Don’t think you can go wrong with that for that price point. I’ve got two in the cooler from our trip that I’m saving for special occasions down the road
we are having a kid around christmas time. Thinking about getting a nice bottle of wine for my wife for christmas/baby present. She is a big fan of bella union cabernet. looking for something under $200. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Just ordered a bottle of Caymus Cab Special Selection 2015 and Sequoia Grove 2016 for $177 with shipping using a Total Wine Promo $60 off $200 or more purchase using an Amex. The code is 2734
Finally bought a bottle of Caymus. Trying to decide between that and my 2015 Isoceles for Christmas Eve. Leaning Caymus bc that Isoceles is one of my favorite wines and the vintage was really good imo
Can't vouch for quality but they are going out of business and their stuff is 65% off with $30 flat rate shipping per case. Some of the wines get some decent ratings on cellar tracker. http://davenportcellars.orderport.net/wines/red
Been enjoying the Hartford Court Pinots lately. Lands Edge and the base Russian River are both nice values and easy to find. The Arrendell and Haileys Block were both outstanding.
I wish I could get some good west coast wines shipped here but damn state laws don't allow it . But on the good side is i have a winery 1/2 mile from my house that makes a pretty good chardonnay.
I pulled a 2008 Chappellet Pritchard Hill Cabernet Sauvignon for dinner tonight. It’s drinking very well immediately upon opening.
just ordered a case and a half of the wine i mentioned above. after tax and shipping it came out to $13/bottle. The owner posted this message on the wine forum. am an owner of Davenport Cellars along with my wife, and the winemaker. I noticed a few questions and figured I should respond. Our philosophy on winemaking is to express the vine and vintage. What that means is our wines depict the nuances of the vintage (weather) and express varietal typicity. We have been making the R.H.D. and Continuity blends since 2007, our first vintage. We use a minimalist approach to winemaking. After pressing, we settle the wines in stainless for a week and then rack off of the gross lees into French oak barrels. We purchased about 66% new oak each year. The Cab was targeted with a higher percent of new oak 70-75%, and the Merlot about 50%. Oak was used to add some subtle complexity. Once in barrel the wine was left untouched for 18-28 months, except for monthly topping. When we were getting close to bottling we would bring our tasting panel together to taste through the barrels. While our Cab may have come from a single vineyard, the 13+ barrels were all different due to fermenting with different yeasts and sourcing barrels from four to seven different coopers. After the panel tastes and ranks the barrels, I begin the process of building test blends. Our varietal wines were not necessarily produced every year because we wanted the wine to truly express the grape. If we couldn't do that using 100% of that grape, we didn't produce it. We could have added Merlot, or Cab, or a splash of Syrah at times to tweak the wine but... we just chose to not do it. Once the test blends are tasted and finalized, we blend the entire lot and bottle un-fined and unfiltered. The reds then see 10-14 months of bottle age before release (whites were aged 3-8 months depending on stainless or oak fermentation). The website still shows retail pricing. If you load your cart you will see the discount at checkout. We retired from our day jobs in 2013 (me) and 2017 (my wife). We are now at a point in our lives where we want more time for ourselves and family and have decided to exit the business. This sale runs through 5pm on December 29th... if you snooze, you'll lose. After that, and into 2020, any remaining wine will continue to be sold online, at local wine events, and to restaurants and wine shops.
Had a few nice bottles last night at our wine director's place. The Paul Achs messed with my head a lot, smell was so deceiving to the taste. But that Alsace Pinot was fantastic. Our bar got an American exclusive on that champagne and very excited to get people drinking that.
They are small and don't distribute to the US at all. We will be the only place in America you can buy it. They aren't super expensive either. Only $40-50.
Are you in California? Just curious as I have been on a Champagne kick recently. Looked it up and you can get it from K&L Wines https://www.klwines.com/p/i?i=1425027
We had Chinese food with some spice so I'm drinking 2012 Zind-Humbrecht Riesling from Alsace. Pretty, pretty good.
It was my only bottle so I don't have a point of comparison. It was good but not great. I'm guessing I would have preferred it 5 years ago with a bit more fruit up front but I have no experience drinking the same wine over a 15 year window to feel confident in that and frankly not enough BDX experience to make great generalizations.
The average ASP for Pinot in my cellar is around 50 and my wife cut off buying wine for the time being until I actually drink some of it, so I know the feeling. That is one of my favorite bottles.
I'm trying to proactively tweak purchases/clubs to get to a point where I'm flat to decline in bottles. I'm also looking through and drinking things like this Insignia, which was one of my first splurges 10+ year ago, that felt like they needed too special of an occasion to actually drink.
Wasn't the saying on Sideways something to the effect of, "when you open the bottle, that's the special occasion"
I don’t want to open any nice bottles tonight so I’m stuck going to publix to buy something decent and decently priced. I have my regulars I go with; but any recs? Cab or Pinot is what I’m looking for.
Publix carries a Justin Paso Robles Cab that's normally on sale and is pretty solid. It's like ~$20-25, IIRC.
I get freak show at publix, they usually have it on sale. Their Pinot selection in the 15-25 kind of sucks. At least at my location.
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IF only I could have alcohol shipped to me in my state. Have to 3rd party it because of state laws. :sadpanda:
Well I just bought six bottles of syrah from a winery I never even heard of in an area better known for growing weed. This is your fault.