Still have one of CH 25’s and they were great.
The 276 should be amazing!
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I double dipped. Went for the full case. Wife goes gaga over good rose champers, she’ll never know the diff and I’ll save huge! I’ll tell her it’s Krug rose!
You have me convinced, in for a sixer. My friend initially thought it was Chandon and said to avoid, but then I read the thread and felt more assured.
Whew! Someone forgot the arena gate key and I was able to step aside and get my order in. Yay!! 
Can someone explain what this working glass thing means? Is there still going to be a large amount of yeast and other stuff in the bottle?
I did a 12 pack also.
There possibly could be. Depends on how they disgorge the bottle, I guess.
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OK YOU ANIMALS I GOT 6
Doesn’t disgorging mean removing the lees? I guess I’m not understanding the significance of “working glass” beyond it not being as nice.
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Pretty sure that is the only significance.
The offer indicates the bottles have been recently disgorged which should take care of the yeast and such in the bottle. I think the ‘working glass’ in this case simply means the wine is bottled in lesser glass for fermentation and ageing before being transferred to glass that has been approved by the Marketing department.
https://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/posting.php?mode=quote&f=1&t=169722&p=3373835#
Assuming this is Richard Peterson, they have a pretty fancy shaped bottle. This will probably be in a normal chardonnay bottle.
It means that this one is an actual shiner, not a fake shiner!
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LOL, post of the day!
That means it will fit in my racks more nicely!
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I don’t know Shawn…where does it say this in the offer…going to need Cameron to chime in here…
The one thing that I’m wondering about is that Lot 276 is not a future release from the winery, the 2013 of the Richard G. Peterson was released last year and is listed as sold out on their site. It’s weird that they have 200 more cases just lying around to bulk out that were not even disgorged yet.
Another victim here of the de Negoce effect.
In for a 6, and I hardly ever drink rose sparkling.
The cynics views is the bottles/barrels weren’t up to standard. Or it’s not them but the clues are pretty specific.
The clues are virtually a lock, price point, review score, etc.
It could be that the bottles were not up to standard, but that’s a huge inventory cost to take to have 200 cases of wine for 7-8 years sitting on the lees if you are not certain about the quality. Most likely you would have cut your losses much sooner in the process.
It could legitimately be that they overproduced that vintage and decided at release time that the market would not be able to sell through the whole production. It seems like the release time somewhat coincides with covid as well, so that could be a factor. If that is the case, $30-ish/bottle is a helluva deal.
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