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October 15th, 2019, 9:17 am

Thanks for the great retrospective offer Joel!! Quick trigger pulling got the 4 wines I was wanting. All of these will be making appearances at the next couple of Old Vine Offlines that Brian Tuite hosts.
1994 & 1996 Old Hill
1994 Belloni
1988 Dickerson

October 15th, 2019, 9:17 am

N. Justl wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:14 am
D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:10 am Wow. Stuff was there when I put it in the cart, but gone before I hit purchase. Still did well, just missed a couple of things.
Same. I missed on most of the Zins because I was too slow. Still an awesome haul of cabs, merlots, and blends though.

I got a mini-vertical of Cooke, and a Monte Rosso, but missed the Old Hill.

#153 Post by **Jason T** » October 15th, 2019, 9:17 am

AlexS wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:13 am 4 cases later...I don't even care if I missed anything - this is literally going to be drinking for the next couple years, such an incredible opportunity!

4.25 and I passed on a bunch of stuff. And a good friend of mine got a shade over 3, so hopefully these bottles are sound.

#154 Post by **Sh@n A** » October 15th, 2019, 9:18 am

Lost a few minutes as it did not seem to work on Chrome, and I went to Internet Explorer where it did worked. Lost a few items in my basket as you folks are very fast buying stuff! Seriously, like ninja fingers. I was able to snag a couple of the $95s and tried to rely on Joel's tasting notes (super helpful), but then realized i was missing out on stuff, so just checked out ~a case. It looks like I was charged shipping on every checkout, so I was charged shipping and charged multiple times, so will have to get that resolved. There is some stuff left if you go on Internet Explorer now. I will probably add a couple other bottles to try.

#155 Post by **Jeff_M.** » October 15th, 2019, 9:20 am

Stepped away from my desk and quite a few things were already gone. Still got in for 15 bottles. Thanks Joel

#156 Post by **Hank Victor** » October 15th, 2019, 9:20 am

in for 1 bottle of birth year zin

#157 Post by **PaulMills** » October 15th, 2019, 9:22 am

Bdklein wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:15 am
Free shipping ??? Not for me. Maybe depends on location and qty purchased ?

Case plus purchase.

October 15th, 2019, 9:25 am

Ultimately had to place three separate orders to grab 12 bottles. Stuff was disappearing fast!

#159 Post by **Nate Simon** » October 15th, 2019, 9:25 am

Dude.
Hurts so good.
Kept it under 4 figures. #winning

#160 Post by **Mike Evans** » October 15th, 2019, 9:26 am

I got:

2 Ravenswood 1990 Sonoma County Merlot $25.00 each

1 Ravenswood 1991 Sangiacomo Vineyard Merlot 100% Merlot $45.00 each

1 Ravenswood 1994 Sangiacomo Merlot 100% Merlot $45.00 each

1 Ravenswood 1994 Sonoma County Petite Sirah $25.00 each

1 Ravenswood 1988 Dickerson Vineyard Zinfandel 100% Zinfandel $75.00 each

I have my fingers crossed on 6 more I wish listed, mostly Belloni and Pickberry.

#161 Post by **joeduncan** » October 15th, 2019, 9:27 am

Got a mixed case (no duplicates), why not? Lots of possibility and I'm OK at these prices if not all of them turn out great. I was very happy to read in the note that all had been tasted a couple of times though, gives confidence that none are truly dead.

#162 Post by **Jason T** » October 15th, 2019, 9:27 am

AlexS wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:16 am
AD Northup wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:14 am
AlexS wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:13 am 4 cases later...I don't even care if I missed anything - this is literally going to be drinking for the next couple years, such an incredible opportunity!

Should add the most I bought of any bottle was 2 - vast majority were singletons of the $25 variety, which only makes this all the more fun!

We're going to need a master thread for the Once & Future Ravenswood library release TNs...

Same for me - mostly. Mostly 2, sometimes 3. Never more than that. Frankly I was just so blown away at the pricing that I just started clicking through everything I had on the list I made and grabbing a couple bottles. Finally got to a point where it seemed like everything I was after was in my basket (Monte Rosso and Teldeschi in particular). Figured I shouldn't get 'greedy' and should just try and check out with what I had. I think the whole thing was over in like 2 minutes but I kind of blacked out and don't remember.

#163 Post by **Jason T** » October 15th, 2019, 9:28 am

Nate Simon wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:25 am Dude.
Hurts so good.
Kept it under 4 figures. #winning

Nice work. I would have liked to keep it lower but I was too scared that if I went back and adjusted my quantities down on some I might lose out on others. There's a mushroom cloud in the vicinity of my wallet right now but I'm not sure I care. This is like, history.

#164 Post by **Jeff_M.** » October 15th, 2019, 9:29 am

D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:25 am Ultimately had to place three separate orders to grab 12 bottles. Stuff was disappearing fast!

I went back in to see if I missed anything and put a few things in my cart. When I went to check out there was only 1 bottle there. I didn't bother. Grateful for this opportunity to enjoy some older wines.

#165 Post by **N. Justl** » October 15th, 2019, 9:31 am

Jeff_M. wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:29 am
D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:25 am Ultimately had to place three separate orders to grab 12 bottles. Stuff was disappearing fast!
I went back in to see if I missed anything and put a few things in my cart. When I went to check out there was only 1 bottle there. I didn't bother. Grateful for this opportunity to enjoy some older wines.

Did you still get the free shipping with separate orders? I placed a 12 bottle order, and just emailed asking for some 92 SC Zin... We'll see.

October 15th, 2019, 9:31 am

I am seriously considering just holding a tasting with my wines.

October 15th, 2019, 9:32 am

N. Justl wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:31 am
Jeff_M. wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:29 am
D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:25 am Ultimately had to place three separate orders to grab 12 bottles. Stuff was disappearing fast!
I went back in to see if I missed anything and put a few things in my cart. When I went to check out there was only 1 bottle there. I didn't bother. Grateful for this opportunity to enjoy some older wines.
Did you still get the free shipping with separate orders? I placed a 12 bottle order, and just emailed asking for some 92 SC Zin... We'll see.

I sent them an email to ask about the shipping.

#168 Post by **Sh@n A** » October 15th, 2019, 9:33 am

"There is $35 pro-rated Ground shipping on orders of 6 bottles or more. Orders of 12 or more bottles ship for free!"

October 15th, 2019, 9:33 am

N. Justl wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:31 am
Jeff_M. wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:29 am
D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:25 am Ultimately had to place three separate orders to grab 12 bottles. Stuff was disappearing fast!
I went back in to see if I missed anything and put a few things in my cart. When I went to check out there was only 1 bottle there. I didn't bother. Grateful for this opportunity to enjoy some older wines.
Did you still get the free shipping with separate orders? I placed a 12 bottle order, and just emailed asking for some 92 SC Zin... We'll see.

Erika already emailed me to say she will get me the free shipping.

Top notch!

October 15th, 2019, 9:34 am

I asked for all of the 1991's. Hopefully that makes a fun horizontal.

#171 Post by **Anton D** » October 15th, 2019, 9:35 am

Holy cow!

Not sure what I actually purchased, but fun selections!

It seemed that things in my cart would get sold out as I was shopping.

At the end, I just hit the 'purchase' button and we'll see what went through!

October 15th, 2019, 9:36 am

I picked up 10 bottles of all Zin., and wishlists 4 additional bottles of zin. I didn’t read the email because I wanted to get my order in before everything sold out, otherwise I would’ve made it 12 bottles to get the free shipping.

Anyone in the Boston area wants to do a tasting later this year I’m in for a couple of bottles.

October 15th, 2019, 9:39 am

I should have set an alarm. Almost all wishlist. Dammit

#174 Post by **Sh@n A** » October 15th, 2019, 9:40 am

I really liked the tasting notes. They were very well done. I am going to save them down now, to have them in the future when I drink the wines.

#175 Post by **Tom Chen** » October 15th, 2019, 9:41 am

Sh@n A wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:18 am Lost a few minutes as it did not seem to work on Chrome, and I went to Internet Explorer where it did worked. Lost a few items in my basket as you folks are very fast buying stuff! Seriously, like ninja fingers. I was able to snag a couple of the $95s and tried to rely on Joel's tasting notes (super helpful), but then realized i was missing out on stuff, so just checked out ~a case. It looks like I was charged shipping on every checkout, so I was charged shipping and charged multiple times, so will have to get that resolved. There is some stuff left if you go on Internet Explorer now. I will probably add a couple other bottles to try.

Same thing happened, so I put together (very quickly) two 6 bottle orders so as to now lose out on any in cart. Had quite a feeding frenzy feel to it.
Once orders confirmed, I emailed them and asked about possibly consolidating the two orders to a case order and qualify for free shipping.
Erika responded right away and said yes.

Very excited to try some of these.

A bit of a backstory that makes this order even more special:
When I got married in 2002, I was trying to think of unique groomsmen gifts. Ended up ordering 10 bottles of 1997 Ravenswood (don't remember the vineyard) and having custom labels made for the bottles that included the date of our wedding, the location, and all the names of the groomsmen.

#176 Post by **Brian Tuite** » October 15th, 2019, 9:42 am

Picked about 10 different wines. Did the payment screen and sale came up as 1 bottle. Perhaps the rest were wishlisted. Not sure but don’t have time to go through the list again so fingers crossed.

#177 Post by **Jason T** » October 15th, 2019, 9:42 am

Sh@n A wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:40 am I really liked the tasting notes. They were very well done. I am going to save them down now, to have them in the future when I drink the wines.

There were tasting notes?

#178 Post by **Ron Slye** » October 15th, 2019, 9:43 am

AlexS wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:16 am
AD Northup wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:14 am
AlexS wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:13 am 4 cases later...I don't even care if I missed anything - this is literally going to be drinking for the next couple years, such an incredible opportunity!

Should add the most I bought of any bottle was 2 - vast majority were singletons of the $25 variety, which only makes this all the more fun!

We're going to need a master thread for the Once & Future Ravenswood library release TNs...

I did pretty much the same thing!

October 15th, 2019, 9:45 am

Grabbed 1 btl each of a merlot, zin, cab and Bordeaux blend and also wishlisted an 87 SC zin. Had no clue what i was doing but figured it’d be fun to try a variety of aged wines at great prices with the best provenance.

#180 Post by **joeduncan** » October 15th, 2019, 9:47 am

I went back over my purchased case, saving the tasting notes as bottle and purchase notes into Cellartracker. It's great to have these, especially given the complete lack of other useful notes on most of the wines. I had assumed I'd be buying primarily zin, but I ended up with 7 merlot, 1 cab, 1 petite sirah, 1 Bordeaux Blend, and only 2 zins.

#181 Post by **Jeff_M.** » October 15th, 2019, 9:49 am

N. Justl wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:31 am
Jeff_M. wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:29 am
D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:25 am Ultimately had to place three separate orders to grab 12 bottles. Stuff was disappearing fast!
I went back in to see if I missed anything and put a few things in my cart. When I went to check out there was only 1 bottle there. I didn't bother. Grateful for this opportunity to enjoy some older wines.
Did you still get the free shipping with separate orders? I placed a 12 bottle order, and just emailed asking for some 92 SC Zin... We'll see.

No. It showed shipping for less than 12 bottles so I just didn't buy. All good. Happy I was able to get what I get. Hope my wish list pops a few more.

#182 Post by **Brian Tuite** » October 15th, 2019, 9:53 am

Mike Stoneking wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:17 am Thanks for the great retrospective offer Joel!! Quick trigger pulling got the 4 wines I was wanting. All of these will be making appearances at the next couple of Old Vine Offlines that Brian Tuite hosts.
1994 & 1996 Old Hill
1994 Belloni
1988 Dickerson

Old Vine Offline #6
Next month at my place!

kyledorsey · #183 Post by **kyledorsey** » October 15th, 2019, 9:58 am

I got wrecked by you guys! Had a cart loaded up with neat things only to find that it was empty by the time of checkout. Went back through the process and picked up a handful of things and wish-listed many many others. Very excited to taste these.

October 15th, 2019, 10:02 am

Had 8 bottles selected, but only 5 made it to checkout.

October 15th, 2019, 10:03 am

That was fun.

In for a mixed case.

1 Ravenswood 1991 Gregory Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot

1 Ravenswood 1992 Gregory Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot

2 Ravenswood 1998 Gregory Vineyard Merlot 100% Merlot

1 Ravenswood 1993 Sonoma County Merlot

2 Ravenswood 1989 Summers Vineyard Merlot 100% Merlot

1 Ravenswood 1995 Rancho Salina Vineyard 42% Cabernet Franc, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot

1 Ravenswood 1997 Big River Zinfandel 100% Zinfandel

1 Ravenswood 1999 Big River Zinfandel 100% Zinfandel

2 Ravenswood 1992 Sonoma County Zinfandel

October 15th, 2019, 10:21 am

1 1995 Donnell Merlot
1 1995 Rancho Salina
2 1994 Sangiacomo Merlot
2 1997 Estate Merlot
2 1991 Cooke Zin
2 1994 Cooke Zin
1 1996 Cooke Zin
1 1993 Monte Rosso Zin

Somehow I ended up with five bottles of Merlot. Go figure.

#187 Post by **Jeff_M.** » October 15th, 2019, 10:29 am

I also ended up with a bit of Merlot. I think several of the bottles I tried to purchase were already spoken for by the time I got to the shopping cart.

1 Ravenswood 1988 Gregory Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
1 Ravenswood 1997 Estate Vineyard Merlot
2 Ravenswood 1998 Estate Vineyard Merlot
3 Ravenswood 1998 Gregory Vineyard Merlot
1 Ravenswood 1993 Sonoma County Merlot
1 Ravenswood 1989 Summers Vineyard Merlot
2 Ravenswood 1995 Rancho Salina Vineyard
2 Ravenswood 1999 Big River Zinfandel
1 Ravenswood 1993 Dickerson Vineyard Zinfandel
1 Ravenswood 1992 Sonoma County Zinfandel

October 15th, 2019, 10:30 am

My first mistake was to actually read everything first. Then start filling the cart...and watching everything vanish before I hit submit. 4 bottles purchased with several wished but I am not expecting any of those to get fulfilled. Oh well....looking forward to the few I snagged.

Cheers,
JP

#189 Post by **Sh@n A** » October 15th, 2019, 10:38 am

Happy to set up an offline in NY and split a few bottles that I purchased/have others bring theirs. Would have to be an odd time around the holidays, unless we pushed to Jan/Feb.

#190 Post by **Nate Simon** » October 15th, 2019, 10:53 am

The one I’m really intrigued to try is the ‘94 Icon. Recent vintages are a blend IIRC, but Joel says the ‘94 is all Syrah.

#191 Post by **Sh@n A** » October 15th, 2019, 10:55 am

Nate Simon wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 10:53 am The one I’m really intrigued to try is the ‘94 Icon. Recent vintages are a blend IIRC, but Joel says the ‘94 is all Syrah.

I picked up 2. Wanted to pick up more as I too was intrigued by the Syrah and price is really good. It was still available after everything else was sold out. I wonder if it was an easter egg..

YLee · #192 Post by **YLee** » October 15th, 2019, 11:11 am

was busy at a meeting. Missed it. lol

all good... more money for other wines.

#193 Post by **Sean_S** » October 15th, 2019, 11:22 am

AD Northup wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 9:04 am Order live. Happy to get what I wanted (didn't work on chrome, only safari)

Thanks Joel. Prices were very fair

I had that issue as well with Chrome and glad I discovered that but unfortunately that cost me a few minutes and missed some choice bottles.

Really like the pickup at Bedrock options for the locals...

I got quite a few of the bottles I wanted but the Monterosso's disappeared before I could order only minutes after it went live...
Sean

October 15th, 2019, 11:50 am

YLee wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 11:11 am was busy at a meeting. Missed it. lol

all good... more money for other wines.

Same here. Plus my Dirty and Rowdy shipment showed up today, I will try not to purchase anything until Berserker day.

#195 Post by **Jason T** » October 15th, 2019, 12:14 pm

Sh@n A wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 10:38 am Happy to set up an offline in NY and split a few bottles that I purchased/have others bring theirs. Would have to be an odd time around the holidays, unless we pushed to Jan/Feb.

I couldn’t do the holidays. Could maybe do Jan, and would happily contribute some bottles.

#196 Post by **AlexS** » October 15th, 2019, 12:22 pm

If any WBers are ever stranded in Milwaukee just hmu and we'll open some.

October 15th, 2019, 12:44 pm

Jason T wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 12:14 pm
Sh@n A wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 10:38 am Happy to set up an offline in NY and split a few bottles that I purchased/have others bring theirs. Would have to be an odd time around the holidays, unless we pushed to Jan/Feb.
I couldn’t do the holidays. Could maybe do Jan, and would happily contribute some bottles.

Could be fun and also throw in some old ridge, turley, etc.

Ian S · #198 Post by **Ian S** » October 15th, 2019, 12:57 pm

You vultures didn't leave anything except a couple Merlots! Guess I'm stuck in the field when the luck was on the road.

#199 Post by **adam landa** » October 15th, 2019, 1:01 pm

Picked up a mix of 14 bottles, so lucked out with free shipping. Joel's notes were very helpful and otherwise relied on what I know of solid CA years in the 90s. I lost a few minutes trying on Firefox before moving to Chrome. Very appreciative of Joel's efforts to make these wines available and reasonably priced.

And I would add that it's refreshing to purchase wines with a drinking period of right now!

#200 Post by **joeduncan** » October 15th, 2019, 1:02 pm

Ian S wrote: ↑October 15th, 2019, 12:57 pm You vultures didn't leave anything except a couple Merlots! Guess I'm stuck in the field when the luck was on the road.

Wow, just looked and you're right. Only 2 merlots left at all, everything else isn't even allowing wish list now, just says "SOLD OUT". Great sale Joel!