Darren Delmore Wines Offer /// Rare Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir and SLO Coast Biodynamic Pinot Noir /// Discounts & Comp'd Shipping /// Books and Bottles Raffle!

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Dear fellow WineBerserkers, welcome to my second stab at Berserker Day! Thanks to the advice of a few fellow WB’ers, here’s a sweet and action-packed offer on two of my newest wines.

THE WINES:

Delmore 2021 Pinot Noir Bassi Vineyard SLO Coast

One of the most exciting new AVA’s in California is the SLO Coast. Biodynamically farmed Bassi Vineyard was planted in 2001, is 1.2 miles from the ocean (and my mom’s house), with steep slopes of sandstone and high mineral content from the hot sulphur river that flows beneath the landscape. This vineyard designated wine is all free run, mostly from clone 115 that was fully destemmed and fermented in concrete, along with two barrels of Wadenswil clone that was fermented whole cluster. Now with six months of bottle age, some Au Bon Climat Bien Nacido Vineyard character has emerged, and even the juiciness of a Cru Bojo. Well alive with cherry fruit, orange citrus, white pepper, coastal sage, and clocking in at just under 13% alcohol. Vineyard owner Mike Sinor is calling 2021 the vintage of this vineyard’s lifetime. Like all of my wines, I don’t add yeast, ML bacteria, yeast nutrients, enzymes or anything but sulfites. Unfined and Unfiltered too. 191 cases produced. Normal Retail is $44 a bottle.

Delmore 2021 Pinot Noir Deer Ridge Trail Vineyard Santa Cruz Mountains

In early 2021 I got in touch with Prudy “The Grape Whisperer” Foxx, supplier of excellent Pinot Noir and Chardonnay to the likes of Arnot-Roberts, Ceritas, and Lioco, to name a few, and she asked me what kind of site I was looking for. “Coastal Santa Cruz Mountains, Mt. Eden clone if possible, no herbicides, and no quadrilateral cordons.” We looked at Saveria, looked at Lester, then we cut up into the hills above Corralitos and she excitedly showed me this new, steep, redwood forested little site with a creek running through it, planted to Mt. Eden clone Pinot Noir, Pommard, Wadenswil, and some 667. Straight goosebumps. The vineyard looks just like my front label. (Google Maps). So here is the first ever vineyard designated bottling from Deer Ridge Trail (one other winery gets the rest and it goes into a SCM regional bottling). Harvested September 28th, 2021, I bin fermented 1.8 tons of mostly Mt. Eden clone with 25% whole clusters, punched down by hand twice a day and once dry, gravity drained the bins directly into four French oak barrels, 25% new. Alcohol is 13.4% All wild fermentation and wild ML, unfined, unfiltered, with a small dose of sulfites. This was a standout of mine at the recent OC Falltacular. Only 91 cases produced. Normal Retail is $50 a bottle.

ABOUT ME: I was born on the SLO Coast, raised by restaurateurs (my parents opened the first pizzeria in SLO county), and became passionate about wine around 1998. I worked nine wine harvests around the globe, on a quest to make Pinot Noir and Syrah. High points included Hirsch Vineyards from 2007-2009, which was a bootcamp of native, unfined/unfiltered fermentation, and two seasons in the Barossa Valley at Two Hands Wines. I published my harvest journals about these years under the Confessions of a Vagabond Cellarhand trilogy. No, Oprah or Netflix haven’t called. I started my tiny winery in 2017 with Syrah from Stolo Vineyard in Cambria and Pinot Noir from Santa Rita Hills. My family lives in Templeton and I make my wines in Tin City.

Thanks for reading and the consideration! Hope to get lots of these wines in your stems soon…
-Darren

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Darren is an awesome dude, mad respect for him after reading his first book - I was literally glued to the pages, living out the life I was too comfortable to live out myself. I encourage you all to try his wines, AND read his book, for real. (at least the first book…that’s the only one I’ve read thus far - Slave To The Vine - it was AWESOME)

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Thank you Todd! The second book in the trilogy may still be banned in the Barossa…

I have the book but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet, which is odd as I so enjoyed the first!

Everyone, I got to drink these wines at Falltacular and they were top 3 in the Pinot and Syrah and I immediately contacted Darren and purchased them. These are really worth trying!!!

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Appreciated you supporting us Brent. Stoked you liked the new wines!

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I am in for a 6 pack! Thank you

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dont see the will call option? It’s saying $45 shipping? Am I missing something?

Did you find the “will call” option? Can’t seem to figure this out and don’t want to miss out!!

Yes it was the first option once you put in shipping address

Strange. Not showing up for me. I’ll keep trying!

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Thanks Darren. I’ve only tried your syrah before, and am looking forward to the pinot!

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Thanks Leslie! Appreciate you buying some.

Hi Andrew, I just sent you an email. Should work fine on Will Call, if you enter Will Call first.

DD

Cool! Thank you Adam!!

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Darren’s pinots might be the most underrated pinots in California, or should I say never been rated? Need to try the syrah from my last order. Book ain’t bad either :grin:

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Thanks for helping, @Darren_Delmore! Order is in - can’t want to drink them!!

I really enjoyed the 2021 Bassi pinot at the last Falltacular - my quick notes from the event won’t be much help from a tasting note perspective because they just read “Yum!” - but it was one of my top 10 wines of the whole event!

…and if you can get Darren to hook you up with some of his '21 Edna Valley syrah - i cracked a bottle of that last week and it was absolutely delicious in a northern Rhone style!

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Thanks for this last flow of orders WineBerserkers! And I can’t thank you enough Paul Hiyake. See you at Falltacular soon. :sunglasses: