Just run every purchase by your wife first. Should solve that problem lol
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Yeah, that sounds like ZERO fun…… 
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It’s always fun when my wife come home and snidely announces - Another case of wine? Are you F—-ing crazy? My only out is when i say that I share each case with a friend.
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Six pak offering of Lots 2 & 10 made me yield today. I had resisted the cases of each even though tempting. However, same per bottle pricing for the split case was too much to resist. Thanks Cam for listening to others on the thread about split cases
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And then mutter under your b
And then mutter under your breath as you walk away “my imaginary friend who I drink them with”.
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I always spilt the case with my wife. Rarely does she she no to another case
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I actually do have a friend i split it with !!!
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@Nate_Simon - That goes without saying !!! I always get the stink-eye unless i tell her its rose/whites for when your girlfriends come over…
I wonder how many of us have some catchphrase to take the sting out of arrivals? With me it’s always “oh I bought this 6 months ago” when a case shows up. It’s occasionally true! 
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I tried that approach but my wife gets alerts from Visa so -I am screwed. Funny thing is that she drinks the wine i buy !! She literally just walked into the house and said WTF, you bought more wine ?
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I used to get this a lot, I believe I wore her down 
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“Danger Will Robinson”!
She’s just saving it up for the big one!
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I think the best approach is to remind her each time she opens a bottle of wine where it came from !
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Trust me , she knows !!
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Not much to go on for a guess, other than the blend AVA %. It’s interesting that the last two offers have had heavy amounts of Coombsville fruit in them.
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No ABV listed
I’ll get the guessing game started with Louis Martini’s ‘The Gryphon’. If Stagecoach was the ‘estate vineyard’ for the last offer, then this wine would also have to fall under the Gallo portfolio. Roughly $100 program, pulls from top AVAs throughout Napa (though not finding a specific breakdown), and recent vintages have been very close on the varietal breakdown. Not really loving this guess (and not sure how that little tidbit re: ‘the focus is typically on Cabernet clones’ fits in), but - as mentioned above - also not much info to go off of.
Take two: If Stagecoach wasn’t the last estate vineyard and this is separate from Gallo, I’ll submit Bell Wine Cellar’s ‘Reserve’ Cabernet as an alternative guess. They certainly focus on clones for Cab, this bottle is roughly $100, and comes from multiple AVAs throughout Napa, and also has a similar historical varietal breakdown.
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The way that I read it, this offering and the last offering are not related. In other words, this offering is not part of the 11 that he purchased from the same producer. The last offering said that it’s the exact bottled blend from the producer, and this one says that it is not.
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Another without-hesitation buy for me given the write-up. CH is certainly ‘back’ and on fire it seems - my bank account and liver are starting to wince whereas I am very excited for Q4 deliveries and early tasting experiences. The wife can bugger off is she says anything other than “ooh more CH wine…well done again, darling” frankly 
To quote Yoda…“Trained her well I have”. 
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