Just seems odd they’d bulk it out at 15, 20 max when they could get 125! Especially since it sold out. We don’t know when the deal was signed do we? Was disgorged last week so doubt was 2020…
Anyway in for 6 cause I buy it all baby!
The note about the market for glass in the end could mean that perhaps they didn’t have enough of those fancy bottles to bottle this, and that’s why bulked it out.
If they disgorged it in the working glass, it is either done by hand…not an American thing…or they freeze a couple of inches of the inverted bottle, open, remove the frozen plug and re-cork. You cannot use a regular chardonnay bottle to present a sparkling wine. It must have a place to rest the cork and wire it down to keep the cork from shooting out of the pressurized bottle.
I just received my orders of N.201 Russian River Cabernet, and N.250 Rutherford Cabernet. Let me know if any of you guys try a bottle of either of these and what your impressions are!
In for the rose……cases stacking up. I can’t decide whether I suck or I’m awesome.
Deserved. LOL
Just going through my purchases, and 2 cases that I bought with Summer Hold have not shipped. Not complaining since I have a storage issue, but curious if others are seeing this too.
I’m waiting on a 6 pack
Cam mentioned in today’s email that multi-case orders and bottle shop orders on summer hold still have not gone out yet but should go out this week.
“We are largely caught up on shipping single-item 6-packs and 12-bottle cases from our bulk ship operation. Orders with multiple cases in the same order and mixed cases should be largely caught up on this week as well.”
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I’ve got 9 orders showing “Unfulfilled”. They’ll ship soon enough.
Cam, thanks for spacing out the shipments.
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and…take ALL THE TIME YOU NEED 
Yup my closet has become my temporary storage. Guess I need to stop buying wine for a while?
You only have one closest?
Anyone have any guesses on the winemaker for Lot 248?
This Mt. Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon is the passion project of a winemaker for one of Napa Valley’s biggest, most well-regarded wineries. With over 45-years of experience making wines in Napa and Sonoma for pioneering wine brands, very few people making wine today in Napa Valley have more experience. As an estate-grower up on the steep, volcanic slopes of Mt. Veeder for over 30-years, no one knows the regional terroir better.
We have only a couple hundred cases of Lot 248 available today. Its classically-styled, as one would expect from a winemaker who has spent 30+ years making wine from this particular estate vineyard, but, in 2018, Mt. Veeder added a particular richness to its normal, ethereal profile and that is captured in Lot 248 beautifully.
Normally $95/bottle, yours today for just $30/bottle in a six-pack.
Inky in the glass, totally opaque. Offers a ripe bouquet of blueberry, boysenberry and roasted meats haloed by brown sugar spice, clove and iodine-kissed purple flowers. Dark chocolate and licorice join the chorus with air. Rich, plush, supple and seamless on entry with ripe blue and black fruits perfectly attenuated over savory, ultra-fine tannin frame. Exhibits seamless depth and tremendous concentration throughout the long, rich finish. Fantastic!
I am afraid to open the $50 a bottle (De Negoce price) Pritchard Hill. Has anybody opened one yet?
$95 for $30. How the time’s have changed 
Robert Craig Cellars maybe? Time line seems to match and it looks like there are vineyards at Mt Veeder where they have a 2018 Cab that was released right around the $95 price point. Jeb Dunnick had it at a 95 if that is the one.
This is from a bio I found on them - “Robert Craig has been a pioneer in mountain vineyard development for over 30 years. During the 1980s, he directed vineyard and winery development on Mount Veeder. Robert Craig wines debuted in 1992.”
Any other thoughts?
it’s a good guess, as Robert Craig was the guess for a couple early lots (21, 22, 47)
That’s what I was thinking when I read it as well. I’ve got a huge stack of boxes in a storage room with things like “$200 for $30, $150 for $30, and $100 for $20” on them. Maybe the biggest discount days are behind us…
Doesn’t seem like a good fit to me, as Robert Craig owned his own winery, retired and has since died. It doesn’t fit his winemaker or previous winemaker.
Cameron says the wine is from the passion project of the winemaker to several big name wineries.
I thought it sounded like Randle Johnson from Hess Collection, Stag’s Leap and Mayacamas (started there in ‘77). He has the experience with multiple brands in Sonoma and Napa and has he has his own passion project (Calafia), but unless something major changed from ‘17 to ‘18 nothing matches on any of the wines I saw from them.