Makes it tough to justify when an email from Cam includes vineyard name, NFO details (including the toast on the barrels recently!), and a number of offers recently at roughly 1/2 to 2/3 of the price of this offer, but the offering from De Negoce boils down to “Send $300. Trust me bro.”
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It says:
Lavish. 14.8% alc..
Quite a lavish description?
I’m not in for any….
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They should legit fire whomever wrote this write up. Unbelievable really.
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Can you fire AI? I guess choose another platform…
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???
Take Cam’s pricing with $19 shipping this is $140/case. Last SB offer (yes this is Semillon) was $99.
$169/case for a really swell Cab other day.
Not any slight on the offer, it’s probably good stuff, might bite if it was $20 lower.
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Lot 624 Oakville 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon posted. $299 / $3600 [$169 / $1800]
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Whoa
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Guesses?
Far Niente or Nickel Martin Stelling?
My mind went to Opus One, but 14.2% seems light.
It’s not a single vineyard.
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The only reason I thought Nickel or Far Neinte was the plural “vineyards” but its bottled as an Oakville Cab. Makes me think they are a multivineyard type winery
I’m with you. More inclined to believe Opus went to multiple outlets to make it seem like they weren’t doing this at all and they aren’t obliged to call the alcohol accurately anyways.
They said some of the best vineyards in the world. Would that be a nod to the Rothschild connection and lock in Opus? Another idea maybe Realm btk. They are up on “mount rushmore” of napa aka prichard hill. And did a multi continental wine with Constallante. Just some other food for thought not disagreeing.
Sharing this here, depending if they purchased tanked/barreled wine with the vineyard purchases this could explain the Opus link, the potential reason to clear it out (acquired, close out) and the multiple vineyards (may also include some extra Opus barrels, who knows… and the mt. reference as well?)
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Seemed like a good way to use my expiring rewards credits.
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If you ordered X80, can see who’s horse gets into the stall first dN or CamX. My bet is dN, they run the backend with precision vs CamX.
Then you could do a “blind tasting” side by side after equal long decants.
Cheers, Tim
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Timothy, ~ are you comparing a dN $299 Lot 624 2023 Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon to the CX $268 Lot 80 2024 Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon?
Uh Huh Boris. Same source likely, different vintages. One is already bottled and one is to be bottled.