These days, it’s a little easier to skip on this @ $500 a bottle although they are now offering it for purchase as single bottles rather then a 3 pack.
Let’s see 6 bottles of 07 maybach $660.00
1 bottle of Harlan Estate $500.00
Rob I need a couple of days to make this decision it’s a really tough one for me.
Chris did not sell out the 06. The 07 may be easier to sell with the scores he will receive. Have you put yourself on the wait list?
Check Commerce Corner, I bet with the economy and my guess that Sep-Oct may not do as well in the markets as the past 5 months, that there will be passers or sharers.
Has anyone you know had a profound experience with a Harlan? I’ve had many; I haven’t nor have I heard people talking about their wine epiphany when drinking a Harlan.
Combination brilliant marketing, quality wine, and Bob’s early enthusiastic endorsement in the pinnacle of his influence.
The 92 and 94 were darned good wines Wilfred. Not 82 Margaux or 61 Latour experiences but along with 94 Screaming Eagle, the finest California Cabs of that decade. $500 a bottle for the over ripe bombs he sells today. A joke.
For me, most every Harlan I have had has been an epihany. But clearly I am influenced by their clever marketing.
Having said that, this is likely my last year buying Harlan as I agree that the price is getting beyond silly. But as Harlan makes wine that hits the sweet spot of my palate I find it impossible not to buy their wine in a vintage as highly lauded as 2007.
Carrie, Bill Harlan told me one day in Septemeber 03 at my friend Jeff Gargulio’s house that he admired the Bordeaux futures campaign and that since Harlan Estate was tantamount to a First Growth, he thought it was only appropriate to mimic the Bordeaux Futures EP buying model. That was also the day that he poured the 97 from Magnum which was a spectacular wine. Sadly the 97’s in 750 he shipped me were not. VA tainted horrors.
This, I respect. If you have found them to provide an epiphany, then it makes sense to buy them. Its just that I don’t hear this from folks much but maybe I’m talking to the wrong people.
Jack, yes, good point, I’ve had the '94 many times and love that wine; but then, look how it was priced.
But even Curtis, for whom the wine hits his sweet spot, seems unwilling to pay the current price, which may suggest something’s off with their pricing plan.