Copain mailer out 10/30; FMIII a movie star!!!

WINE TALK
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Copain Wines 2009 Winter Mailer due out October 30th.
MIKE:

We’re writing to give our customers advance notice that our winter release will be available beginning Friday, October 30th.

We’ll be releasing our 2007 Garys’ Vineyard Syrah (250 cases) and 2007 Brosseau Syrah (79 cases). Additionally, we will be re-releasing our 2007 Wentzel Pinot Noir ( 300 cases) in single bottle increments. With additional blocks of Wentzel, Wells held back some of this wine for our library and to release at a later date. He held this wine back to see how it transformed in bottle, as it was the first of the 2007 Pinots to be over vintaged.

Overall the 2007 vintage was stellar. The Pinot Noirs all maintain an elegance, purity of fruit and balance with alcohols at 13.5% or less. Allen Meadows of Burghound.com, just released his latest issue (#36) and gave our 2007 Wentzel 90 points.

With the 07 Syrahs, we backed off on the ripeness and percentage of new wood, which in turn allowed the Syrahs to be true to their terroir.

Lastly, and for the first time, in addition to your 3- bottle allocations, we’ve also put together a winter tasting selection package which will include 2 bottles each of the 07 Garys’, Brosseau and Wentzel.

Allocations for these wines will be available until November 27th, at which point we will fulfill wish list requests and offer any remaining wine to waiting list members. So please mark your calendar and look for an email from us next Friday, October 30th!

With the winter release, we will continue to offer free ground shipping if you purchase 12 or more bottles.

Copain Wines would also like to thank our long time supporter and friend, Frank Murray, for traveling up to Healdsburg to film our winter video podcast with Wells. The podcast will be available for viewing on October 30th.

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Geez you are fast, Dildine. I was just getting ready to post about FMIII’s cinematic exploits, but you beat me to the punch. I can’t wait to see the podcasts now.

For what it is worth, the Wentzel received a Burghound score of 91 points, not 90 as stated in the announcement. I was emailing with the Copain folks earlier this week to discuss an order I plan to make and was told that the 2007 Wentzel PN was going to be re-released. To see if I might want to take advantage of another buying opportunity, I popped one of these for the first time last night and will finish it today. Look for a note on it in the next day or so.

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This is exciting. Congrats, Frank! Can’t wait to check it out!

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Ha. My wife does TV and media so she will likely get a kick out of it but my comments and remarks in the clips are true and in the moment. There’s no smoke and mirrors in doing these, that’s for sure–pour and tape, baby, like doing a TN outloud without the pen and paper.

BTW, the six pack idea that they came up with is bitchen and addresses some of the comments the customer community have provided to them about the 3-pack ordering scenario. This is the last of the 2007s, save the Alder Springs Spirit Rock which is not released yet, so thank god my Copain spending will come to an end for 2009. [swoon.gif]

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Frank – slight thread drift here, but I wonder if you tasted the Roussanne in your recent visits to Copain. I can’t recall what I was thinking when it was released, but I never purchased any. Jennifer says there is still some to be had, and I’m thinking about buying a few. Thanks in advance for any impressions you can offer.