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Casey Hartlip wrote: ↑
November 30th, 2020, 6:10 am
Getting more and more depressed as I search the 10 day for a ray of hope. Non farmers often say to not worry about something you have no control over. I guess I was just born to bitch.

Casey -- If you had water, would you be actively irrigating?

I've been making this for a number of years now. Hands down the best egg nog recipe I have ever tried. It really does need 2-3 weeks (minimum) and I have taken to adding a split vanilla bean. Eggnog 10 eggs, separated 3 cups granulated sugar (Baker’s sugar is easiest) 1.5 pints (24 fluid ounces) whi...

Ulysse Collin for lunch

18 Sonoma County Syrah. Young young young but delicious

Five years will be 50, probably VWFRR (the only bottle remaining from a long ago acquired & consumed stash)

Does anyone know if this is a one off for Will, or will he have access to the same fruit going forward? Mine arrive today, going to be tough to layoff them for a while. I got the fruit in 18 & 19. I didn’t make anything in ‘20 due to smoke concerns, so we will see what happens going forward in rega...

Rye, simple syrup & Blenheim Red Cap. My take on the Husk Kentucky Mule. More of a summer cocktail, but delicious anytime.

Tom Blackwood wrote: ↑
October 1st, 2020, 7:49 am
Some more great beers the past week...
Trillium "Max Headroom"
Tree House "Perfect Storm"
Tree House "Juice Machine"
Monkish "Sticky Traffic"

Tom -- grab a 4 pack of King Citra @ Fieldwork. This is a particularly delicious batch imo.

It burned around Mending Wall. I do fear for some of our neighbors in the amphitheater around back

Fieldwork - Becky The Duck. This one flies a bit under the radar, don’t recall it being canned before. Anyhow it’s up and one of my favorites. Citra & Idaho7

First of three, sourced a mag for deep cellar William, How was it? I have the 2012s and 2013s that I’m saving for a while, and I’m sitting on some 2008’s. A 2008 I opened recently seemed to be in an early drinking window, and was fantastic. I drank all the remaining bottles of 2009’s at a restauran...

First of three, sourced a mag for deep cellar

JonathanG wrote: ↑
September 22nd, 2020, 12:27 pm
Sold out? I still show bottles available when I check my remaining allocation.

I think he was referring to MacDonald

In for 3 Shifflett Ranch Cabs and 2 Napa Cabs. Will, can you provide some more end more details on the vineyard source for the Napa? I think I heard it’s near Eisele. Is that right? Any other details you can’t share? Thank you (and thank you all) for the orders. The support you have shown us and th...

Nicholas C wrote: ↑
September 22nd, 2020, 9:14 am
Can anyone access their offering yet?

It just went live, was having some cart/checkout issues that were beyond my ability to fix.

Will - I happened to find some 2018 Anderson Valley at my local shop today. Anything you can share about this wine from tasting notes or drinking window? I can't seem to find much about it. We only made a few barrels (3-4 as I recall) and there was already a super allocated bottle in that release (...

‘‘twas a good one Haven’t tried one of those yet, store pick or otherwise. But the 107 is so solid how different could the Full Proof be? There are so many Weller products now. I think all of them have a regular OTS release (blend of barrels) & a SB release. Full proof in this case is 114, which wa...

‘‘twas a good one

GregP wrote: ↑
September 6th, 2020, 5:28 pm

0.5, nothing higher. Hate to do it to growers, but we also need to protect ourselves.

.5 is the detectable threshold for ETS is it not?

Thanks Will! Just ordered two 4pks to pick-up at the Napa Oxbow location. Its going to be a Green Cheek, Treehouse and Fieldworks DIPA weekend. Not familiar with Green Cheek but I'd put DDH Pulp up against anything from Treehouse, which I love. Enjoy the weekend, I know I will! And if you have room...

For CA residents,DDH Pulp is up on Fieldwork. Thanks for the recommendation. They opened a tap room down the street from me last year. Will pick up a growler, going to good beer drinking weather here this weekend. It's a truly special beer. You should grab a 4-pk as well, if you still can (pun inte...

For CA residents,DDH Pulp is up on Fieldwork.

I got to know Tom a bit. No one loved baseball more than he did. Amazing story teller. How often do you get to hear stories about Yogi Berra and the All-Star Game?

I feel so unsafe

Grabbed some of each, looking forward to seeing what Erin & Massimo were able to do in a great vintage like this.

Chrissy Tiegen cooking Flannery.

Interesting that the Napa Cab was offered by Firstbottle before the official release......... If you look at the production numbers on the Napa, its pretty big (relatively speaking). The 2017 did really well and the placements that we worked hard to get were asking for more, so we took the 18 out o...

Bill Tex Landreth wrote: ↑
August 28th, 2020, 4:18 pm

blarmston wrote: ↑
August 28th, 2020, 4:01 pm
Thanks Will. That Cemetery bottling has got me FIRED UP!
Same.

Will, where is the the vineyard located?

It is near Las Piedras, St. Helena west of 29

Thomas finished up the mailer this morning, so here you go, Berserker-exclusive. Can confirm there is a new SVD (Cemetery) and it is very good. Summer 2020 It is really hard to come up with a good name. That premise partially defines where Caterwaul came from. It’s a word I’ve loved for a long time....

Phil M wrote: ↑
August 27th, 2020, 1:47 pm
I don't know whether this is a Power Hour, but there certainly seems to be a theme (Justice, Vigilante, Tin Star)...just waiting for Rawhide Red....

I think these are/were all labels affiliated with the Bounty Hunter.

Smoke has been hanging out at elevation. Air quality in Napa has been better than Sacramento & San Francisco. Duration & wind direction will ultimately dictate how this goes but incredibly premature at this point to be drawing any conclusions.

08 Cristal is special

I hope your experience with 82 Salon is better than mine. Small sample size (2 btls, same lot) but both were heavily oxidized and to my palate (and those at the table) undrinkable.

the 10 day just took a step up, here we go.

I drive past Mumm every day on my way to work, they are rolling already. My IG feed already has some SB picks on it, looks like we are off and running.

Make sure you keep an eye on the temp, though. My experience with the NYs is that they can cook fast and dry out; I’ve done it a couple of times and, at $50-$60 a steak, wanted to kick myself in the ass. Amen to that. I hate cooking Flannery for get-togethers because I can easily get distracted and...

Most of you were able to see the TN's through the RM website last week. Here is tomorrow's mailer today. -- will The Vintage Thank goodness for 2018, a year of addition and in some cases, multiplication. After a lean 2017, we found and welcomed the opportunity to add blocks from almost every vineyar...

I often buy Saxum off the CC while I wait on the waitlist

Private pic Weller FP absolutely exists

I buy from them regularly. Cameron Hobel is the proprietor, great guy & friend. Buy with confidence

Vince L. wrote: ↑
July 14th, 2020, 1:35 pm
What's the typical shipping charges and can you only buy one or two bottles? this will be my first RM allocation.

3 bottle minimum, shipping included.

@Will Any insight on number of bottles from each vineyard? This is the allocation model I'm currently working with 4 - Napa 5 - Calistoga 6 - Panek 3 - Lore 3 - Herb Lamb Appreciate it! Looking forward to the release, will tasting notes be posted soon? I *should* have that by end of the week (Frida...

JohnP wrote: ↑
July 14th, 2020, 9:49 am
@Will Any insight on number of bottles from each vineyard?

This is the allocation model I'm currently working with

4 - Napa
5 - Calistoga
6 - Panek
3 - Lore
3 - Herb Lamb

Oops -- that Calistoga is a typo. It is $95/btl.

There is more Herb Lamb this year v. 2016, I suspect it will last a little longer. The one that will see the most pressure is the Lore.

I'm pretty sure this is just a small first wave of folks. Roy has had a lot on his plate of late and having been fortunate to try the 18 out of barrel a few times, he's smart to release slowly as I'm sure the demand is greater than the supply.

https://napavalleyregister.com/news/loc ... a76e3.html

Starting to see a few offers on this but very few and even less discussion. Anyone tried it?

Pretty disappointed that there are so few contributors to this thread. Don't know if there are some lurkers who don't care or others that don't see a monetary payout for posting. When I jumped in many years ago I seemed to see an opening that many wine geeks were wanting to hear about the daily lif...

If you don't absolutely need it, don't ship it. The network is better than it was in March/April, but still nowhere near what it 'used to be'.

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