpoint, the riesling thing is enough to give me pause about actually doing business with garagiste but never hurts to see what the offer is and maybe someday he has something good enough to make me forget anything I read about him. Me personally, I wouldn't buy mystery anything for $100 a bottle. Might take a flyer on something at $15-20 but I think you're just asking for trouble going beyond that. At any rate...does anyone have much experience with Carlisle? I got an offer from them for a Syrah and two zinfandels, heard it was a great producer but don't know much beyond that.
They have a good reputation from wine geeks. I've only had one bottle, and it was entry level, but it was good.
It is a terrible feeling to open a bottle that you've had for a few years and then when you open it the bottle is corked. That happened to me tonight with a 2010 Chappellet Cabernet Sauvignon.
I purchased it through the wine club so I'm fairly confident they will credit or replace for it. I already sent an email informing them of the problem.
Their email response is that they will replace it but they do not have any of that vintage available. Instead they gave me 5 other vintages to choose from and I chose 2008 which as I recall I thought was an even better vintage. I love that kind of customer service.
Just drank 2 bottles of wine with the wife immortal zin and some Pinot noir only to have our 1 year old wake up puking. Awesome
My wife's pregnant, so I am enjoying a nice value Pinot instead of something much nicer. Carlton Cellars 2014 Seven Devils, priced $15 at Costco locally. Picked up a couple Adelaheim Elizabeth Reserve, 2013, for 32 a piece which is a steal there.
Wife got me the Mannequin, Palermo, and Pappillion by Orin Swift and the Creator by K Vintners for my Valentine's Day gift.
Tugging sensation is bizarre and uncomfortable but pain is near-nonexistent. And being weapons free forever after is nice.
Any recommendations for economical and/or diy wine shelving/storage options? Going to run out of room pretty quick once spring shipments start rolling in.
We have a couple of these in the basement for wine that's ready. All the stuff that we're sitting on just stays in the box, due to space, and keeping it out of sight. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30069762/
Does that fit burgundy and champagne size bottles? Right now looking at something like this with no drawers or racking then installing dividers myself: http://m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/spr/69133559/
I have these in a closet under my staircase and only store Pinot bottles. So from a sizing they will work, if out in the open not sure they will look as nice as you want. http://www.wineracksamerica.com/living-series/stackable/?PHPSESSID=c05a47d5364c22427b3ad551ed40494f
My gf lived in South Africa for a few months. Pinotage is her weapon of choice. Def goes well with your protein.
Still trying to figure out storage. Location is a basement on a 90 year old house, no forced air registers near. Furnace is a different room in the basement, cinder block interior and exterior walls. Ducts do run through, but maybe 6 feet away from the location of the current shelves. Took some temperature readings today. Bottom shelf is about 58* and top is 61* with furnace running and upstairs at 70*. It stays cool in the summer, but I've never axtually taken temperatures. Maybe a few degrees higher. Is that a workable environment for home storage without adding temperature control? Next house I'll do something more permanent, but debating what to do in the interim. That type of improvement wouldn't add much value to the current house with the area it's in. Ultimately I think I end up with about 500 bottles. Probably obtain 10 cases a year, drink some, cellar most and drink after 5 years on average. Not crazy expensive old world stuff, but want to make sure I don't ruin it as well. Debating whether it's worth buying more shelving or if I should look into off site options (I'd rather not)...
That seems good for medium term storage. The important thing is going to be the temperature in the summer and variance throughout the day. Slow changes are better than quick and staying 70 or lower is good. Ideal is obviously a lower temperature but if you're hitting 70 it isn't going to ruin the wine but rather just age it more quickly than if you're in the mid-50s. What you're really wanting to avoid is getting over 75. When I was living in a condo I had an off-site location where I kept my better wines. It was the basement/cellar of a large wine store that had excess capacity beyond their inventory. They charged me $2 per month per case so it works out to $2 per bottle per year. The only negative was that I had to give 24 hour notice to pull a bottle from storage because they don't allow direct access to customers. There is another wine store that sells locker spaces below their store that works out to about $4 per bottle per year if you fill the locker to capacity. $2-4 seems to be the range
I think I'm good then - it will never make it to 70 down there, confident in that. It stays cool even at the hottest parts of the summer, just maybe not 58-61. But to your point, probably worth doing something off site for anything that cost 100 or more that I'm not drinking soon.
Warehouse sale at the winestore. This was $150 all in with one of the bottles at $28. (Italian one in the middle is normally $50)
I don't care for Meomi but for free i would be down. Toss in some Belle Glos and then you got somethin.
Drank that and a De Ponte Clark hill (little too round for me) this evening. I have you to thank for both.
They Clay Hill is one that I open when the MIL is over or when its the second bottle of the night and I probably shouldn't be opening another bottle.
that's a valid reason for having a few bottles around Edit - and it's not a bad wine, but I generally prefer redder fruits
Those looking for wine storage options with temperature control but don't want to break the bank should take a hard look at Koolr: http://www.koolr.com/products/winekoolr Sold out until April 1, but I paid $695 for 120 bottles of storage and the temps are tightly controlled within +/- 0.5*F in the cabinet I got.