Carlisle Release Hits

WINE TALK
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And no fuss ordering and allocations…

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All in! [dance-clap.gif]

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i’m almost all in -

Trying to decide how to keep it at a case with R-M coming up [cray.gif]

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Who?!?!?!?

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i have to choose 2 of the 4 - grrrrr
2 papas
1 Gold Mine
1 montafi
1 lingenfelder

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Going light this year.

But gotta have some of this!

The SC at 17.50. Great QPR

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What varietal is that Paul? I am not on the list but have enjoyed a couple of the Zins.

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I might have to skip mine if I plan to get some Copain or R-M

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Zinfandel. The entire production was bottled under screwcap for 2008.

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I got the rejection email last year, but no email at all this year?

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If anyone doesn’t want their full allotment of the SC Zin, I would be interested. That is a good price for a solid zin.

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I received my rejection e-mail but bought some cardiac hill syrah through another retailer.

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Cardiac Hill is not on the Winter release, but it’s my favorite Carlisle by far.

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I see a lot of people make a lot of fuss about this wine and it seems to be reasonably priced, so I put my name on the wait list a few weeks back just in case… but I’ve never had it before.

I know there’s some available at retail if you look for it, but there are so many bottlings, I don’t know where to start.

Does anyone have some recommendations of what to try? Should I look for something close to current release, or something with 5+ years on it? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

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Keep on buying partial allocations, folks. It’ll help me get all the wish-list bottles I’ll be asking for.

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This post makes your signature rather entertaining…

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Of course YMMV…

All the Carlisles that I have had have been nothing but great. As a starter, I would probably seek out an appellation zin or syrah as they are the most readily available and least costly (relatively speaking). As for specific wines that I think are outstanding…Tom Feeney Zins, Two Acres & Papa’s Syrah.

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I’m in for most of my allocation as well. If anyone wants what I have left over…pm me.

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My “No Carlisle for you…just yet.” letter came last week. It was an ok- day. [cry.gif]

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Happily, I have lots of Carlisle in my cellar so I went light this round – I ordered a Montafi Zin, a Papa’s Syrah, a SC Syrah, and a Gold Mine Ranch Zin. My favorite is the Montafi (formely known as Tom Feeney) with at least three years of age. If you’re ordering for the first time, I highly recommend the Montafi – powerful with some elegance, balanced, and very complex.

Although the shipping isn’t cheap they more than balance that out with great pricing on the wines.

Hard to scale back on these but I’m really into Rivers-Marie and Auteur and I’m hoping to get some Rhys and Rochioli SVDs this year.

rOB