@chipgreen@ScottW58 If that’s what it is, then there’s a West LA split happening assuming the price is good. One of the few exceptions I’ll make to the WBM.
@klezman@MarkDaSpark@Winedavid49
I also thought of Vincent Arroyo but don’t remember them ever being here or on WW. Forgot about the Bridge whatever wines, never bought them.
I also thought of McClean Vineyards, ha! Still have some of those delicious Syrahs and just drank my only 2011 Viognier of theirs over the holidays. Too bad they rode off into the sunset on their Harleys. I remember there was some leftover juice and we were disappointed that WD didn’t make a bulk buy and turn it into a Woot Cellars wine!
Visited Chehalem Mountain wineries on our honeymoon. Must have missed Adea and Lemelson but we enjoyed Raptor Ridge. Hawks’ View Cellars was a favorite and was previously on WW but IIRC, WD said they changed ownership. Would be thrilled to see them make a comeback or even better, some Patricia Green? Or Ponzi?
@Winedavid49 Oh good, then I’m currently sipping tonight’s offer as I thought. The toddler says it smells like peaches, lime, and milk.
Also, nice clue.
@danandlisa@Winedavid49 Bubbly Müller-Thurgau? Does that exist? That’d be super interesting. Sparkling PB and PG do both exist and would be fun to see here also.
Yeah, not so much. You’d think that as the last remaining PSith, I’d get at least one or more PS labrats, but @Arianawcc seems to keep missing sending them to me!
@MarkDaSpark Meh, the difficulty level of a clue is entirely in the eye of the beholder. Unlike most of the ones I’ve correctly guessed, this one required a bit of research. But most of them I don’t even try…toddler craves attention.
@karenhynes@klezman@MarkDaSpark
I had the St. Bernard part but couldn’t reconcile it with what I assumed was a Petaluma Gap reference. I kept trying to figure out how Keller or Kendric or Pech Merle related to a St. Bernard.
Silly human thought it was Santa Rita Hills AVA, thus the Rookie movie (rose petals by nuns to St. Rita) reference. Although @winedavid49 didn’t catch the wrong AVA either.
He was probably overjoyed at pushing it off on me!
@karenhynes@klezman@MarkDaSpark@Winedavid49
Ahh, Dennis Quaid? I did not see that one. But I know that Petaluma Gap is one of the newest AVAs so that to me was the “rookie” part and rose “petals” sealed the deal.
One of the consistent subcategories that helps us find great QPR wines are from folks who are predominantly growers but who also make their own wine. This is a great example.
@Winedavid49 This send me right to the Tragically Hip song called At The Hundredth Meridian. I doubt there’s a wine that would fit them, but it’d be awesome.
Fantesca Estate ‘La Petite Soeur’ Red, Napa Valley?
Import?
DOMAINE DE LA PETITE SOEUR
Settled at St Aubin de Luigné, in the heart of the Layon angevin (Angers area), Adrien de Mello at first travelled around the world.
Argh! Just when you throw a softball, I forget to check the clue!
I remember the Qupe Magnum offer, that it was last of his wines. Also, Kewpie (doll) = Qupe sound. (remember that because of the “Support your Local Gunfighter” movie with James Garner.) Aargh!
@InFrom@Winedavid49
While Harvest Moon makes total sense, I don’t know how anyone can see “I’m still in love with you” and skip right over the Reverend himself to get to Neil Young…
@MarkDaSpark@Winedavid49 I keep thinking about other PDX wineries and maybe Boedecker? Division Wines would be great too. I’m not as familiar with the SEA urban winery scene.
But why the mention of Oakland? Something in SF that i don’t know about? We had the ‘Noiro’ PN a long while back that was made on Treasure Island.
@chipgreen@rjquillin@Winedavid49 I was thinking in the opposite direction, if there was a Slow Wine or something of the sort. Or a Wait Up! or Relax! winery.
@Winedavid49 Yes, they are (90 pointers), and you saved me a long drive, and $$$ as well. Waterbrook’s one of my local favorites, and I’m always grateful when it’s delivered for free (because VMP).
@chipgreen@MarkDaSpark@Winedavid49 So far I’ve learned that there’s an episode of The Mentalist that featured a winery in the plot, however I did not turn up a Mentalist Winery.
My first woot was Monticello Wines Presidential Red. Iron Horse has been served in the White House, we haven’t seen them in a while. That would be a Sterling guess.
“As a recognized leader in reusable packaging, ORBIS became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Menasha Corporation.” Menasha is one of the oldest family owned corporations, founded by Elisha Smith.
There’s also 2 IT related, and one or two charity related businesses!
@karenhynes@klezman@rjquillin@Winedavid49 It’s the least I can do since the group here has been so supportive of me and my brand. I would think others would feel the same - and if not, CAN THEM!!!
@losthighwayz@MarkDaSpark People love the Frivolo. We used to beg WD to get it on here and Noceto wouldn’t do it. I think the offer is excellent. But my bar to purchase right now is ridiculously high.
@klezman@MarkDaSpark disagree. Look at sales by state. If I recall the last sangio offer sold out quickly. So did the sangio and mixed reds on WW. Just sayin’
I was trying to remember which Haut it might be, but forgot that DOC is Italian, not French (Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée/Protégée (AOC/AOP)) in the short time I had to guess.
@MarkDaSpark@Winedavid49 what Sparky said, or maybe a cinsault from Bechthold Vineyard.
Unless, of course, we’re going all in on once and future, bedrock, or even Turley!
Volstad Act (Prohibition) took effect 100 years ago.
Maybe another Virage offer? (Virage founder Emily Richer discovered wine in culinary school at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone. Greystone being one of the pre-Prohibition wineries involved with CWA.)
Or since the link mentions a Lanza selling a lot of wine, perhaps the Lanza Family’s Wooden Valley Winery?
A clever businessman, by the name of Horatio Lanza, saw the months leading up to Prohibition as an opportunity and purchased 1.3 million gallons (the equivalent of 6 million bottles of wine) from the CWA and sold it at a high profit margin.
@chipgreen@MarkDaSpark@rjq@Winedavid49
Hosting? I have more than enough bottles to do the hosting! I’m saving a bottle of Gratitude for the first girls’ night that’s not on Zoom!
@danandlisa@klezman@Winedavid49
I’d like to see a Harvest Moon Estate Red bubbly. I thought we had it on WW back in the day or am I thinking of something else?
@Winedavid49 Damn, I was really hoping this was an oblique reference to Once & Future or, hope against hope, a Ravenswood library offer. But I don’t think Joel has any reason to come over here, sadly.
So so glad to have this winery back on. Hard to get. Hard man to negotiate with. So not the type of deals you’ve seeing lately. But man the wines can be other worldly. Didn’t have to travel too far to keep knocking on their door.
@Winedavid49 Ty Caton? Aren’t all his vineyards now in Moon Mountain? If so, I just hope it’s not the EnTycement…or maybe I hope it is so that I don’t spend money
@MarkDaSpark@WCCWineGirl Yeah, but it was the first thing with a musical instrument I could think of. I also don’t remember exactly where WD’s place is.
@radiolysis I had a fleeting thought of something like that, and no doubt that’s the connection, but I kind of like believing in the Shakespeare angle. It’s almost as unintuitive a hint as the actual one WD thought up!
@Winedavid49
I know playback singers. I grew up listening to the famous playback singers of yesteryear, but I am at a loss for the clue. Here are some of the most famous if this helps anyone else: Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bonsle, Kishore Kumar, Mohammad Rafi. There are probably more recent singers, but these four go down in Bollywood history.
@Mark_L@MarkDaSpark You know the wine, it’s your favourite, you had advance notice, and you can’t buy/drink? Or it’s a beloved winery now out of business?
@karenhynes@rjquillin@Winedavid49 “Wagon Wheel” had me checking to see whether Darius Rucker has his own line of wine, but it turns out he doesn’t. He has his own brand of whiskey. So I got nothin’.
@rjquillin@Winedavid49 But is Paso Robles underrated? Some of the most acclaimed and expensive wines come from there. Alongside a lot of dreck, to be sure.
Lake County could do it…Clark has the singing but not the “boss” thing going. A Two Jakes offer or a Cab Franc would work, too.
@Winedavid49
It’s not 100% clear to me that the watch name refers to the second label wine even though the offer will surely be second label. How about Tudor’s second label, Nacina?
@MarkDaSpark@radiolysis@Winedavid49
GO has had some good pricing on a number of the Acumen CS blends. They need a decant, but are pretty tasty given a chance.
For some reason I recall once a 3 brand offer with Canoe Ridge in it. Although I may have made that up. So im going with a 3 brand offer from precept wine. If Canoe Ridge is one then I am not sure what the others might be. Could be Alder ridge or Huntsman or Chocolate Shop or even Battle creek.
I knew about him as an adolescent since I subscribed to Fate magazine for at least a few years and he was featured fairly regularly, along with anything related to ESP, UFOs, aliens, ghosts, astral projection, etc. I was fascinated by that kind of thing but eventually outgrew it in favor of sports, girls and partying.
Didn’t remember until a search on Uri showed his last name. Seemed to remember WD had used his name in a clue once before. Added Casemates to search … and voilà.
Metal Bender Sauv Blanc last time. Their site showed their red blend as a library, so figured it was the most likely.
@dirtdoctor I think you cracked it… There’s a Ben Hogan winery. He won more than 2 Opens though. But: according to my (wiki-)encylopedic knowledge, he won two in one year.
@InFrom
Haha, I think I shared the origin of the name with you previously and it was in fact for an online golf league, playing Links LS in the late 90s with gamers from around the World through the Microsoft Gaming Zone. Those were the days… I just stumbled across my chipping and putting charts (aka cheat sheets) the other day!
My late night TV commercial lawyers will be contacting you as well for your usage of “onesta”. Just because you didn’t capitalize it doesn’t negate the emotional distress of repeating my previous guess!
The Pacific Coast Ranges (officially gazetted as the Pacific Mountain System in the United States but referred to as the Pacific Coast Ranges), are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the West Coast of North America from Alaska south to Northern and Central Mexico
Yeah, that narrows it right down!
Kunde returns?
But I’ll go with @karenhynes and Anne Amie.
Our tasting room hosts breathtaking views of our vineyards and the Pacific Coast Range.
@Winedavid49 Are we going to see a wine from Humboldt County? Briceland, perhaps??? (Wishful thinking, I suspect.)
Maybe something from San Diego County? Colorado? Virginia?
@KitMarlot@klezman@Winedavid49@MarkDaSpark I wasn’t around for the original showdowns, but i knew a little of the history when Lost brought it up during the last Sunce deal in Sep 2018. It’s a bummer when bridges are burned, regardless of the quality of the juice.
@KitMarlot@klezman@radiolysis@Winedavid49 It always felt like a cultural issue, I don’t think the owners were born in the US and there was some misinterpretation of comments which snowballed a bit out of control several times.
@Winedavid49 Could we be getting a Swiss wine?! Seems highly unlikely, but that’d be amazing. So little of it makes it to the USA and it’s by and large excellent.
@karenhynes@Winedavid49
Seems like the logical choice but since you’ve already guessed it, I will throw caution to the wind and add some wishful thinking for a St. Supery Virtu offer.
@klezman@Winedavid49
Too obvious?
I have a very vague recollection of someone else mentioning working with St Laurent. Can’t for the life of me recall who it was…
@karenhynes@MarkDaSpark@Winedavid49 We haven’t seen Muscardini in ages. I’d be shocked. So aside from Ty, where else has she worked or have the alumni from those places gone?
Or is this easy clue week?
@klezman@karenhynes@MarkDaSpark
Doesn’t Ty share a tasting room with Muscardini?
EDIT: Posted at the same time… almost. I see that they are no longer sharing.
She was working for Ty in 2008 when we went on the inaugural RPM Magical History Tour, but helping with Muscardini too. I think about 1 or 2 years before the tasting room separation, she started working for Muscardini only.
@MarkDaSpark@rjquillin@Winedavid49 “Alone” it suggests it’s been sold before, but packaged with other varietals. Otherwise, the “alone” is meaningless in that sentence. Isn’t it? He would just have put the period after “varietal” and been done with it.
@karenhynes@klezman@Winedavid49
FWIW, I am not normally a fan of bourbon barrel aged wines (although I do enjoy some of the bourbon barrel aged beers) but @Boatman72 shared a bottle of Buck Shack with @mrn1, @pjmartin and myself and we were all surprised at how good it was.
I’m not suggesting that the Earth moved but it was a solid bottle.
No idea if this offer will be the bourbon barrel aged, just throwing that out there…
@Boatman72@karenhynes@klezman@mrn1@pjmartin@Winedavid49
Disappointed that this is a kitchen sink blend instead of the Cab. For the same price. Probably a pass for me despite wanting to celebrate the newfound ability to redirect UPS wine packages to access points such as my local CVS!
@klezman@MarkDaSpark@rjquillin@Winedavid49
If you check the Wish List thread, you’ll see that it is definitely not Gruet. Other than that… ?
Sadly, although my rat bottle was successfully delivered to my local CVS today, when I showed up a half hour ago to pick it up there was a sign on the door saying that they closed early tonight.
I will pick it up tomorrow and post some notes once I get a chance to chill it and sip it.
FYI, Barry Sterling, father of Joy, and founder of Iron Horse passed away this weekend in his sleep. Condolences to the Sterling and Iron Horse families.
@klezman@Winedavid49 Wineries go what they gotta do to sell product when the normal markets dry up. This could be a nice pick-up by WD.
Now, if only Alice would send be bottles like this instead of wiskey casks.
@InFrom@klezman@Winedavid49
Me thinks WD used a reference to “Rushmore” on a clue a while back for a Noceto offer. I think we ended up interpreting “Rushmore” to refer to the stalwarts of our previous home which shall not be named. Noceto, Pedroncelli, Scott, Peter, etc.
@Winedavid49
Was hoping for a little more help, but…
Assuming this is a movie reference, the only time they were even outside was at the beginning and end when they got dropped off and picked up from detention. There was the end scene with Judd Nelson raising his fist as he walked across the football field to the tune of “Don’t You Forget About Me” but there was no knoll in the background.
Reaching, the movie was filmed in Des Plaines, IL and while I could not find reference to an actual knoll nearby, a synonym for knoll is ridge and there is a “Higher Ridge” neighborhood in the area. There is also a “Higher Ridge” winery but it is in Lincoln, NE so, umm, no.
Therefore, I will reach for the stars and guess Ridge Vineyards.
@chipgreen@rjquillin
Were you tempted to put that in the Pedroncelli thread on that cab that clocked in at 16.1 ABV?
2016 Cabernet Sauvignon, Three Vineyards, Dry Creek Valley.
@chipgreen@rjquillin@ScottW58 16.1% for a Pedroncelli Cab? Wow.
I’ll be honest - if it’s Pedroncelli I’m not really looking at specs because I know the producer. Alcohol isn’t everything…
OK, I’ll try to put this clue out there.
The plows for this wine worked hillsides a bit further south compared to the last time this foreign winery appeared here.
Crap, i kept forgetting. it has nothing to do with the Altier Chardonnay we dove into today…But on to the clue. We were just negotiating the woot cell…err Casemates cellars holiday label juice over lunch. not sure the blend “haggle” will play out, but this all Cab medley offer is a first with this long time partner.
@MarkDaSpark@Winedavid49
That is a great (and very topical) answer. Just to throw something else out there, how about…
O’nesta Cinsault or “Cinsaut” if you prefer.
@Winedavid49 “Just Another California brand? Au Contraire! Tailor Made Au Contraire wines are tailor-made for those who love to live life to the fullest.” (That’s my guess.)
@InFrom@Winedavid49
One that doesn’t ship to Ohio, I know that! Silly buzz-kill legislators. Bummer, I was really hoping for something from Swilly and the Hill of Graceland vineyard.
@Winedavid49 We getting an actual field blend of Zin/Carignane? Maybe something from Buchignani Ranch? Or if we’re really lucky, Ridge Mazzoni Home Ranch? Anything from Bedrock or Once & Future or Ridge would qualify as well…but that would be one hell of a blockbuster Monday offer!
hello from finally clear skied Sonoma. Fun couple of offers on the last couple. time to mix it up. There’s no shrimping from this familiar french label.
@Winedavid49
I’m going to go with my “weird guess”…
Is it time for some Vampire Vineyards? Or is that not due for another week or so??
Their address is “…Unit K…”
@klezman@Winedavid49 Thought 200 might be a latitude but they dont go that high. No idea what it could reference. Altitude? Street number? Thats all I got.
Chipgreen has it with the Mendoza Line, where no amount of defensive skill can offset a poor offensive contribution. If the clue was .085 your talking Hank Aguirre, Tigers fans would love that clue!
@msten@Winedavid49
Carlos Santana of the Indians almost crept over the Mendoza line in the last game of this abbreviated season. He went 3 for 3 to raise his average to .199.
I thought about them too, but forgot their name for their Syrah! Was going to look for “great elevation” in other languages, but got interrupted. La Altura might have triggered my memory since it’s almost “Alturas”. Doh!
@Winedavid49 That “nouveau” brings me to Henry Fessy Fleurie “Château des Labourons” Beaujolais Cru. But the “nouveau favorite” makes me wonder if it could be a Louis Latour. Not that I recall seeing either on the Wish List.
@InFrom@msten@rjquillin
Dan Tudor retired the Radog label years ago. Replaced it with Nacina and I don’t think he is even using that anymore. His most recent 2nd label bottling was the Highlands Project.
@karenhynes@Winedavid49 Seems to fit the clue, but that seems like an unusual winery to have here.
Dry Creek Vineyard actually has bridges going in. So does…Iron Horse.
@Winedavid49 thought we might get a Kosta- Browne, off a Steve Costas/ Brown sugar clue. Reminiscent of an old Lawyer Malloy/Paul O’Neill clue for a Miloy O’Neill wine on some old site years ago.
@klezman@Winedavid49
Is that the same as Epiphany Cellars in Santa Maria? One of my very first wine.woots was an “Epiphany Spring Trio”. I remember how much we enjoyed the 2006 Inspiration White from that offer.
@MarkDaSpark@Twich22 Y’all aren’t guessing much!
I think Peterson is Mendocino, which is part of the North Coast AVA.
I think I’ll stop there, since I’ve got a Big Bottle of this Beauty & Beast of a Beverage on my table.
@MarkDaSpark@Winedavid49 I know. I would jump if it was just the Gewurztaminer. Please Dave, give us an offering of Gewurtaminer. It is so hard to find a good one.
@danandlisa@rjquillin@Winedavid49 Yeah, serious hurt that would be. But two Friday offers in a row from Ishi Pishi would be amazing. It’s one of my favourite vineyards these days between Briceland and Cabot.
@CorTot@Winedavid49 I must recuse myself from this matter. My Labrat report will be submitted in the morning (as I retire before the offering goes active). TYVM.
@Winedavid49
I’m going to go a different route because I’m bored and eating cheesecake straight from the pan…though I love Chip’s IH guess…
Brooks (thank you) Note Winery
@CorTot@danandlisa@Winedavid49 Oy, that’d hurt, but only when the credit card bill came.
I wonder if she has any more 2003/2004 like from the old days!
@chipgreen@karenhynes@Winedavid49
Good call. WD is helping on shipping logistics for de Négoce.
Perhaps a CaseMates branded offer?
Oh Tannenbaum?
There have been a number of PS offers to pull from.
@rjquillin Those CT notes are none too encouraging, at least for Cabs ## 30 & 43. The Zin got meh reviews on CT, though if it’s indeed a Ped it’s neither surprising nor alarming to see comments that it needs a few years. Cab #17 is intriguing, both based on CT and what I could glean from WB. PN #24 sounds promising based on CT. Cab #25 might be promising with age, from what I see on CT.
I didn’t get beyond the #17 in my perusal of the WB thread. But based on what my quick reading turned up, not feeling the urge to jump on this one. That could change, though…
@InFrom
Gotta keep in mind all these have been very recently bottled. I’m not used to barrel samples, but likely these are the closest many will get to them.
@chipgreen@MarkDaSpark This way sparky will be right!
I hope it’s Cooper, actually. That’d be great. Although I don’t have room, so maybe I should hope for St. Julien cream sherry or something like that where I have no interest. (Or am I mixing them up with the Finger Lakes winery I’m forgetting the name of?)
Concannon has a nice PS Port and a fortified White, as does Wente.
Thought someone else would mention Beaulieu (Wente sold grapes to them) … they would have been my 4th choice, and I didn’t want to hog all the good ones. Should have known it would be them.
@karenhynes@Winedavid49
Yes, Sterling! I just remembered he was a silversmith, duh. Deleted my obscure (yet topical) “Freedom Bubbles” guess to say “Sterling” but you beat me to it! I should have chosen “Edit” instead, haha.
@Winedavid49 Helios?
Or does Cathy consult at another winery you’ve snagged? Or some old York Creek find its way to you in large format?
Or Karen’s guess
@karenhynes@rjquillin@Winedavid49 if it was the Q block or something for that price is be in without thinking. The regular Pinot I’m not as sure about, what with not needing magnums and such. Or more wine at all.
@Winedavid49
I’m awful at guessing the offers, but I just wanted to say I hope you’re having a wonderful Christmas and enjoying time with family/loved ones. Thanks for all that you do!!!
I don’t know about the clue, but I can think about what I thought the best deals of the year were:
Kings estate is always good value
Mentida was some of the best qpr I can remember
Winesmith is always amazing value
Y. Rousseau musketeer was really good.
The Louis latour red was awesome but I doubt there are any bottles left.
Two Jake’s is always great
Those would be my picks. But almost everything on this site is a good deal so…
@Winedavid49 Yeah, looked at Wiki about that Elvis special and I have no idea. But I would like to mention that this weekend marked the end of my supply of Amrita, and my .375s of Noceto Sangio. Just sayin.
@InFrom@Winedavid49
Total long shot here…
There’s a song on the Elvis Christmas Special album titled “If Every Day Was Like Christmas”. The Christmas offers have historically been bubbles (Gruet, Iron Horse), the recent still Iron Horse, or Corison back at the old site. I can’t think of what some of the older ones may have been. All are pretty unlikely…but a girl can dream!!!
@msten@Winedavid49 There was also the Waterbrook 90+ point reserve cab and merlot deal. Very easily could be the deal being referred to. Either that or the substance duo. Both are excellent washington wineries and wines.
Also there was a 2013 2014 cougar crest reserve syrah deal. Another good washington option.
just realized im a full 24 hours late to the party
Days of the week stop meaning as much when working from home every day and everything around you is shut down.
@MarkDaSpark@Winedavid49 All fine assumptions!
I didn’t even mean to suggest that you should start it, Sparky, although I see how you could have read it that way.
North by Northwest! And Happy New Year!
@InFrom And here I was fantasizing for something awesome to begin the new year/decade…
HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!
@InFrom @rjquillin my wife thinks these are awesome. To each his/her own.
POPSOCKETS! ROAD ROCKETS! SONNY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
@CorTot @InFrom @rjquillin
Well, the first one of 2019 was the Martellotto “Rosso di Sera” Red Blend on Wed, Jan 2nd, 2019
2018 ended with Twisted Oak’s *%#&@! “Potty Mouth” on Mon, Dec 31st.
And Casemates launched in 2018 with Little Vineyards. So, a spectacular 2018 … with a Mehdiocre 2019?
Happy New Year!
@winedavid49
Clue?
Patron saint of French fries?
@Winedavid49
Are we feeling international tonight?
@Winedavid49
Hmmm…I see.
Ok…a couple of guesses.
Santa Teresa Winery?
Sonoma Coast Vineyards?
@Winedavid49
I see what you did there.
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Better than mine!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Yeah, I saw that, too.
My wild goose chase started here:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/aleteia.org/2017/10/02/did-saint-teresa-invent-french-fries/amp/
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Yes, saw that too, which led me to winemaker Theresa Heredia of Gary Farrell Winery.
But figured it wouldn’t be that!
Aren’t we due a new clue?
@Winedavid49 Tick Tock
Sorry, was at kids soccer game.
It was cold on that knoll!
@Winedavid49. And tonight’s excuse?
@MarkDaSpark Oh brother (s) !
How does this look?
Old one:
@MarkDaSpark Center grape image needs to be larger, like in the original.
@rjquillin
Does it? Does it?
@MarkDaSpark absolutely!
@rjquillin
@winedavid49
Monday is near…
in case you missed it, the clue is a response to Sparky.
oh brother(s)!
@Winedavid49 Poor placement.
You need to contact your agent and re-negotiate.
That was a good movie however.
@Winedavid49
Ok, I’ll start.
How about Domenico?
Or Anselmo?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Better than mine. Caraccioli Cellars?
Or did WD score from Daou?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Or Buoncristiani Family Winery?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Or maybe brother(s) and b-i-l?
Sangiacomo Vineyards (Sonoma) or Beaux Frères Wine (OR)?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Divum?
@karenhynes @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
I was also thinking Buoncristiani… but will guess Gundlach Bundschu.
@chipgreen @karenhynes @Winedavid49
3rd time was the charm!
🥳🥳
@Winedavid49 Time is a ticking away…
hah, i thought i already gave it! Thanks, when you get over this age, like the winery, you need friends to give you reminders…
@Winedavid49
Pedroncelli Friends?
Happy Thursday night. I’d give a clue, but I’m presently banned, Outlawed…
@Winedavid49
Prohibido?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 good call.
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
/giphy ding-ding-ding
clue? winery name kinda sounds like a hair piece to be honest…
@Winedavid49
Qupe?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Yeah, seems like an obvious call. Unless there’s a Fig Wines or something else that rhymes with wig.
@karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49
We did just have some of their 3L for the 10 Days. So more than likely.
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Of course.
We should start tracking the winners and award them a mixed case of the winning guesses at the end of the year.
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
Someone owes me a lot of wine!
@karenhynes @rjquillin how about a beanie ?!?
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
I might actually have storage space for a beanie!
Sunday night Clue?
Getting back to one of the O.G.'z
@Winedavid49
At least a couple to choose from.
Scott Harvey 1869 would be nice, or
Noceto OGP Zinfandel
are both ones we’ve seen before.
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
Scott’s 1869 was the first thing to come to mind…
Well I for one would like to buy some 1869! It’s been awhile.
@ScottW58
I would even drive to the UPS hub for it…
@chipgreen @ScottW58 If that’s what it is, then there’s a West LA split happening assuming the price is good. One of the few exceptions I’ll make to the WBM.
The irony is I shouldn’t now use the z as a clue… old habits…
@Winedavid49
In that case, it must be Laura Michael
@Winedavid49 meh
@rjquillin @Winedavid49 Excellent, the WBM can remain intact!
So @Winedavid49 goes from only one Z to zzzzzzzzzzzzz?
/giphy sleeping
Sorry, life got in the way (not a clue).
quick clue? van Gogh Grande !
@Winedavid49 Vincent Arroyo? Maybe the real stuff rather than the, what’s it called, Bridge 1941 or something?
@Winedavid49
Girasole Vineyards
@klezman @Winedavid49
Aargh! I should have remembered them! I think you’ve got it!
@klezman @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
I also thought of Vincent Arroyo but don’t remember them ever being here or on WW. Forgot about the Bridge whatever wines, never bought them.
I also thought of McClean Vineyards, ha! Still have some of those delicious Syrahs and just drank my only 2011 Viognier of theirs over the holidays. Too bad they rode off into the sunset on their Harleys. I remember there was some leftover juice and we were disappointed that WD didn’t make a bulk buy and turn it into a Woot Cellars wine!
EDIT to add that I have never had a Girasole Vineyards wine but I absolutely loved 2008 Enos Vineyards Girasole from the old site. Apparently they are a Brack Mountain Wine Company label.
@klezman @Winedavid49
From Vincent Arroyo homepage:
“Our wines, Nothin’ petite about it” ,
@chipgreen @klezman @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
I ratted the '10 November of '18, so yup, been here before.
@chipgreen @klezman @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Looks like this is their 4th offer here…and apparently I bought the 2010 vintage of this cab. Hmmm…wonder where those are…
@karenhynes @klezman @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49
My memory just ain’t what it used to be…
@chipgreen @karenhynes @klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Same here! IIRC, WD used the Van Gogh reference before for them. The grande part made me think of a large painting reference.
@winedavid49
/giphy time-flies-by
clue?
Yamhill-Carlton and Chehalem Mouintain, yumm…
@Winedavid49
Anne Amie?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Way to go Karen!!
@Winedavid49 So many to choose from but my favorites are Adea and Raptor Ridge. Lemelson is not bad either.
Visited Chehalem Mountain wineries on our honeymoon. Must have missed Adea and Lemelson but we enjoyed Raptor Ridge. Hawks’ View Cellars was a favorite and was previously on WW but IIRC, WD said they changed ownership. Would be thrilled to see them make a comeback or even better, some Patricia Green? Or Ponzi?
@chipgreen Would love Patricia Green as well. So sad she is gone.
Happy Friday. If I wasn’t watching soccer I might’ve just played black jack near me!
@Winedavid49 Isn’t there a Graton Cellars?
That means the bottle that arrived today is not tonight’s offer, which is good to know.
@klezman @Winedavid49
I think it Graton Ridge?
Or, Red Car is on Graton Road…
@klezman @Winedavid49
Any hints, if it’s tonight’s offer?
I assume @winedavid49 is watching the 49ers win?
🥳🥳
how 'bout them 9er’s!
i’m so confident about this deal i’m like a soldier rattling.
@Winedavid49
A return of Vino D’Angelo Shake Ridge Zinfandel?
On the old site
Or Shake Ridge Ranch?
@Winedavid49 Oh good, then I’m currently sipping tonight’s offer as I thought. The toddler says it smells like peaches, lime, and milk.
Also, nice clue.
@klezman @Winedavid49
Saber Brut Rose
@chipgreen @klezman @Winedavid49
That makes sense!
@Winedavid49 I dont mind rose’s but can we please have something different?
Would love to see a Pinot Blanc or Gris or even a case of Müller.
@danandlisa @Winedavid49 Bubbly Müller-Thurgau? Does that exist? That’d be super interesting. Sparkling PB and PG do both exist and would be fun to see here also.
@klezman @Winedavid49 Sounds good to me.
@danandlisa @klezman @Winedavid49
Never had sparkling PB but thoroughly enjoyed Clark’s sparkling PG.
howdy,
clue? downtown S.B. staple i’m told.
@Winedavid49
Happy Canyon?
@Winedavid49 Hitching Post?
@Winedavid49
Wishful thinking… Fiddlehead?
@Winedavid49
Tercero?
@Winedavid49
CORE or Martellotto
@Winedavid49 Another thought - Fess Parker.
@Winedavid49
Cebada!?
@Winedavid49
Do tasting rooms count?
Sanford Santa Rita Hills Pinot Noir - on Wine.Woot
I see Fiddlehead is actually in Lompoc. How about Jamie Slone Wines?
that was a tough one for me to find a decent clue…
@Winedavid49
I thought of them because they have new owners (and I used to buy when passing through SB), but didn’t follow thru.
It’s been an exhausting day! At Disneyland …
Feet are screaming!
@Winedavid49. Really?
A Disney villain goes up a little mount and can’t find parking! (As the 2nd clue … your first was still good, but needed a bit more.)
Jafar – located on Montecito (little mount) – Jaffurs has a very little lot (2 or 3 cars, maybe!), and street parking is tough.
Or maybe just Disney villain as 2nd with the next 2 as followup?
Clue you say? 10.2 from us, not much less as the crow flies.
@Winedavid49 Blackbird?
@Winedavid49
3 Wine Cellars?
(They did Adequate Gift)
@Winedavid49
Or more Attune?
@Winedavid49
Kunde?
@hscottk @Winedavid49
Their Aerena label?
@Winedavid49
Artesa?
How far away will tonight’s offer be, @winedavid49?
Clue? Sugar foe, and an Arizona snake.
@Winedavid49
Two Jake’s of Diamond(back)?
@karenhynes
This makes more sense.
But wouldn’t we have heard from Clark?
@rjquillin
I think he’s gotten better at not letting the cat out of the bag.
@Winedavid49
Coppola Diamond series (perhaps their Reserve PS Dessert wine?) perhaps?
One could hope!
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Nice call! And it is PS!
@karenhynes @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 My Favorite!
@karenhynes @rjquillin Clearly. I got an email exactly at midnight.
@InFrom @karenhynes WD must have done a bit of arm twisting.
@karenhynes @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
You keeping the whole case to yourself?
Sauvage?
Waiting on @winedavid49 …
Tonight i can’t help but think about Kobe driving to the hoop. RIP.
So, clue? Ron or Vin.
@Winedavid49 Diesel from Burgundy?!
@klezman @Winedavid49
…or Diesel Farms (Italy)
…or Diesel Pinotage, South Africa?
Is it international day?
@Winedavid49 I’ll have nothing to do with that clue, unless it involves some Vin coming my way.
@Winedavid49
Baker Lane Vineyards Syrah?
They’ve had previous offers here.
Ron and Vin Baker were basketball players.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Good call!!!
@winedavid49
this one was worth repeating (different vintage). Get acclimated this time.
@Winedavid49
Attune?
@winedavid49
clue? i wonder how they can still call it that. probably cause they’ve been around a long time. Grandfathered in.
@Winedavid49 Pedroncelli Port? Fenestra Port? Somebody else’s Port?
Just don’t tell me it’s California “Champagne” or “Burgundy”!
@Winedavid49
It’s been over a year, so
Pedroncelli Port & Wine Lover’s Chocolate
Edit: Darn it! Took too long looking up California Champagne possibilites! But I called the chocolate combo!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 @klezman
Pedroncelli Port was my first thought too, count me in!
@Winedavid49 Thank you, thank you, thank you. Just in time. XXOO
@winedavid49
I won’t regale you with a bunch of yarns. Tonight‘s offer is a nod to A popular trend.
@Winedavid49 No time to research this, but is this another one of those Bourbon barrel aged wines? Yuck
@Winedavid49
Red Stitch? Seems a little pricey for CM but that’s all I can come up with related to a popular trend that might involve yarn.
@klezman @Winedavid49
Well played.
Really? Really @winedavid49?
@MarkDaSpark You really expect he’s not watching the 49’ers?
@rjquillin. There are commercials! Wait, nevermind.
But there was a halftime show!
good game!
loving the new Disney+. wonder if his films had an impact on Mando.
@Winedavid49
Ceja Vineyards?
@Winedavid49
Ooh, ooh! Oberon Wines. More Chardonnay?
@Winedavid49 … so, not a clue?
@MarkDaSpark Lucas
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Phew, good one.
@Winedavid49. Ah. The Mando threw me off.
I saw the actor playing The Mandalorian had also played Oberyn Martell, and Oberon wines had been on Casemates before.
I’d also thought about Walt Disney (Disney +).
I’m nominating Sparky to give the clue (since he is a rat).
woohoo! i’m free…
@Winedavid49 @MarkDeSpark
tick-tock
tick-tock
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@rjquillin LOL
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
LOL!!! Good grief, Sparky’s mind is more convoluted than WD’s.
I’ll start the guessing, sans clue, with Petite Sirah!
@karenhynes @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Concannon!
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
Just wanted to see what it was like to wait until after 5:30pm!
@karenhynes @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Yeah, not so much. You’d think that as the last remaining PSith, I’d get at least one or more PS labrats, but @Arianawcc seems to keep missing sending them to me!
@karenhynes @rjquillin @Winedavid49
You giving everyone a chance? Clue’s been up over an hour!
@MarkDaSpark @rjquillin I deserve that. Well, any clue??
I guess we will get the clue an hour after it starts and the rat report an hour before it closes
@ScottW58
@MarkDaSpark LOL!
@ScottW58 That would be the video edition with Tim.
2nd part is clue to AVA …
If a Barryhund glanced through a Looking Glass would they see a fine dog? Or a Rookie with rose petals?
Too tough? I thought it might be too easy!
Doh! Nevermind on the AVA clue. Oldtimer’s must be setting in. Could have sworn it was that name. But nooooo.
So just ignore the last sentence about the Rookie.
@MarkDaSpark haha. This clue thing is not easy!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
II’d be tempted to help and mod it out, but more fun to leave it to twist.
@MarkDaSpark Bernardus
@klezman
/giphy winner-winner-chicken-dinner
@klezman. So … easy or moderate or tough clue?
@klezman @MarkDaSpark
Easier after you eliminated the last sentence.
@MarkDaSpark Meh, the difficulty level of a clue is entirely in the eye of the beholder. Unlike most of the ones I’ve correctly guessed, this one required a bit of research. But most of them I don’t even try…toddler craves attention.
@karenhynes @klezman @MarkDaSpark
I had the St. Bernard part but couldn’t reconcile it with what I assumed was a Petaluma Gap reference. I kept trying to figure out how Keller or Kendric or Pech Merle related to a St. Bernard.
@chipgreen @karenhynes @klezman
Silly human thought it was Santa Rita Hills AVA, thus the Rookie movie (rose petals by nuns to St. Rita) reference. Although @winedavid49 didn’t catch the wrong AVA either.
He was probably overjoyed at pushing it off on me!
@karenhynes @klezman @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Ahh, Dennis Quaid? I did not see that one. But I know that Petaluma Gap is one of the newest AVAs so that to me was the “rookie” part and rose “petals” sealed the deal.
@chipgreen @karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49
Why I capitalized the Rookie part, to indicate the movie, not a brand new AVA.
@karenhynes @klezman @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Curse your subtal nuances!
@chipgreen @karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49
Clue?
Fullest extent. City.
@Winedavid49
Boomtown by Dusted Valley Wines?
@Winedavid49 Good one!
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
The latest online Game!
@winedavid49 We can haz clue?
One of the consistent subcategories that helps us find great QPR wines are from folks who are predominantly growers but who also make their own wine. This is a great example.
@Winedavid49
Well, that narrows it … not!
Pedroncelli? Lange Twins? Cooper Vineyards? Dusi?
@Winedavid49
Peterson Winery? Dry Creek?
@Winedavid49
Pedroncelli?
@Winedavid49
Dick Handal?
Denier-Handal
@Winedavid49
Gundalach Bundschu?
@MarkDaSpark Pedroncelli makes more of their own wine with their estate than selling grapes.
@Winedavid49
J Dusi it is!
This estate grown wine fits this principle.
@Winedavid49 Someone’s going to guess Pedroncelli, may as well be me. Winning the Oscar for Least Original Guess.
@Winedavid49
Annie Amie
second clue. it adds up to 100.
@Winedavid49 Pareto’s Estate
Also, we call that a rule, not a principle
Clue?
Ry Cooder!
@Winedavid49
Prodigal Wines?
@Winedavid49 Probably wrong, but am leaving to participate in a water board meeting. Field Recordings winery.
@Winedavid49
Paris Valley Road?
@Winedavid49 This send me right to the Tragically Hip song called At The Hundredth Meridian. I doubt there’s a wine that would fit them, but it’d be awesome.
MEALS! DEALS! EELS! AWESOME!
@danandlisa
Water boarding is still a thing?
also, Queens of the stone age.
@Winedavid49
Underground Wine Project Mr Pink?
@Winedavid49
Annie Amie? (Little Sister)
@Winedavid49
Or a return of Wallis Family Estate Propriatary Red Little Sister Diamond Mountain?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Agree on the song, but not the winery. Not that I have anything better.
@MarkDaSpark think import
@Winedavid49
In that case,
Haden Fig Pinot Noir?
(The Haden triplets have contributed to QOTSA and had their first album produced by Cooder.)
NM … not import.
@Winedavid49
Name import or wine?
Fantesca Estate ‘La Petite Soeur’ Red, Napa Valley?
Import?
DOMAINE DE LA PETITE SOEUR
Settled at St Aubin de Luigné, in the heart of the Layon angevin (Angers area), Adrien de Mello at first travelled around the world.
@MarkDaSpark given it to Sparky!
@Winedavid49
There were a lot of “Sisters” … Middle, Two, Three, Four, McBride, De Andres … it was tough!
But great clues!
That would be fantastic! I think Buena Vista or mandolin?
@markdaspark
@Winedavid49 Tick Tock
When you have a quality winery wanting to work for you, you make sure you keep asking for more offers.
First name: Short
Last name: Hannah’s dad (middle)
@Winedavid49
Davey & Browne?
Assuming WD meant last, not middle
Something from Martin Ray. Just had Pinot offer, so I’ll say it’s a cab
@winedavid49 @dirtdoctor. Or this.
@dirtdoctor
Good call!
@dirtdoctor Beauty!
@winedavid49
The country of Origin is not Italy., this still reminds me of their motorcycles.
@Winedavid49 The only Vespa wine I can find is Italian! (Yes, I know Vespas aren’t motorcycles…)
@Winedavid49
Virage?
Or Giornata ?
@Winedavid49
Sneaky!
@Winedavid49 Doffo winery, specific Motoduffo
@danandlisa
Except they’re in Temecula, and it’s rare.
Gazzi wines had a connection to our old friend Scott Harvey. Moto Guzzi Motorcycles.
@msten Oh, that’d be amazing, but I thought they were long gone.
@klezman @msten
Pretty sure they are.
Happy Sunday!
Clue? Veni Vidi…
@Winedavid49
Duppy Conqueror Rosé
@pseudogourmet98
Nope! We had this last night at the SoCal gathering. So no guesses from me.
@Winedavid49
I guess hardly anybody knows their Plutarch anymore!
Conqueror from Horse Heaven Hills?
@msten. Nope!
@winedavid49
This is wine farm. Stand by. Driving to high school Basketball playoffs.
Not part of the clue but GO DRAGONS
I bet Kobe called Le Bron this… capiche?
@Winedavid49
Pedroncelli? Friends Red/White?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 That sounds right
@Winedavid49
Amici Cellars?
@Winedavid49
Ooh, ooh! You scored the big one?
Carlo Rossi’s Paisano !!
@Winedavid49
Um, Goat =/= Lion.
Kobe on Lebron
I like Karen’s guess but just to throw something else out there, how about Fratelli Perata?
@chipgreen I was just eyeing that place, following the Fratelli lead.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lebron+lion+logo&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=FXSTywOIatvu7M%3A%2CpPCb_iXiJUs-pM%2C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQ_BjC4i_TBJeU3LzNzw9Iojz6I4A&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj134TT_NznAhWEJjQIHcrkADYQ9QEwBnoECAoQMg#imgrc=FXSTywOIatvu7M:
@Winedavid49
Ha, ha, ha … no. You’d lose that bet.
Now if you’d asked if Kobe called himself that …
Kobe as lion
@MarkDaSpark i still think that was a good clue. but let’s move on.
Clue?
Well doll, this wine brand has been making the rounds out there in the interwebs. But i haven’t seen this sweet deal.
@Winedavid49 North by Northwest Dessert Riesling?
@canestfr @Winedavid49 That “doll” thing, how does that associate with NxNW?
A dessert Riesling would be nice though…
@Winedavid49
Argh! Just when you throw a softball, I forget to check the clue!
I remember the Qupe Magnum offer, that it was last of his wines. Also, Kewpie (doll) = Qupe sound. (remember that because of the “Support your Local Gunfighter” movie with James Garner.) Aargh!
@canestfr @Winedavid49 Ah, Qupé, touché!
@winedavid49
Tick, tock!
Happy Friday!
Clue? One of the tried and trues. Deep roots (albeit pretzeled)
@Winedavid49 Twisted Oak
@hscottk @Winedavid49
If so, this could be a pricey weekend.
@hscottk @rjquillin @Winedavid49 Yeah, I think that’s it. Dang. I needed to get out of this month without any more purchases.
Happy Sunday.
Found this off the beaten path Winery from the San Francisco chronicle list of top wines. Smart House!
@Winedavid49
Wise Villa
@chefjess @Winedavid49 absolutely
@Winedavid49
Well, Smart House movie on Disney featured the Cooper family. And Cooper Vineyards was a category winner in 2020 & 2018. And was on the 2018 tour.
So, Cooper Vineyards.
@Winedavid49
Also referred to as “This place is a treasure, off the beaten path”. In several places online.
Ah well, WD has liked @chefjess 's Wise Villa. Actually better. Since I would’ve been buying all the Cooper Vineyards!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
How about a Treasure Island winery, then…
Conduit? Can’t have a smart house without some conduit, amIright?
@chefjess
Nice call!
College cellars
@winedavid49.
/giphy tick-tock
Clue?
one of our solid winery partners with a new varietal. Because i’m still in love with you…
@Winedavid49 Hey, Harvest Moon again? Now to check out his new varietal…
@Winedavid49 He has a dry sparkling Zin? Mmm. “New varietal” meaning new to us here? He also has PN and gewurz, alongside his familiar Zin.
Oh, I see he’s got a Malbec as well. OK, that’ll be my prediction. But my hope is for the gewurz, or one of his sparklers.
@InFrom @Winedavid49
While Harvest Moon makes total sense, I don’t know how anyone can see “I’m still in love with you” and skip right over the Reverend himself to get to Neil Young…
@chipgreen @Winedavid49 No knock on Reverend Al, just remembering a go-to of WD’s.
@InFrom
Ding, ding, ding! Both winery AND varietal!
@InFrom
I know
I blame the clue giver more than the guesser, ha!
And really it’s just an excuse to hype one of my all-time faves…
@chipgreen @InFrom ohhh yea … don’t you know…all time fav
@winedavid49
/giphy Cobwebs
this vineyard specific wine is made from a vineyard that could also be called “Frazier’s Pew”.
@Winedavid49 Kelsey Bench AVA?
@Winedavid49
Aha! Beckstoffer Dr. Crane Vineyard!
Although it was spelled “Frasier”, no “z”.
Clue? one old stand by and one new amigo.
@Winedavid49
Pedroncelli Friends
@winedavid49
@MarkDaSpark
Sorry, early hoops game tonight.
Clue? really good qpr wine with always a favorite landscape label. I think you will approve
@Winedavid49
Acquiesce?
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
Good qpr? I think not, but good juice.
@Winedavid49 Kunde?
@Winedavid49
Two Jakes offer?
@Winedavid49
Wait, wait… Apriori?!?
(Just noticed that only the first part of approve was italicized)
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
Was wondering that too, but not really a landscape on the label.
Edit: Good call!
Clue?
Wait wait don’t tell me!
@Winedavid49
Prohibido (maybe something other than a Rosè?
Or Rufugio?
Or another Secrets de Mar?
@Winedavid49 The NPR News Quiz has wine?!?! That’s the best idea ever!
On the panel
@Winedavid49 Poundstone PN?
@Winedavid49
RoxyAnn Winery?
@Winedavid49
Rocca Family Vineyards?
@InFrom @Winedavid49
Well, you have the WD sign of Approval!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
/giphy on a roll
But not a Karen-sized roll. She’s the champ. Just a mini-roll.
@winedavid49
One of the better urban wineries and we ain’t talking Oakland or the ghetto.
@Winedavid49
Donkey and Goat?
@Winedavid49
Will drive to UPS hub for Broc Cellars!
@Winedavid49
Another offer from Gersing Cellars ?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 i can dream. if it’s the Gersing Syrah i’m the first in the pool.
@radiolysis @Winedavid49
I was thinking Syrah or a white (SB and Viognier) offer.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 I keep thinking about other PDX wineries and maybe Boedecker? Division Wines would be great too. I’m not as familiar with the SEA urban winery scene.
But why the mention of Oakland? Something in SF that i don’t know about? We had the ‘Noiro’ PN a long while back that was made on Treasure Island.
clue? alright already, what’s the rush?!!
@Winedavid49
Another Urgency?
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
Agree, most likely an Urgency offer
@chipgreen @rjquillin @Winedavid49 I was thinking in the opposite direction, if there was a Slow Wine or something of the sort. Or a Wait Up! or Relax! winery.
/youtube JA6id4–BDg
@winedavid49
/giphy countdown
Clue? ya know, i bet revetments are used for this. maybe even a casemate. (remind me to tell a story about revetments).
@Winedavid49 Castles and moats? Or something less awesome like a steep terraced vineyard?
POKER! JOKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME!
@Winedavid49
Barricade Winery - Cab or Red Blend?
@Winedavid49
Ooh, ooh! Smoking Gun Cab!
@Winedavid49
Sneaky!
@winedavid49
@MarkDaSpark wait, what??
@Winedavid49
Sorry, wrong reminder! Doh!
Consider it an early reminder for tomorrow’s clue.
/giphy Homer-Doh!
@MarkDaSpark this just made my night!
@MarkDaSpark
@chipgreen
I posted last night, remember?
i’m all messed up!
wonder if wally and the beav would like this value wine?
@Winedavid49
Cleaver Red Blend? (Renwood)
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
@winedavid49
weird day today. but i think we’ll be ok.
clue today?
not the label, but the hand of god i bet you’ll guess the region.
@Winedavid49 Another round of Godspeed?
Or perhaps something from Santa Ynez?
@Winedavid49
Argentina?
@Winedavid49
Herencia Trabajo Argentinian Cabernet Sauvignon?
Or from La Mascota Vineyards?
@Winedavid49
I would say Durigutti, but they were up last month.
happy friday. i hope everyone is home consuming and whittling down wine inventory!
clue?
Pink Floyd Lead
Finding Memo voice
(switch the “S”)
@Winedavid49
Waterbrook
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
@chipgreen @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 One can hope!
@chipgreen couple of 90 pointers
@Winedavid49 Yes, they are (90 pointers), and you saved me a long drive, and $$$ as well. Waterbrook’s one of my local favorites, and I’m always grateful when it’s delivered for free (because VMP).
@danandlisa
Sorry, forgot to include I’m labratting them! 🥳🥳
@winedavid49
Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
/giphy mouse-ran-up-the-clock
@MarkDaSpark i really could use one of those… clue? well, Uri Geller is suppose.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Suppose to… what?
@chipgreen @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 So far I’ve learned that there’s an episode of The Mentalist that featured a winery in the plot, however I did not turn up a Mentalist Winery.
I didn’t try Bent Spoon Winery…
@InFrom @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Nor is there a Telekinetic winery
@Winedavid49
Sleight of Hand Cellars?
@chipgreen Much better picture!
@InFrom
I had to relieve /giphy of its duties to get a proper image.
@Winedavid49
Sleight of Hand Cellars, The Illusionist, Columbia Valley Red
@Winedavid49
I see what you did there!
@winedavid49
hope everyone is safe and sound during this unprecedented time for the country and the world.
searching for a clue for tonight. really happy with the QPR of his offer. It’s not, but if it were Wellington’s off spring, it’d REALLY sell well.
@Winedavid49
Alicante/Noir de Noirs?
David Noyes?
@Winedavid49
Meeker?
Denier-Handal finally happen?
So many to choose from.
think first name.
@Winedavid49
Peterson?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Was just going to say that as well.
@karenhynes @pseudogourmet98 @Winedavid49 Ohhh, Peter’s son. Good clue!
AKA wonderful Columbia (or royal)
@Winedavid49
Sneaky!
We’ve seen Gard here before. Royal slope of Columbia Valley
Or something “blue“
@msten
Like Sapphire Hill?
Is it Friday already? @winedavid49
/giphy quarantine-clock
@MarkDaSpark
@MarkDaSpark just looked at this one a little closer. LOL
@Winedavid49 @karenhynes
@karenhynes @MarkDaSpark WD89!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
This is just what my worn out brain needed tonight.
Good evening friends. Tonight’s offer, a vertical, will really set itself apart from others. pumped about this get.
@Winedavid49
Foppiano?
Hey folks. we’re a sucker for (and am generally pretty good at securing) estate wines. this one? These tools will be among the last to be shut down.
@Winedavid49 Syrah from Cardiac Hill?
Howdy, hope everyone is safe and sound.
We have alot of faith in the strength of this winemaker. another really solid offer here.
@Winedavid49 Faith Zin from McCay?
@Winedavid49
A Scott Harvey offer with Forte?
@Winedavid49 Farmstrong?
@Winedavid49 Rock Wall Wine Co?
@Winedavid49
Godspeed?
@klezman @Winedavid49
Future dreamer…
@Winedavid49
Fortitude Cab by Provenance
Brick & Mortar?
Hi folks. clue tonight?
maybe they should call me winedavid45
@Winedavid49
Corley Family Monticello Vineyards Jefferson cuvee
or
William Harrison Winery & Vineyards Rutherford Red
@Winedavid49
I would be shocked to see a Trump Winery offer but I will guess it anyway…
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
I was wondering too! But chickened out saying it.
@Winedavid49
Or, since Trump doesn’t drink, a return of
Navarro Vineyards grape juice?
@chipgreen @Winedavid49 I was thinking the same. Highly unlikely, but the comments sure would be entertaining!
@Winedavid49
Sneaky! I looked for wineries having their 45th anniversary and wineries opened in 1975, but forgot to look for wines!
My first woot was Monticello Wines Presidential Red. Iron Horse has been served in the White House, we haven’t seen them in a while. That would be a Sterling guess.
@winedavid49
/giphy vacation-in-place-waiting
today’s offer is a tough act to follow! should succeed with this Lawrence partnership.
@Winedavid49
Gård Vintners?
Or other winery using Conner Lee Vineyard grapes.
@Winedavid49
Wautoma Wines or Four Feathers Wine Estates (other half of Lawrence partnership)?
@Winedavid49
Or possibly a return of J. Bookwalter with their Conner-Lee Vineyard Conflict Red?
Evening folks.
My daughter’s slang would call this wine a “wrecking shop” red.
@Winedavid49 Vandal Combat Rouge?
@DanNC @Winedavid49
Probably.
Or a Robert Sinskey Vineyards Pinot Noir or Cab Franc Vandal Vineyard ?
@winedavid49
/giphy shelter-in-place
@MarkDaSpark howdy folks. pardon the delay. been a bit busy. clue? This should be Italian for Organic!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Palo Alto Organico, but that seems too obvious
@Winedavid49
Vudu dudu?
I believe it might be the 2nd labrat bottle from the last SoCal gathering in Temecula. So I won’t be guessing.
@DanNC @Winedavid49
I believe “should be” are the operative words.
@DanNC @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
If it’s Italian for something, it must be a Pedroncelli, no?
@DanNC @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 go ahead and guess, I was the rat Monday and I couldn’t get the clue.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 I miss Kyle
Clue tonight? Meh.
another clue? owner of Orbis.
@Winedavid49
Which Orbis?
Smith Story Wine Cellars
Or Charles Smith’s Wines of Substance?
Both have been on Casemates
(Orbis is Bureau van Dijk’s flagship company database.)
“also” on the database sentence.
“As a recognized leader in reusable packaging, ORBIS became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Menasha Corporation.” Menasha is one of the oldest family owned corporations, founded by Elisha Smith.
There’s also 2 IT related, and one or two charity related businesses!
@Winedavid49
Ok, others related to Orbis …
Van Dyk Family Wines (Bureau van Dijk)
Row Eleven Wine Company (Brad Miller)
Roth Estate Winery (Thomas Roth)
But I still think it’s one of my first 2!
@Winedavid49
How about a followup to QPR?
QPR II? QPRer? QPRest?
@Winedavid49 Well played!
@Winedavid49
Ah … Orbis Payment Services … it never showed, even with Meh added.
@winedavid49
/giphy cabin-fever
i’m a comin’. happy Friday folks. Clue?
after this launch, it won’t be like Mudville.
Hopefully something to do with Joy, i.e. Iron Horse
@canestfr
Probably. But WD sometimes pulls a fast one and it’s not the obvious. So in case it isn’t Iron Horse …
Joy Cellars
@Winedavid49 I don’t know the connection, but Larry has been around lately so maybe it’s a Tercero offer…
@klezman @Winedavid49 my guess exactly
@klezman @Winedavid49
Larry’s been hanging around pretty consistently for a few months, at least.
@karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49 @tercerowines
And we appreciate that he has, even if he does use twist-offs.
@klezman @Winedavid49 maybe i just like you guys and gals. . .
@karenhynes @klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49 don’t bd on screw caps, you cork soakers
@klezman @tercerowines we like you too Larry, but we should do another deal.
@klezman @rjquillin @tercerowines @Winedavid49
I think it’s great that Larry has a presence here. I wish more of the winemakers would.
@karenhynes @rjquillin @tercerowines @Winedavid49 You’re absolutely right Karen!
@karenhynes @klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49 It’s the least I can do since the group here has been so supportive of me and my brand. I would think others would feel the same - and if not, CAN THEM!!!
Hello Hello,
clue? has anyone seen the movie " The Master" ?
@Winedavid49
Scott Harvey?
@Winedavid49
@Winedavid49
2014 Quell Pinot Noir?
@Winedavid49
Is it going to sell out?
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
Seems to be a trend!
@Winedavid49
a dojo and a chicken;
I can’t even imagine.
@Winedavid49 black chicken zin?
@Winedavid49
Lone Madrone The Dodd red blend
@Winedavid49
Sneaky!
Clue?
This rare red and white combo is from an all timer. Frivolity awaits!
@Winedavid49 I’d say Friends Red and Friends White, the frivolity fits. But those aren’t rare. Maybe the combo is rare? Trying to stretch to fit.
@Winedavid49
Appears we posted at the same time.
@InFrom @Winedavid49 Unless it’s Frivolo plus Normale…
@InFrom @Winedavid49 Frivolo from Noceto?
@klezman @Winedavid49 Looks like a winner. Unless WD has suddenly taken to liking every post.
@Winedavid49
Isn’t it time for a clue?
@pseudogourmet98 I think that was it!
@ejrunion @pseudogourmet98 They posted simultaneously.
Opened a Sangiovese split from last offer. Autobuy
All I can say is WD better step up his game. Lots of compelling offers out there right now…
@losthighwayz
I would say he did!
@MarkDaSpark how/when? Not the Frivolo for sure!
@losthighwayz @MarkDaSpark People love the Frivolo. We used to beg WD to get it on here and Noceto wouldn’t do it. I think the offer is excellent. But my bar to purchase right now is ridiculously high.
@losthighwayz
Any Noceto offer! And bite your tongue about Frivolo!
Mmmmmmm, Frivolo. 
@klezman @MarkDaSpark disagree. Look at sales by state. If I recall the last sangio offer sold out quickly. So did the sangio and mixed reds on WW. Just sayin’
@klezman @losthighwayz @MarkDaSpark we don’t really drink much sweet wine so it was instant pass for us because of the frivolo.
@winedavid49
/giphy sipping-in-place
howdy, Friday 24 hour sales, all bets are off. may even find something french. sound like the beezkness hot doc?
@Winedavid49
Bees Knees Chenin Blanc/Viognier
@Winedavid49
Or Domaine of the Bees ‘Les Genoux’ (French for ‘The Knees’)
Clearly, I need to work on my French wine clues.
@Winedavid49
Mais oui! Bay Zack =/= Bees Knees.
I was trying to remember which Haut it might be, but forgot that DOC is Italian, not French (Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée/Protégée (AOC/AOP)) in the short time I had to guess.
But,
/giphy Lost-in-Translation
@Winedavid49
howdy, clue?
Lauren McGough would approve of this winery. and one of my favorite zins from Mongolia to Sonoma Country.
@Winedavid49
Eagle Ridge Zinfandel?
@Winedavid49
I would say Eagle Creek Vineyards Zinfandel, but they’re in Lodi. Past Sonoma.
But Eagle Rock Vineyards Prodigy Zin is from Sonoma!
Hawley?
@karenhynes. Ding, ding, ding!
Hawley Falconry
Something from Howell Mountain?
@losthighwayz wishful thinking lol
@winedavid49 I know it is Easter, but tick tock.
Agh, i’m blaming it on my oldest (who lives in the city) finally getting to come home and hang out with us! fun day!
outside in our vineyard, you see one row being mowed and one row getting tilled to create this. Happy Easter my friends.
@Winedavid49
Or maybe a quote from this trilogy?
Twenty Rows SB
Random guess…Hedges Family
i wonder if this next winery liked Daveed the best in his role.
@Winedavid49
Thomas Winery? Oregon Pinot Noir
@chefjess @Winedavid49 he also played Johan on Black•ish. (Johan Vineyards)
@chefjess @radiolysis @Winedavid49 So Oregon Pinot Noir, then?
@Winedavid49
Monticello Vineyards
@chefjess @Winedavid49
Thomas winery I LOL’d
@Winedavid49
Hamilton Russell Vineyards or Hamilton Cellars?
@Winedavid49
Or a return of Saxon-Brown?
@MarkDaSpark nice work
@MarkDaSpark keep an eye.
@ScottW58 @Winedavid49
I tried. Happy to provide a little entertainment
@winedavid49
We can haz clue?
/giphy quarantine-bonkers
@MarkDaSpark all i know is you’d have to go back over a hundred years to see this quick a sell out.
@Winedavid49
Scott Harvey’s 1869 Zinfandel
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 what Sparky said, or maybe a cinsault from Bechthold Vineyard.
Unless, of course, we’re going all in on once and future, bedrock, or even Turley!
@Winedavid49
Well, with no “Like” from WD, some other Old Vine?
InZinerator doesn’t qualify for OV, but it did sell out fast.
Not Hawley, their OV doesn’t qualify for SS yet.
Leoni?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Maybe not an old vine zin since we just had one a week ago?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Volstad Act (Prohibition) took effect 100 years ago.
Maybe another Virage offer? (Virage founder Emily Richer discovered wine in culinary school at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone. Greystone being one of the pre-Prohibition wineries involved with CWA.)
What Really Happened During Prohibition
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Or since the link mentions a Lanza selling a lot of wine, perhaps the Lanza Family’s Wooden Valley Winery?
@MarkDaSpark size matters
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Mags of 1869?
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
@chipgreen @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Haha! I’m safe…I have absolutely no need for mags of anything.
@chipgreen You get the honorary deerstalker on this one!
@chipgreen @InFrom
Hey, I called it first! And there was no size indicated in the initial clue!
@karenhynes
Yes, these are the magnums you want!
@chipgreen @karenhynes @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
You’re not hosting when this madness is over???!
@MarkDaSpark @winedavid49
Nope, nope, nope. You can’t get me with that size matters line. I’m not falling for it.
@chipgreen @MarkDaSpark @rjq @Winedavid49
Hosting? I have more than enough bottles to do the hosting! I’m saving a bottle of Gratitude for the first girls’ night that’s not on Zoom!
@rjq signed in on a second account to buy extras?
@klezman @rjq It’s not every day we see the doppelganger!
@InFrom @klezman
how did my username get truncated?
@klezman @rjquillin
So, I wonder how @winedavid49 is going to followup?
/giphy quarantine-sold-out
Let’s celebrate!
@Winedavid49
Iron Horse bubbly
@chefjess @Winedavid49
That would certainly do it.
@Winedavid49
Well, if it isn’t IH, or Gruet, or Harvest Moon sparkling …
Maybe Furthermore Wines Blanc de Noir Sparkling Wine or Saber Single Vineyard ?
@Winedavid49
Or twisting it from sparkling, there’s a song called “Lets Celebrate” by Skyy.
So maybe Sky Vineyards (Mt. Veeder)?
@Winedavid49
Working with Sky, one synonym is heaven
So maybe an offer from a Horse Heaven Hills AVA winery … like
Canoe Ridge Vineyard Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Horse Heaven Hills?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
You babysitting again with too much time on your hands?
@Winedavid49 Gruet mixed pack
@danandlisa Yeah, that seems more likely than Iron Horse given the full weekend offer.
@klezman @ Winedavid49 I would love to see some Adelsheim sparkling sometime.
@danandlisa @klezman @Winedavid49
I’d like to see a Harvest Moon Estate Red bubbly. I thought we had it on WW back in the day or am I thinking of something else?
@chefjess @danandlisa @klezman yea i think we did! i’m on the job!
@danandlisa @klezman Adelsheim eh? that is noted!
@klezman @Winedavid49 Adelsheim’s bubbly is delicious. Usually sells out. They make a rose and regular.
@chefjess @danandlisa @klezman @Winedavid49
2013 Harvest Moon Estate & Winery Pinot Noir Sparkling
8/15/2016
http://wine.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=6900849
6/16/2015
http://wine.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=6343196
Of course the links will now be broken…
@chefjess @danandlisa @klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Harvest Moon Sparkling Pinot Noir 3-Pack 6/15
Harvest Moon Sparkling Pinot Noir 3-Pack 8/16
@catcoland @chefjess @danandlisa @klezman @Winedavid49
Well done.
I need to learn that search technique.
@catcoland @chefjess @danandlisa @klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49 My trip down memory lane is showing me we had a sparkling Syrah from Bonny Doon back in 1/15. Oh, and I see the Harvest Moon, 6/15.
@danandlisa it’s time.
@Winedavid49 Don’t tease me.
@Winedavid49 Thank you.
@winedavid49
Another tough act to follow. But we’ve been in the Ecommerce deal business before it was trendy. We got this. Clue?
A preferred guitar and my favorite Olympic boxer (besides Leon).
Hope you liked the Gruet. We have a special relationship.
WD39
@Winedavid49
Martin Ray?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 That’s the direction I was going.
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
/youtube JDSPwexlyTo
@winedavid49
Clue?
Well, this is not Typesetter on Spring Street, if you know what i mean.
@Winedavid49 Damn, I was really hoping this was an oblique reference to Once & Future or, hope against hope, a Ravenswood library offer. But I don’t think Joel has any reason to come over here, sadly.
@Winedavid49
Evidently not!
@Winedavid49
Bookwalter?
@Winedavid49
Vinum Cellars?
@chefjess @Winedavid49
Nice call.
So so glad to have this winery back on. Hard to get. Hard man to negotiate with. So not the type of deals you’ve seeing lately. But man the wines can be other worldly. Didn’t have to travel too far to keep knocking on their door.
@Winedavid49 Ty Caton? Aren’t all his vineyards now in Moon Mountain? If so, I just hope it’s not the EnTycement…or maybe I hope it is so that I don’t spend money
@Winedavid49
Little Vineyards! Band blend!
I’m super excited for this upcoming offer. Isn’t there a musical instrument embedded somewhere?
@WCCWineGirl Duelling clues?! Now you’re making me think Mandolina Toccata.
The 2004 Toccata Riserva was one of my favourite old site purchases.
@WCCWineGirl
Little Vineyards Band Blend!
Remember, WD said it’s not far. Mandolina is way south.
@MarkDaSpark @WCCWineGirl Yeah, but it was the first thing with a musical instrument I could think of. I also don’t remember exactly where WD’s place is.
@klezman
LOL. Sonoma area. 3 locations to choose: office, warehouse, and home!
So far everyone is running on empty!
@Winedavid49
Oooh! Saxon Brown?
@Winedavid49
I want to say Schug, but not sure there’s a musical instrument.
Same with Saxon Brown.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Schug was my first thought, too, but it didn’t really fit the instrument clue.
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Gotta be Saxon Brown as you first put. Running on empty is a Jackson Brown song.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
…and he has that embedded sax(ophone).
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
And he did say to keep an eye out
Stillman Brown?
@hscottk stillman lives on the central coast.
@winedavid49 We are waiting…
@danandlisa ancora di piu QPR
@danandlisa @Winedavid49 It’s Italian for QPR!!!
@danandlisa @InFrom @Winedavid49
Must be Pedroncelli!
@danandlisa @InFrom @pseudogourmet98 @Winedavid49
Drinking a Ped CF as I wait.
@InFrom @pseudogourmet98 @rjquillin @Winedavid49 all of my Ped is long gone.
@danandlisa @InFrom @pseudogourmet98 @Winedavid49 These are best forgotten for a handful of years, as they then reward handsomely a bit of patience.
@winedavid49
tough act to follow. Good thing this one changes things up. add this one to your portfolio.
@Winedavid49
J. Bookwalter Notebook 6NV?
@Winedavid49
Acquiesce Winery?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Oh, I doubt it, but goddammit that would have me break my WBM.
@Winedavid49 Anything with an art reference can I just go right to David Lance Goines and then Once & Future or Bedrock (or Ravenswood, I guess)?
@Winedavid49
Miro?
@klezman @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Just got the 15 bottle club shipment from Sue.
@klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Is anyone else wondering about the clue?
ah, i meant to italicize or bold the “Folio” portion of the word. my bad.
@Winedavid49 So… Folio–>Shakespeare–>Oberon?
@InFrom Oberon is part of the Folio Fine Wine group
@radiolysis I had a fleeting thought of something like that, and no doubt that’s the connection, but I kind of like believing in the Shakespeare angle. It’s almost as unintuitive a hint as the actual one WD thought up!
@InFrom Sometimes i wonder if we love the hints more than the deal.
@radiolysis LOL. I try to get the hints, and try not to get the deals! (Not always successful in either case.)
@WineDavid49
/giphy tick tock
@klezman - thanks!
Sorry, started to remind WD, but dinner took precedence!
crap. i came in to give a clue like 4 times then spaced…
my bad.
um, Irish bird domicile?
@Winedavid49
Onesta?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Interesting. I just ordered my Turley Bechtholdt Cinsault today…
(I mean I definitely did not. WBM in full effect. Obviously.)
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Please make it so. I am out of the Cinsault.
@danandlisa @karenhynes @Winedavid49 You’ve been getting your wishes lately!
@InFrom @karenhynes @Winedavid49 thank you Dave!!! We love this wine.
at a better price even! please tell your friends!
@Winedavid49 Really. I will buy as much as you let me. One of my favorites. Can I buy more than 2?
Clue? what the heck is a playback singer? and a famous one at that?
@Winedavid49
I know playback singers. I grew up listening to the famous playback singers of yesteryear, but I am at a loss for the clue. Here are some of the most famous if this helps anyone else: Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bonsle, Kishore Kumar, Mohammad Rafi. There are probably more recent singers, but these four go down in Bollywood history.
@chefjess on the right track, this one is closer age to my oldest daughter.
@chefjess @Winedavid49 Isn’t there a 32-something winery? That would fit. I’m too lazy to go look…
She was on the show star singer apparently
@Winedavid49
Well,
So Buena Vista or Passaggio Winery?
Kalpana Raghavendar was on the show, and a Kalpana R. took pictures at each
@MarkDaSpark so, i think i might have stretched this one out. Daughter Annie was a clue too.
Hopefully, @winedavid49 won’t stretch this clue out!
/giphy stretch-Armstrong
@MarkDaSpark Sadly, I must recuse myself from tonight’s guessing. (I’ll explain once the offer goes live.)
@Mark_L. Must mean you’re a labrat! Congrats!
@MarkDaSpark If that was the case, would it be sad?
@Mark_L @MarkDaSpark You know the wine, it’s your favourite, you had advance notice, and you can’t buy/drink? Or it’s a beloved winery now out of business?
ah yes, all is right with the world with the next offer (talk about a stretch). but it helps.
Start Trek Dilithium, Dodger all star
@Winedavid49 “Start” Trek?
@Winedavid49 Crystal Puig?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 I believe that was an non-deliberate typo. You can safely ignore it.
@Winedavid49 Hook & Ladder?
@Winedavid49
Crystal Hill Vineyard?
@Winedavid49
Cmdr Scott, Steve Garvey
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 @karenhynes
looks like KH was too busy with her girls zoom to score on this one.
Tough act to follow. But the show must go on!
this wine is not produced (thankfully) in a town north of Sacramento. little too hot.
@Winedavid49 @karenhynes
“liking” the clue.
You know something?
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
I’ll say this much…it’s definitely in my wagon wheel house. I just rocked though 3/4 of the bottle. Yee Haw, dude.
@karenhynes @rjquillin @Winedavid49 “Wagon Wheel” had me checking to see whether Darius Rucker has his own line of wine, but it turns out he doesn’t. He has his own brand of whiskey. So I got nothin’.
@InFrom @rjquillin @Winedavid49 it’s definitely not whiskey.
@winedavid49
It was not the margarita’s fault.
Next wine? Just such a friend to WCC. Fantastic explorative wines from an underrated region at great QPR.
Reminds me of Springsteen.
@DrWorm doesn’t celebrate Mother’s Day because they think it’s a Hallmark Holiday.
@Winedavid49
Twisted Oak?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Gotta be El Jefe
@Winedavid49
Stilman?
But Clark also fits this description, quite well.
@rjquillin @Winedavid49 But is Paso Robles underrated? Some of the most acclaimed and expensive wines come from there. Alongside a lot of dreck, to be sure.
Lake County could do it…Clark has the singing but not the “boss” thing going. A Two Jakes offer or a Cab Franc would work, too.
@klezman @Winedavid49 @karenhynes
But it’s El Jefe ftw.
Karen does it again.
Not sure how @winedavid49 is going to top Twisted Oak, but it might include a Rubber Chicken!
/giphy rubber-chicken
so glad to have Jeff back on.
next up? we’ll be traveling north, crossing some rivers to come up with some nice spicy selections.
@Winedavid49 What, El Dorado County Gewurtztraminer? Is that even a thing? Maybe Mendocino Gewurtz…
@klezman @Winedavid49
I was thinking a northwest Malbec or Zin with the spicy clue. Maybe even a Syrah?
@chefjess @klezman @Winedavid49 I was thinking maybe a Pacific Rim Gewurtz. Or based on the plural in the clue, Gewurtzes.
@Winedavid49
Awk! Forgot to check back sooner. Duh, Pepper Bridge …
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Nice.
There is northwest Malbec in all three so I was at least in the vicinity.
BTW, Case of Pedroncelli Rosè up on Meh.
/giphy violent-whispering-fig
@MarkDaSpark Oh George, how I miss you.
Howdy folks. Next up?
15 year old white? Damn right!
@Winedavid49 Time for a Winesmith 2005 Faux Chablis offering?
@klezman @Winedavid49 Please no. My wallet cannot take any more abuse.
@danandlisa @klezman @Winedavid49
I’ll be lab ratting tomorrow, just had scallops and risotto…
@winedavid49
i wonder if this song goes with tomorrow’s wine:
@Winedavid49
Raptor Ridge?
@chipgreen @Winedavid49 One could hope. Low on Pinot.
Unlikely, but WD’s been on a roll lately…Copain?
@karenhynes @markdaspark @danandlisa @rquillin @klesman i’m completely stumped on what clue to give on this wine. anyone want to whisper and help?
@Winedavid49 I think @klezman may not have gotten your s.o.s.
@Winedavid49 If you want, I can try to help. I’m about as good at coming up with these as I am at solving them - not very!
@InFrom @klezman @Winedavid49
Or @rjquillin
@winedavid49 is busy, so here it is:
A Titanic offer, but watch out for highwaymen.
@MarkDaSpark sorry, my daughter coaxed me into playing tennis. good job Sparky.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 How much did she win by?
@klezman @Winedavid49
No guesses yet?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Is this one of those western-themed, Bourbon barrel aged monstrosities?
Second clue: Raise the Bismark!
@klezman @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
I hope so, my credit card needs a break.
@klezman @Winedavid49.
Don’t believe it is.
Long shot, Cameron Winery in Dundee.
Wonder what @winedavid49 will offer us tonight?
ah so, it’s Hit or miss on this one. But it’s worth the gamble.
@Winedavid49 Educated Guess?
@Winedavid49 From that clue, this will be so obvious; I think.
@Winedavid49
Slingshot?
Or Flinch Reserve White Blend by Rutherford Wine Company?
@Winedavid49 Well, let’s see, a hit or miss bottle that might need an ah so to open?
@InFrom @Winedavid49
Some more Moran Manor Anagram Red Blend ?
Different vintage? Casemates offered an Ah So with it last time IIRC.
@Winedavid49
Or another Pavi Mystery Library offer?
(Although their aged Dolcetto offer had issues with their corks (2000 to 2004) last time.
@InFrom @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
well done
“Hit” would seem to be significant.
@rjquillin
So do you know what the offer is (i.e., you’re a labrat)??
@MarkDaSpark nope, just waggin’
Where is @karenhynes?
Ha! 2006 Moran Manor Red Blend!
Shoulda left off Anagram.
@MarkDaSpark The label does say Anagram though.
@InFrom. And the write up does as well! Score!
@winedavid49
/giphy fingers-drumming-impatient
i wonder what kind of watch this winemaker uses for this second brand of his.
@Winedavid49 Alpha Omega!
@Winedavid49.
Damn … I got all excited that we would see Cathy Corison’s 2nd label (Helios) until I read “of his”.
Darn you WD!
@Winedavid49
Hmmm, I wonder … we visited them during the last RPM Tour. And their 2nd label is a watch brand.
Easton Wines (Terre Rouge was their first label, with winemaker Bill Easton using his last name for their 2nd label.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Now an Easton/DTR offer would almost certainly get me. Yikes/fingers crossed?
@Winedavid49
Another possibility might be Evolution, 2nd label from Sokol Blosser winery of Dundee Hills (Oregon). Winemaker is Alex Sokol Blosser.
They were on the 2018 Wish List thread.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Not a bad wine. Like Sokol better. Evolution is sold at Fred Meyer’s. I have tried three varieties of Evolution.
@radiolysis @Winedavid49
Not Henrik Poulsen’s second label!
However, maybe his Acumen label?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 true. I misread and didn’t see that this was the second wine. I’ll slink back into the shadows again.
@Winedavid49
It’s not 100% clear to me that the watch name refers to the second label wine even though the offer will surely be second label. How about Tudor’s second label, Nacina?
@MarkDaSpark @radiolysis @Winedavid49
GO has had some good pricing on a number of the Acumen CS blends. They need a decant, but are pretty tasty given a chance.
Nope, nothing to do with the clue; just sayin’
Michel Rolland’s Rolex? Mariflor.
Think royal
@Winedavid49
As per above… Tudor’s second label Nacina? (or Highlands Project but I think that still has Tudor on the label?)
@chipgreen @Winedavid49 What’re the odds, indeed!
@chipgreen boom!
@winedavid49
Peggy Sue (sp?).
@Winedavid49
Hawley Winery
@MarkDaSpark Good one, Buddy!
@InFrom
Well, it might be, if @winedavid49 likes it!
Maybe another varietal other than Old Vin Zin?
Or will it be their 2018?
@InFrom @MarkDaSpark
I fondly recall the '04 Merlot.
More like that would be a treat.
@InFrom. He liked it! He really liked it! Woot!
@winedavid49 Can I give out the next clue?
@WCCWineGirl @Winedavid49
In absence of direction otherwise after five hours, I say go for it!
@WCCWineGirl was that the clue?
@pseudogourmet98 @Winedavid49 agreed…
@DanNC me asking could be a clue.
This blast from my past will have you untying your purse strings…
@WCCWineGirl
Ty Caton?
@WCCWineGirl way to go wine girl!
@WCCWineGirl
I guess I picked the wrong day to stop buying wine!
@WCCWineGirl
@MarkDaSpark @WCCWineGirl It’s probably EnTycement, so an easy pass
TyTanium at $30 a bottle, otoh…
@klezman @MarkDaSpark @WCCWineGirl
Nailed that one you did.
clue? this import best translates: famous deb Stewart digging.
@Winedavid49 I don’t even know where to begin…unless you got us Paolo Scavino Barolo??
@klezman @Winedavid49 Something with Creuse (French for dig?) in the name…that’s all I’ve got…
@Winedavid49
I got the Cava part, but not the rest of the clue…
Friday night clue? How about tomb raider with a different vowel?
@Winedavid49
Laura Michael (Zahtila)?
@Winedavid49 There’s a Craft winery in OR…
I thought with @winedavid49’s last 2 clues (w/out a reminder!) that I didn’t need to worry. Although, it is a holiday eve …
Silly me!
/giphy skeletons-waiting
happy sunday holiday! clue?
snake bite (but with another different vowel).
@Winedavid49
Vinum Cellars?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Good call. I was trying to think of a single vowel change from venom.
@klezman @Winedavid49
I was going to guess snoke bate, but the Google didn’t like that one.
@Winedavid49
Well, Venom bonded with Eddie Brock.
So one could always hope for Klinker Brick!
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Nice call!
@winedavid49.
/giphy Day-After-Clue
Clue? Aragorn but with one less g.
@Winedavid49
Vigo Cellars?
@Winedavid49
Umani Ronchi Vigor Sangiovese
@Winedavid49
Roar Pinot Noir?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Whatever it is, @losthighwayz has had plenty of time to compose his Rat Report and get it up.
@karenhynes Ohhh, I get it! Well done.
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Long live the Queen!
Would be nice if WD would “like” the winner, but how else would he get leads from us?
Aaron wines?
@pseudogourmet98
I thought about, especially with his PS! But wd only said remove a G, not a G & R.
Hmmm, I’m sensing tonight’s wine might have to do with a broke climate change skeptic.
@MarkDaSpark I am guessing you are a lab rat again. I want your luck.
@danandlisa
Sadly, no. But someone jumped the gun and sent out an email
@danandlisa @MarkDaSpark and?
@danandlisa @losthighwayz
Is that your guess?
@MarkDaSpark ZD wines??? I don’t know their politics but thoughtful folks.
@danandlisa @MarkDaSpark indeed - so I suppose a clue isn’t needed.
@danandlisa @WCCWineGirl
Well, my post was a clue! For those that didn’t get the email.
@danandlisa @MarkDaSpark it was for sure
@danandlisa @MarkDaSpark @WCCWineGirl winesmith.
@CorTot @danandlisa @MarkDaSpark @WCCWineGirl They’re always my guess when it comes to a premature email. But I didn’t get an email.
@danandlisa @InFrom @MarkDaSpark @WCCWineGirl other guess is stillman
@MarkDaSpark That was pretty well done.
Are we now guessing at a wine before wd supplies the clue? And I thought it was tough and a bit abstruse before.
@DanNC Sparky provided the clue above…
2nd part - Waterloo (vineyard)
First clue were 2 words (Broke / CCS) that refer to winery name.
Think Baroque
@MarkDaSpark Ohhh, Handel. Good one.
@InFrom. Yup.
Wellington used to source one of his cabs from there. (Thus the Waterloo clue)
Broken Earth? Or CCS=denier, so maybe Denier-Handal
@dirtdoctor. Ding, ding, ding
Hope tonight @winedavid49 will rest the CC!
We can haz clue?
But Y ?
@Winedavid49 Is Yannick coming back?
@Winedavid49
As noted by @danandlisa (and @klezman) … Y Rousseau not?
@Winedavid49
2 hours with no Star from WD. Hmmm …
Buty Winery from Walla Walla?
Although he didn’t Star @karenhynes correct answer before either!
@Winedavid49 I am hoping for Y Rousseau although my credit card is not.
happy Sunday. Clue?
nice to know even this winery, who grow and make among the best syrah’s in the world, want to be on Casemates. i’m stoked.
@Winedavid49 Four Lanterns Fire Light Syrah?
@Winedavid49
Ramey Wine Cellars
@Winedavid49
Or did you score more Penfolds Grange Syrah?
@Winedavid49
The Stoke ‘French for Shiraz’ Syrah ?
@winedavid49
Knock, knock
Who’s there?
Wine
Wine who?
Wine don’t you give another clue(or like one already posted?)!
nobody got the STOked reference i guess.
@Winedavid49 Even knowing what was coming, it was a stretch to make the connection.
@Winedavid49 Nope. Not even if you had typed it that way!
Paging @winedavid49 …
/giphy we_can_haz_clue
This time it’s a red. And i ain’t, how do you say in English, lying !
@Winedavid49
McCrea Cellars?
@Winedavid49
Man, digging deep, deep down!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Really? Seeing it now, it was hiding in plain sight!
@InFrom @Winedavid49.
It was way down the list on lying. In Spanish!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 I feel like there was a discussion of the origin of the name, the first time this brand was sold here.
@winedavid49
Double dipping tonight again amigos.
for casemates, we could get someone to help navigate in the river with a sportsman. (a rare 3 brand offer).
For some reason I recall once a 3 brand offer with Canoe Ridge in it. Although I may have made that up. So im going with a 3 brand offer from precept wine. If Canoe Ridge is one then I am not sure what the others might be. Could be Alder ridge or Huntsman or Chocolate Shop or even Battle creek.
@Twich22 bingo!
My thoughts exactly.
@Twich22 Gonna be a similar guess from me. Canoe Ridge, The Expedition, The Huntsman.
@radiolysis @Twich22
I think you’re on the right track, but the “amigos” makes we wonder if one of the wines might have a Spanish name?
@pseudogourmet98 @Twich22 Manzano i suppose?
@pseudogourmet98 @radiolysis @Twich22
Or all of them?
Doña Javiera Derrota Gran Reserva Syrah
Rio Alto Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcance Carignane
@radiolysis @Twich22 Damn near nailed it.
@rjquillin @Twich22 Ha! Of course “The Guide” isn’t listed on the Precept page… Tricky tricky!
@Twich22. Well, 2/3rds of a Ding, Ding … Winner, Winner …
@pseudogourmet98 @radiolysis So the double dipping amigos was for the Pedroncelli friends cases on meh.
@pseudogourmet98 @radiolysis @Twich22 @winedavid49
Would have been nice to have a mixed case offer for them!
@MarkDaSpark @pseudogourmet98 @radiolysis @Twich22 @Winedavid49 I agree. I would have probably jumped at a mixed case there in addition to today’s offering here. Maybe I should be thanking @Winedavid49 that he spared me from such an option.
@Mark_L @MarkDaSpark @pseudogourmet98 @Twich22 @Winedavid49 Just get yourself TWO mixed cases.
@radiolysis @Winedavid49
That’s ONE TOO MANY!
(I have 21 boxes to receive tomorrow, from March, when this SIP started!)
FYI, Pedroncelli Friends cases (Red or White) up on Meh!
@winedavid49 It should have been Paisano, not Amigos!
@MarkDaSpark damn, you are right. it should have been paisano! tonight’s clue? tough one. but since Walla Wall doesn’t have Primrose…
@Winedavid49
Amavi Cellars?
There is a Smoky Rose Cellars…
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Bergevin Lane?
@Winedavid49 Lone Madrone. Stab in the dark with a lot of jumps and hoops.
@Winedavid49 but Paso does?
Another offer from Aron Hill?
Or Primrose Trail Cabernet Sauvignon from Calistoga?
Or a Pedroncelli Rosè?
@chipgreen @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
I’m with @chipgreen
@chipgreen
@chipgreen @karenhynes @Winedavid49
If WD would “star” the correct answer sooner, I wouldn’t keep spamming answers!
I still think he does it to get tips for new wineries!
@chipgreen @karenhynes @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
It’s his entertainment, for coming with these ‘clues’ and watching us squirm.
@winedavid49
good evening.
Uri is red this time.
@Winedavid49
2017 Metal Bender Red Blend from Stringer Cellars
Or a Cab or Syrah?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Winner Winner!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 well done Sparky!
@danandlisa @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Well done indeed. I have no idea of the connection, but that’s nothing unique.
@danandlisa @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Uri Geller was (is?) known for moving and bending spoons with his mind, aka telekinesis.
I knew about him as an adolescent since I subscribed to Fate magazine for at least a few years and he was featured fairly regularly, along with anything related to ESP, UFOs, aliens, ghosts, astral projection, etc. I was fascinated by that kind of thing but eventually outgrew it in favor of sports, girls and partying.
@chipgreen @danandlisa @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Ah, yes…
~is~
@chipgreen @danandlisa @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Didn’t remember until a search on Uri showed his last name. Seemed to remember WD had used his name in a clue once before. Added Casemates to search … and voilà.
Metal Bender Sauv Blanc last time. Their site showed their red blend as a library, so figured it was the most likely.
@winedavid49
Clue?
clue? two opens and a crocodile
@Winedavid49
Lange Estate Winery & Vineyards?
(First guess)
@karenhynes nope. hint, clues for last names.
Something associated with Dundee or Paul Hogan?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Last names … hmm.
Greg Norman Estates?
@dirtdoctor I think you cracked it… There’s a Ben Hogan winery. He won more than 2 Opens though. But: according to my (wiki-)encylopedic knowledge, he won two in one year.
@MarkDaSpark Great image!
@dirtdoctor @InFrom that is exactly the same logic, but a different set. “hale” to the victor!
@dirtdoctor @Winedavid49 Irwin Family, then.
@dirtdoctor @InFrom @Winedavid49
Irwin Family Vineyards
@dirtdoctor @InFrom @Winedavid49
Ahh, you just beat me to it!
@dirtdoctor @Winedavid49 Hmm, the Barbera or the Tempranillo? Or a mix? Time will tell…
@chipgreen Ah, the man with golf baked into his user name! Guess what’s in the sale and go home with the trophy.
@InFrom
Haha, I think I shared the origin of the name with you previously and it was in fact for an online golf league, playing Links LS in the late 90s with gamers from around the World through the Microsoft Gaming Zone. Those were the days… I just stumbled across my chipping and putting charts (aka cheat sheets) the other day!
Think golf
@Winedavid49 That’s all anyone can think of! We’re veritably golf-obsessed!
@Winedavid49. Except Hale Irwin won 3 opens …
@MarkDaSpark OMG!!!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Details, details…
@InFrom @MarkDaSpark my golf proud family is embarrassed!!
@InFrom @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Maybe should have gone with Steve Irwin
@winedavid49
Still loading the clue?
over two 10’s in some vernaculars.
@Winedavid49
Pareto’s Estate Eighty20 Red Blend?
@Winedavid49
Paraduxx?
@Winedavid49
Ahhh…good one!
Happy Friday
clue? Peaked Clint
@Winedavid49
Dunn Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon?
@Winedavid49 It’s a rose, just need to narrow down the winery.
@Winedavid49
Mystic Hills Paso Robles?
@Winedavid49
Hawkins Cellars (Dundee, OR)?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 wishful thinking!!!
@Winedavid49
Black Stallion?
Ooh, ooh … Black Ridge Vineyards!
@danandlisa @Winedavid49
Should have known it was “Pale” Ryder!
@winedavid49
I get busy and no clue?
/giphy late-clue-late
Crap, i keep thinking i did. my bad. here’s an easy one.
this selection of wines are of distinction. Not for the general public wine drinker. which makes the name an oxymoron.
@Winedavid49
People’s Wine Revolution ?
@Winedavid49
Or Hoi Polloi?
@MarkDaSpark nope
@Winedavid49.
I changed to Hoi Polloi. Forgot it wouldn’t be Esoterica
@winedavid49
Must be catching! I could’ve sworn I posted asking for a clue!
We can haz clue?
hmmmm…royal slope…
@Winedavid49
William Hill?
@Winedavid49
Gård?
@Winedavid49
Maryhill?
Or
Winter’s Hill?
Or
Judd’s Hill?
@winedavid49
@MarkDaSpark
@InFrom @MarkDaSpark Will it be a Rose?
@Mark_L Ha!
you want a clue? I say, I say son…!!
@Winedavid49
Suncé Winery & Vineyard Italian Whites?
I hope their winemaking is better than their spelling.
Foghorn Winery seems to be a defunct label.
@InFrom Seems more likely than wines named Foghorn – nothing in the last 14 years or so.
@InFrom Of course, the original voice of Foghorn Leghorn was done by Mel Blanc. And Leghorn Wine produces a Sauvignon Blanc as well.
@InFrom @Mark_L
Nice call on winery and wine you two!
@winedavid49
We can haz clue?
So, if you had a winery pull out of a deal at 1:30 Central during a company day off, what winery offer would you plug in as a safe bet replacement?
@Winedavid49 thanks Ed! Ha!
@radiolysis @Winedavid49
Agreed. Add El Jefe, Clark, and Scott white label to the mix. If only Wellington was still around…
@Winedavid49 Also Slingshot and the other daily drinker Cabs that show up from time to time.
all right answers. but no. it’s one of the only unapologetic repeats we have.
@Winedavid49 Scott Harvey?
[edit: dang – saw that Scott was mentioned above]
@Mark_L @Winedavid49 esoterica or nxnw?
@Winedavid49
Iron Horse?
Hawley?
Onesta?
@Mark_L @radiolysis @Winedavid49
Could be NxNW …
@Mark_L @MarkDaSpark @radiolysis @Winedavid49
Kudos to whoever it is!
@Mark_L @MarkDaSpark @radiolysis @Winedavid49
I was thinking esoterica or NxNW as well. Radiolysis, we’re on the same path today
@Winedavid49
Gruet?
@MarkDaSpark
You called it.
@winedavid49 - Has there ever been a different combo than this trio that the wines would need to be called out by name?
keep going…
@Winedavid49 otro vez / arroyo?
@radiolysis @Winedavid49
Vino noceto? Amavi?
@Winedavid49
Little Band Blend
Annie Amie
Harvest Moon
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
yum. Harvest Moon sparkling red. I’m still waiting.
@Winedavid49
Hook & Ladder?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Peterson? Tercero?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Anne Amie sounds like a good bet.
Some Pacific Rim might be nice in this hot weather.
Haha! no. hint: exact repeat.
@Winedavid49 I say Son, what are you talking about?
brand and wines
@Winedavid49 The one that just sold out???
@Winedavid49 That narrows it right down to nearly a couple hundred possibilities.
@rjquillin @Winedavid49 If it’s literally an exact repeat of what we just had, it’s not too late for @shrdlu to find a guinea pig, er, I mean lab rat!
@InFrom @rjquillin @Winedavid49
I think it may be Gard or the Washington cab trio since the Leghorn sold out.
@Winedavid49 that canoe ridge trio?
@InFrom @rjquillin @Shrdlu it’s a literal repeat. 3+ times per year.
@InFrom @rjquillin @Shrdlu @Winedavid49 Gruet would seem to fit that description. NxNW Rose, too.
@InFrom @klezman @rjquillin @Shrdlu just saw this. Read over it!! My bad.
@InFrom @klezman @rjquillin @Shrdlu @Winedavid49
Emotionally distressed from being ignored!
Which late night commercial was from lawyers about class action lawsuits for Internet Snowflakes?
this is cracking me up.
@Winedavid49 It’s right under our noses, isn’t it?
@Winedavid49
Maybe the SH Mountain selection barbera and Zin. You did say brand and wines. I only said Scott white label the last time.
@Winedavid49 J Dusi!
@Winedavid49 onesta
@Winedavid49 except you missed the two times we said Gruet!
@klezman @Winedavid49 You can expect to hear from Sparky’s lawyers.
@klezman oh no!!!
@losthighwayz
My late night TV commercial lawyers will be contacting you as well for your usage of “onesta”. Just because you didn’t capitalize it doesn’t negate the emotional distress of repeating my previous guess!
Locke, Stock & Beryl
Since MdS seems asleep at the wheel, what’s up for tonight @winedavid49 ?
@rjquillin
Under advice from my attorneys, I am to avoid PTSD causing activities …
This favorite has a tasting room with a view of the Pacific Coast Range.
@Winedavid49
Anne Amie?
@Winedavid49 Pedroncelli? Iron Horse? So many of our favourites have tasting rooms with views of the coast ranges…
@Winedavid49
Yeah, that narrows it right down!
Kunde returns?
But I’ll go with @karenhynes and Anne Amie.
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Anne Amie does have a pretty fantastic view. Can’t wait to visit again.
@karenhynes @radiolysis @Winedavid49 I hate to be the naysayer in the group. Love the winery view and the location but not the wine.
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 wow. amazing guess. It could have been anything! I guess you must have to visit this tasting room.
@Twich22 @Winedavid49
It was totally a lucky guess. I’ve never been to their tasting room but it sounds like they have a beautiful view!
@winedavid49
/youtube 3hIcKkKID8k
i don’t know about a clue, but this may be the first wine from this region- ever (even w.w… i think).
@Winedavid49
Please tell me it is not a Florida wine.
@Winedavid49
We’re going to need another clue! New AVA or region or country?
Triassic Vineyards in Tehachapi Mountains AVA?
Or
Catalina View Wines in Palos Verdes AVA?
@pseudogourmet98 @Winedavid49
Or one from China!
@Winedavid49 Are we going to see a wine from Humboldt County? Briceland, perhaps??? (Wishful thinking, I suspect.)
Maybe something from San Diego County? Colorado? Virginia?
@klezman @Winedavid49
Please, nothing from down here…
@klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49
From Baja California?
@Winedavid49
Uh oh … another pending lawsuit! Class Action!
2020 Marvelous Blue South African Red Blend
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 That one is denominated “South Africa”, tonight’s is “Coastal Region”?
@winedavid49
We can haz better clue?
love Flip Wilson.
yet another rare event. last offer was from Michigan. this may be our best offer yet in this category.
@Winedavid49 Sherry…Port…St. Julien’s was an offer from Michigan
@Winedavid49
As @karenhynes said, probably cider. Or Apple Wine!
So, Graton Ridge Cellars A+ Apple Wine
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Or Attila Hard Apple Cider from WW days?
@CObrent @Winedavid49
Sherry is a possibility. I think there was a more recent port offer than the St Julian (Pedroncelli).
@CObrent @karenhynes @Winedavid49 Would love a sherry offer. Forgot how much I enjoy it.
Mead or cider?
@msten
I’m guessing cider. I don’t think there’s been a Michigan mead here.
i might give you a small clue, but i won’t give you “all of it”.
@Winedavid49
Smith-Story Wine Cellars
Or Stewart Cellars?
of course i’m speaking phonetically.
@Winedavid49 Olivet Lane?
@KitMarlot My money’s on you.
@KitMarlot @Winedavid49 Harvest Moon and Hook & Ladder are also on Olivet Lane. As is De Loach.
@KitMarlot @klezman @Winedavid49 I’ll go Sunce just to round out the neighborhood.
@KitMarlot @klezman @radiolysis NOT Sunce’
@KitMarlot @klezman @Winedavid49 Don’t need to be mean about it. Sheesh!!
@KitMarlot @radiolysis @Winedavid49 Was that in reference to how much people hated one of the Sunce offers on the old site?
@KitMarlot @klezman @radiolysis not a fan of our dealings.
@Winedavid49
No great loss. I wasn’t that impressed with their wines. Dropped by their tasting room, and same thing there.
@KitMarlot @klezman @Winedavid49 @MarkDaSpark I wasn’t around for the original showdowns, but i knew a little of the history when Lost brought it up during the last Sunce deal in Sep 2018. It’s a bummer when bridges are burned, regardless of the quality of the juice.
@KitMarlot @klezman @radiolysis @Winedavid49 It always felt like a cultural issue, I don’t think the owners were born in the US and there was some misinterpretation of comments which snowballed a bit out of control several times.
@CorTot @KitMarlot @klezman @radiolysis i think cultural misinterpretations did play a small factor.
@winedavid49
Where’s my birthday Wine!
Clue? the reds now from this winery have even more accolades. and no, there were no Dangerous Methods used in making this wine.
@Winedavid49 Vigo!
@radiolysis @Winedavid49
I was just coming to say the same!
@radiolysis
Nice call!
clue? Father of new Clipper.
@Winedavid49
Y Rousseau?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Sounds good!
@Winedavid49 I have enjoyed the Y Rousseau Tannat quite a lot.
Could it be Y. Rousseau again so soon? Prolly not 'cause I’m a terrible guesser.
PS I didn’t see @karenhynes post when I wrote this!
Agree, but which wine? Son of a butcher, playing on the “father of”?
@winedavid49
Clue?
…catholic troops.
@Winedavid49
Domain St George?
@Winedavid49 Could we be getting a Swiss wine?! Seems highly unlikely, but that’d be amazing. So little of it makes it to the USA and it’s by and large excellent.
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Seems like the logical choice but since you’ve already guessed it, I will throw caution to the wind and add some wishful thinking for a St. Supery Virtu offer.
@Winedavid49
I see what you did there. Great clue!..and that’s coming from a nice Catholic (-ish) girl who was sadly mislead.
catholic or Catholic? Either way, Trinitas
Karen is always on it. Domain St George
@winedavid49
Not many cases with this favorite. Don’t Insinuate you’ll get some of you wait.
@Winedavid49
That is a mystery in so many ways.
@Winedavid49
Urgency?
@Winedavid49
Iron Horse?
@Winedavid49 I got nothing, it sounds to me like that Peter Frampton song. “So don’t insinuate, you’ll get some of you, waiiiit”
Oh baby I love your wine, every time.
@Winedavid49
Rosè? Pedroncelli or Fossil Point?
Not my best clue. I may need more weapons.
@Winedavid49
Gård?
@Winedavid49
Slingshot?
@Winedavid49
InZinerator was my guess but I didn’t post it!
@Winedavid49
InZinuate might have given it away too soon, but still scratching my head on your clues!
Thought of Scott right away, but the rest was, huh?
hope y’all had nice 4th of July weekend. Sonoma is usually such a fun spot. not this year… bummer.
clue? Glad to get this winery back on. when looking for a clue, I notice it was really Dry on famous people that shares this last name.
@Winedavid49 narrowing it down a bit, one we’ve been asking for?
@Winedavid49
Dry Creek?
@rjquillin
That still won’t narrow it down!
@Winedavid49 Peterson Winery? (sharing the last name, the clue rings true…Adrian Peterson notwithstanding)
@Winedavid49
Meeker?
or
Seghesio?
@winedavid49
Clue? Pweeze?
Another winery that is primarily a grower (you might have found we source from this criteria alot).
kind of like some working on his or her own car. savvy?
@Winedavid49 Gearhead Wines fits the second part of the clue but not the first. Hmmm.
@Winedavid49
J Dusi?
@MarkDaSpark Nice!
@winedavid49
+2000 to win the world Seriez.
@Winedavid49 eaZy. I think I was supposed to Rat this bottle tonight. UPS just flagged it as delay approximately 2 hours ago.
@TechnoViking @Winedavid49 Are we talking a Swilly wine this evening?
@Winedavid49
Scott’s Angel Eis!
@klezman @Winedavid49 @MarkDaSpark I’m thinking Metz. Still no shipment… so I really don’t know.
@klezman @TechnoViking @Winedavid49
+2000 was White Sox and Angels
+2200 was the Mets!
So nice call!
@klezman @MarkDaSpark @TechnoViking @Winedavid49
Metz for breakfast; that works, but kix are for kids.
@klezman @MarkDaSpark @TechnoViking must have been a different book.
TGIF! Now if we can only figure out which “bookie”, err, “book” @winedavid49 is using!
/giphy waiting-for-clue
Caliztoga
@Winedavid49 Winery f/k/a Zahtilla Zin?
Toga, toga, toga!
@winedavid49
/giphy Animal-House-toga
Sorry, was at Russian River (not part of the clue)
He finally wore me down. Ok, St Laurent
@Winedavid49 Winesmith St. Laurent? Does Clark really need to wear you down?
@klezman @Winedavid49
Too obvious?
I have a very vague recollection of someone else mentioning working with St Laurent. Can’t for the life of me recall who it was…
@karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49
And here I was going off the OK ST (Oklahoma State basketball) player, Jonathan Laurent!
@klezman @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Haha!
I looked into a few other “Laurent”…and a couple of “Yves”, but I got distracted and gave up.
Tonight’s offer? WCCWineGirl may have had something to do with it.
@Winedavid49
Ty?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Or Muscardini
@karenhynes @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 We haven’t seen Muscardini in ages. I’d be shocked. So aside from Ty, where else has she worked or have the alumni from those places gone?
Or is this easy clue week?
@karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49
IIRC, after Ty she worked there until going to WCC.
So easy week!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Nice call!!! I didn’t know about that relationship.
@klezman
Ahem … O ye of little faith …
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
They had a shared tasting room in Sonoma for years, before they both needed more room. She would always help us when we visited.
It was 45-55 it was either Ty or Muscardini. I would have put Ty first too.
@klezman @karenhynes @MarkDaSpark
Doesn’t Ty share a tasting room with Muscardini?
EDIT: Posted at the same time… almost. I see that they are no longer sharing.
@karenhynes @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Hopefully those connections will result in WineSmith like participation. That was memorable.
@chipgreen @karenhynes @klezman
They separated rooms a few years back. 2014 or 2015?
@karenhynes @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 that’s was when she worked there? We probably met back then, in that case. That was a fun tasting room.
@karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49
She was working for Ty in 2008 when we went on the inaugural RPM Magical History Tour, but helping with Muscardini too. I think about 1 or 2 years before the tasting room separation, she started working for Muscardini only.
It was a lot of fun.
@winedavid49
Clue?
@MarkDaSpark working on it.
This import reminds me of an author of books about the west ( westerns).
@Winedavid49
McCarthy Family Estate Cabernet Sauvignon?
Something off Louis L’Amour
@msten @winedavid49
There’s Louis Latour…
@msten On phonetics alone, Lamoureux Landing. Not so common to see a Finger Lakes entry here, but I can dream…
@karenhynes @msten @Winedavid49 well done Karen!
I got to L’amour, but Latour doesn’t show up on one vines website!
@winedavid49
Another tough day?
@MarkDaSpark no, just livin’. clue? early Wanona flick. (she reminds me of winefarm).
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Assuming you meant Winona, Meeker (Lukas)?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 I meant, Lucas.
@Mark_L @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Yeah, that’s probably right.
@Mark_L @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
I was thinking Lucas & Lewellen but you’re probably correct
*Winona
@Winedavid49
Judd’s Hill?
Ooops. Dozed off…missed the first part of the clue up there. Zzzzzzz…
@karenhynes What happened? Did you finish that Williams Selyem Pinot?
@Mark_L
Lol! Yes, we did.
Came home, sat down, eyes closed.
It was a long week.
@Winedavid49
There is a Lucas Winery in Lodi …
But as already said, it will probably be Lucas & Llewellyn (@chefjess) or Meeker (@Mark_L).
(Since WD hasn’t “liked” any guesses yet. Although that isn’t always accurate!)
So nu? Where’s the clue?
/giphy so nu?
@klezman
/giphy cheeky_upstart_whippersnapper
@MarkDaSpark But I just had to get the “so nu?” in there!
first time offering this varietal alone with this “go to”
winery.
@Winedavid49
Hmmm, Pedroncelli
Either Mother Clone Zin (although it was over there a while back, but not alone here, IIRC)
Or their Cab 3 Vineyards … or
their Red Blend
@Winedavid49
Or a change up?
Merlot Bench or their Pinot?
@MarkDaSpark yes
and nope.
@Winedavid49
Ooh, ooh! Petite Sirah!
But probably either their Cab Franc or Chardonnay (Unoaked or Oaked)
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 I wouldn’t be unhappy with their Cab Franc. It has a soft spot in my heart, predating my wine.woot days.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
suggests something we’ve not seen before
@MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49 “Alone” it suggests it’s been sold before, but packaged with other varietals. Otherwise, the “alone” is meaningless in that sentence. Isn’t it? He would just have put the period after “varietal” and been done with it.
@InFrom @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
I sucked at English, that’s my story.
@InFrom @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Agreed. But then again, WS [WD?] has a “loose” relationship with the English language sometimes.
I, too, was hoping for a Cab Franc offering.
And just to annoy @MarkDaSpark by posting this nice and early, where’s the clue @WineDavid49?
@klezman It’s already tomorrow somewhere.
@klezman @rjquillin
So sad, molarchae is so young to be a widow.
@klezman @rjquillin @MarkDaSpark round hole.
@klezman @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49 Hoopes?
@klezman @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Twich22 @Winedavid49
Square Peg?
@karenhynes @klezman @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Twich22 @Winedavid49 “Boutique” and “ultra-premium” does not sound like us. I’m intrigued though.
@karenhynes
Well done!!!
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Nailed it! Great job, again!
When I want @klezman to actually ask @winedavid49 for a hint, he pulls a DB Cooper …
Deer house
@Winedavid49
Is it finally time for some Meadowcroft Pinot?
Fingers crossed. Two years is too long.
@Winedavid49 That’s a good one.
Can’t split any of those remaining cases for the last 90 minutes…?
@Winedavid49
Buck Shack
@chipgreen @Winedavid49 This seems very correct. And an easy weekend on my wallet
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
Ah, but will it be more Buck Shack Bourbon Barrel Aged Cabernet Sauvignon? Or other?
@chipgreen @klezman @Winedavid49
I like Chip’s guess better than mine. Saves me $$.
@karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49
FWIW, I am not normally a fan of bourbon barrel aged wines (although I do enjoy some of the bourbon barrel aged beers) but @Boatman72 shared a bottle of Buck Shack with @mrn1, @pjmartin and myself and we were all surprised at how good it was.
I’m not suggesting that the Earth moved but it was a solid bottle.
No idea if this offer will be the bourbon barrel aged, just throwing that out there…
@chipgreen @klezman @Winedavid49
It’s just Friday, you still have the weekend coming.
I know it’s difficult to keep track of dayz…
@Boatman72 @chipgreen @klezman @mrn1 @pjmartin @Winedavid49
I have a bottle or two of the bourbon aged Buck Shack (I think). I’ve never opened one…haven’t thought about it when preparing an appropriate meal.
@Boatman72 @karenhynes @klezman @mrn1 @pjmartin @Winedavid49
Disappointed that this is a kitchen sink blend instead of the Cab. For the same price. Probably a pass for me despite wanting to celebrate the newfound ability to redirect UPS wine packages to access points such as my local CVS!
@Boatman72 @chipgreen @karenhynes @klezman @mrn1 @pjmartin @Winedavid49 I have a new reason to buy more wine: Redirect UPS parcels to a different access point.
Happy holidays!!
@Winedavid49 That generally screams Iron Horse bubbles!
Could it be Joy!
Unlikely, that, if we ever see it here, would be a Friday offer.
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
Although it could be a small quantity?
Maybe their Chinese New Year bottles?
@MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49 I think we already know it’s Gruet…
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
Nevermind. Was thinking it was yesterday.
@klezman @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49
If you check the Wish List thread, you’ll see that it is definitely not Gruet. Other than that… ?
Sadly, although my rat bottle was successfully delivered to my local CVS today, when I showed up a half hour ago to pick it up there was a sign on the door saying that they closed early tonight.
I will pick it up tomorrow and post some notes once I get a chance to chill it and sip it.
@chipgreen @klezman @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49 Bummer, man! I thought that CVS gambit was going to work out, it sounded so promising. It’s like you’re Charlie Brown, and UPS is Lucy.
@chipgreen @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49 I must have misread, then.
@chipgreen @InFrom @klezman @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49 I got a rat bottle yesterday, but no email announcement to say when it will post. I am assuming Monday. If I’m wrong, it will be a late rat report. Sorry!
@chipgreen @ejrunion @InFrom @klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49
If it is tonight, just post that your report will be tomorrow. You still have Saturday and Sunday to report.
@Winedavid49
Or more Casemates Cellars QPR Select Red Wine Blend “Holiday Edition”???
Or a new QPR2?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Oh, please no. Just opened one of those so I could reply to a question on the main thread.
I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do with the ones I still have. If I give them away, I’d get very questioning looks in the future…
@MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Agreed, but again, that offer would protect my wallet!
@karenhynes
clearly you’re speaking of the QPR, not the IH!
@karenhynes @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49 Are we doing the Iron Horse Tin Pony release?
@karenhynes @klezman @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49 well hurry up and figure it out crew so I can determine if I’m staying up late to order ;p
@Winedavid49
we’re either totally off-base, or WD is asleep at the wheel.
@karenhynes this presents quite the dilemma…
@ejrunion @InFrom @klezman @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Ha! Guess I jumped the gun. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth (no, that is not a clue) but an email would have been helpful!
@winedavid49 Clue?
FYI, Barry Sterling, father of Joy, and founder of Iron Horse passed away this weekend in his sleep. Condolences to the Sterling and Iron Horse families.
yes. thanks Bonnie and Sparky for the heads up.
Tonight’s offer was slotted over two weeks ago.
i’m speechless at it’s irony.
@Winedavid49
Iron Horse Bubbly or Tin Can?
@MarkDaSpark ironic in style but mostly in name.
@Winedavid49
A Sterling vineyards sparkling wine?
@dirtdoctor well done!
@winedavid49
i don’t know, it’s all Latin to me.
@Winedavid49
Amavi or Prima Materia
Edit: or Apriori. (6:49 pm PDT)
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Somebody was asking about Amavi Syrah a couple days ago and WD said they could count on it. So that’s my guess of your three.
@klezman @Winedavid49
Sadly, forgot about Vinum!
@Winedavid49
Apologies. i just cam back from my sojourn delayed by weather conditions.
@Winedavid49 So a Pinot would be too obvious.
@Winedavid49 Guess not!
@rjquillin @Winedavid49 yeah I thought that was to obvious also! And getting Sojourn here also seemed like a stretch.
@klezman @Winedavid49 Wineries go what they gotta do to sell product when the normal markets dry up. This could be a nice pick-up by WD.
Now, if only Alice would send be bottles like this instead of wiskey casks.
Happy Friday. hah, this is another rare all white offer from a “Rushmore” winery.
@Winedavid49 I’m gonna go with Noceto Frivolo & Pinot Grigio.
@InFrom @Winedavid49
Agreed!
@InFrom @karenhynes @Winedavid49 clue me in on the Rushmore reference?
Or is it Shenandoah Valley?
@InFrom @Winedavid49
Doh! Wrong “president”.
@karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49 Just imagine a Mt. Rushmore of monument-worthy woot/casemates wineries. Though it’s hard to limit it to just four.
@InFrom @karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49
Ah … Important roles in success of WW & Casemates .
Wellington and Scott Harvey would definitely be on it.
@InFrom @klezman @Winedavid49
Me thinks WD used a reference to “Rushmore” on a clue a while back for a Noceto offer. I think we ended up interpreting “Rushmore” to refer to the stalwarts of our previous home which shall not be named. Noceto, Pedroncelli, Scott, Peter, etc.
@InFrom @karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49
Solid as a Rock!
Good evening. clue?
akin to Breakfast Club’s knoll.
@Winedavid49
There was a knoll in Breakfast Club?
@Winedavid49
Was hoping for a little more help, but…
Assuming this is a movie reference, the only time they were even outside was at the beginning and end when they got dropped off and picked up from detention. There was the end scene with Judd Nelson raising his fist as he walked across the football field to the tune of “Don’t You Forget About Me” but there was no knoll in the background.
Reaching, the movie was filmed in Des Plaines, IL and while I could not find reference to an actual knoll nearby, a synonym for knoll is ridge and there is a “Higher Ridge” neighborhood in the area. There is also a “Higher Ridge” winery but it is in Lincoln, NE so, umm, no.
Therefore, I will reach for the stars and guess Ridge Vineyards.
@chipgreen @Winedavid49 that would be amazing
@chipgreen Turns out your logic was spot on. Flawed, but spot on.
The last 3 times I’ve been the rat I’ve been stymied by the clue. It would be a nifty magic trick to make sense of the clue
@msten Contact @karenhynes…
@msten
Judd Nelson starred in it.
A knoll is a short hill.
Thus, Judd’s Hill …
Although I too was distracted looking for a type of elevation in the movie.
@msten
Oray aybemay @winedavid49 isay usingay Igpay Atinlay ?
@MarkDaSpark that guy is good.
ʇsısǝɹ oʇ ǝʃıʇnɟ sı ʇI
@winedavid49
@MarkDaSpark just watched Caddy Shack again the other night. can’t believe the amount to colloquialisms i use… Pond for your Sparky!
tonight? double dipping. on casemates: Lincoln’s foil…
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
A meh offer as well?
@Winedavid49
J Wilkes Wines?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 nice
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
and 2013 Wine For Home Red Blend from Broken Earth on meh.
Illuminaire Thaddeus vineyard something or Stevens franc cab franc
@winedavid49 Clue?
Running this one again at an even better price. maybe it will develop a FOLLOWING.
@Winedavid49. Or Gård?
I keep thinking Hoi Polloi too, or Lord Sandwich.
But probably Cult as @msten noted l
Like maybe a CULT.
happy Friday. Great to see Harding Park with it’s luscious greens for this years PGA. Coincidental this label shares the name of a PGA champion.
@Winedavid49 Greg Norman is just too easy.
@Winedavid49
Brooks Note???
@danandlisa Greg won the British but not the PGA. no, this one is more obscure.
@Winedavid49 Knew it was too easy.
@Winedavid49
Nelson Family Vineyards?
@Winedavid49
Stewart Cellars (they’ve been up before).
@Winedavid49
Irwin Family Cellars coming back?
Davis (Love III ) Bynum
Great guesses. there is another clue hidden in the second sentence.
@Winedavid49
LOL. Hubert Green.
Clue? about the same years when i got my first job out of college. Good ole’ Airborne Express.
@Winedavid49
Well, this one isn’t working too well…
@Winedavid49
Bouchaine Vineyards?
@Winedavid49
…or, David Clinton Wine Cellars?
same years as Madonna, Peter Gabriel…
@Winedavid49
Eberle?
@Winedavid49
MacRostie
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Some MacRostie would be well received.
They so, iirc, share the same building WCC is in…
Sparky is late!
Where’s @WineDavid49 with the clue?
@klezman Busy ordering dinner and then forgetting to ask!
oh no. i thought it took right before i went golfing!! 5 hours later… that’s a whiff!
@Winedavid49 is there a swing and miss wines or something?
@Winedavid49
Hmm, whiff is missing the ball. Brick is missing the basket in Basketball.
I call a Technical on WD!
@klezman @Winedavid49. Sadly, it isn’t the “brick” that comes to mind first … Klinker Brick!
Hey @winedavid49, Early begging for
it’s the least I could do. this winery resides on 8th street (driver, 3 wood, 7 iron from our warehouse).
@Winedavid49 We going back to Ty? Enkidu is a little close unless your golf game is even worse than mine.
Or if you’re really good, maybe Patz & Hall?
@klezman @Winedavid49
Distance wise, Patz is at low end (.3) and Ty’s at high end (.4).
@Winedavid49. I was going to suggest Tin Barn, but unless the golfer was Tiger Woods, it was out of range!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
I was also looking at that.
Brick Barn, Tin Barn, what Barn is next?
So tempted to put this in the daily thread
@rjquillin
32 proof!
@chipgreen @rjquillin
Were you tempted to put that in the Pedroncelli thread on that cab that clocked in at 16.1 ABV?
2016 Cabernet Sauvignon, Three Vineyards, Dry Creek Valley.
@chipgreen @ScottW58
Here I was prompted by the thread post.
Perhaps just a tad more attitude too, it was last night and I was a few glassfuls along…
@chipgreen @rjquillin
I do not condone this action but I understand
@chipgreen @rjquillin @ScottW58 16.1% for a Pedroncelli Cab? Wow.
I’ll be honest - if it’s Pedroncelli I’m not really looking at specs because I know the producer. Alcohol isn’t everything…
@chipgreen @klezman @rjquillin
Hmmm
@Winedavid49
We can haz mor cluez this time? Pweeze?
OK, I’ll try to put this clue out there.
The plows for this wine worked hillsides a bit further south compared to the last time this foreign winery appeared here.
@klezman many thanks. i suck at old world…
@klezman. Not so easy, is it?
Second clues are sometimes necessary …
@MarkDaSpark never said it was easy. But nobody even guessed or asked.
so this is almost the 1 year anniversary of offering this fan favorite. Perfect for this time of year. a case? i’m thinking a duo.
@Winedavid49 Pedroncelli Rose or Rose + Sauv Blanc?
@Winedavid49
I’ll throw in a guess for Gruet.
@Winedavid49
I’m not sure if these are specific to this time of year, but fan favorites so I’m guessing Peterson or Twisted Oak
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Almost a year since a Gruet offering.
@chefjess @Winedavid49 First time I’ve heard Peterson referred to as a fan favourite. Twisted Oak, otoh…
@Winedavid49
Scott Harvey!
Or Lord Sandwich
@Winedavid49 Onesta Rose of Cinsault and Grenache Blanche or the Mentida white blend.
@winedavid49
We can haz clue?
it’s all about Paicines baby.
@Winedavid49
Donati Family?
@chipgreen @Winedavid49 Good guess. Not sure there are any other wineries in Paicines.
@chipgreen @klezman @Winedavid49
Scheid?
I keep hoping @winedavid49 will post before I ask …
@MarkDaSpark why spoil the fun?? clue? Rich and Poor Aussie.
@Winedavid49
Davey & Browne ?
@Winedavid49
Dang it, I was thinking I should add Irwin Family too!
Forgot it was written by Irwin Shaw!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Oh yeah… I read that book back in the day. IIRC it was also a very popular mini-series starring Nick Nolte.
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
Yup, with Peter Strauss, Susan Blakely, and everyone’s favorite villain, William Smith.
Rat eligible?
(@winedavid49 Very nice clue!)
Oh @winedavid49, go ahead and spoil it!
Hah, given this season, you take out the I and the H And we got a very interesting conversation!.
@Winedavid49 Is this the time for Iron Horse Tin Pony? Too obvious?
*political conversation.
@Winedavid49 We going to see swilly?
@Winedavid49
Good one! That would be an interesting conversation!
Good evening.
We have reached the mountain top with this upcoming offer.
@Winedavid59
Archery Summit?
Peake Ranch?
Geyser Peak?
@Winedavid59
Kuleto Estate?
Chappellet’s Pritchard Hill Cabernet Sauvignon?
Pride Mountain?
Kunde?
all good guesses. think tasting.
@Winedavid49
Opus 1
@Winedavid49
Real guess … Chateau Montelena or Stag’s Leap
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 That would be beyond incredible.
@Winedavid49
Kunde
@chipgreen
Mentioned above.
@Winedavid49
Another hour, another guess!
Buena Vista or Gundlach Bundschu (gun lock bun shoe)
@MarkDaSpark
So it was… I missed that
@MarkDaSpark
until you pointed out that it had been guessed already.
I guess @WineDavid49 didn’t see it either! I thought that was a no-brainer
@Winedavid49
I said Kunde!
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
Probably they were both around the same time, but I didn’t see his 2nd clue before my guess was already there.
Funny thing is it is right above his 2nd clue!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Maybe if you didn’t guess 10 wineries at a time?
@chipgreen
I’d guess more, but then you’d have to take your shoes off to keep count!
Tonight’s offer is fitting given our current surroundings.
@Winedavid49 Sea Smoke?!
@klezman @Winedavid49
That was my first thought, along with Firestone and Homefire Sonoma.
@Winedavid49
Long shot: Smokey Ridge Farmstead & Winery (ok, really, really long shot!)
@Winedavid49
Smoky Rose Cellars (Walla Walla)
Or Smoke Tree Wines?
@Winedavid49
Hmmm, Don Sebastiani & Sons have Smoking Loon wines. And they have a 2018 Anniversary Cab.
Only 6 more to go, right @chipgreen?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Yes.
@chipgreen @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Nah, smoking loons are what you see in the pot farms of Canada.
@Winedavid49
Smoking Gun Cab Sauv?
Those are all better guesses the answer. Think instruments
@Winedavid49
Little Vineyards Band Blend?
@Winedavid49 How perfectly obvious.
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
Entirely different kinds of “instruments”. Nice!
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 although, ‘equipment’ would likely fit common usage a bit better.
@karenhynes @rjquillin agreed.
@Winedavid49
clue? Roaring back to Amador!
@Winedavid49 leoni farms?
@KitMarlot @Winedavid49 I think we have a winner
Clue?
looking forward to this very healthy offer. interpretre?
@Winedavid49 Sante Arcangeli?
@Winedavid49
Bien Salud winery?
@Winedavid49
Bien Nacido?
@klezman @Winedavid49
Ooh, so close!
@winedavid49
We can haz
Clue?
Sacagawea was maybe the most famous.
@Winedavid49
Wayfarer Vineyards
or
Pathfinder Winery
@Winedavid49
Canoe Ridge The Explorer?
@Winedavid49
Ha! I even googled “Guide Wine” and of course, all the results were about “Wine Guides”.
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
Forgot they were up in June! As a trio.
Seaman a dog Newfoundland ?
Maybe a Charbono (Charbonneau)?
@karenhynes I like your creativity here.
Clue? this winery’s second label is still fit for a queen.
@Winedavid49
Tudor Wines Nacina?
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
Sparkling guess, but no.
@Winedavid49
Mumm Napa?
Pennyroyal Farm?
It’s be a deep state second label- like New Mexico?
@Winedavid49
Gruet Isabelle?
@Winedavid49
Domaine St. Vincent Brut
@Winedavid49
But … but … but … “Domaine Saint Vincent is the second label of Gruet.”
Wine Searcher info
Good call, @chipgreen!
@winedavid49
You know … the thing.
@MarkDaSpark
The thing about the thing? That thing?
me? i’m at home enjoying this Carneros breeze.
@Winedavid49
Schug?
Baldacci?
@Winedavid49
Or a return of McEvoy Ranch?
@Winedavid49 Is there any Wind Gap Carneros?
(Nope…couldn’t find anything close to recent.)
One of the Treasury properties? Acacia?
Close(to my house) but no cigar.
@Winedavid49
Windvane?
@Winedavid49 haven’t seen them in ages!
Anaba=Carneros winds
@winedavid49
We can haz clue?
Clue?
“They get the job done”
@Winedavid49
The Closer, Cab Sauvignon, Paso Robles
@Winedavid49 signed L.M Miranda
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Donati Family, The Immigrant?
@Winedavid49
Maysara Immigrant Pinot Noir
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Donati Immigrant sounds about right…
@Winedavid49 Another “Hamilton”-based hint from WD…
Since it’s a Sunday on a Holiday weekend … we’ll ask extra early!
@winedavid49
Crap, i kept forgetting. it has nothing to do with the Altier Chardonnay we dove into today…But on to the clue. We were just negotiating the woot cell…err Casemates cellars holiday label juice over lunch. not sure the blend “haggle” will play out, but this all Cab medley offer is a first with this long time partner.
@Winedavid49
So we’re getting an advance holiday bottle
@rjquillin Lol, don’t get the tree trimmings out yet.
Let’s see, a long-time partner, a medley of Cabs… Somebody who’s been around since the Woot days, possibly…
@Winedavid49
Meeker?
@Winedavid49
Lucas & Llewellyn?
@Winedavid49
Should have known it would be Pedroncelli!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Pedroncelli for the holiday wine is good news!
@klezman @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
I agree!
@klezman @MarkDaSpark TBD
@winedavid49
Clue?
this one is becoming about the best daily drinker of this varietal out there. a relied upon starter like my boy Tom Seaver was for hiz team.
@Winedavid49
Metz Road. Pinot Noir
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
That is a great (and very topical) answer. Just to throw something else out there, how about…
O’nesta Cinsault or “Cinsaut” if you prefer.
@chipgreen @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Spell it “Cinzaut”, and I’d say you have a shot. But no.
MdS ill or something?
Haven’t seen the clue query @winedavid49 yet…
@rjquillin
Nope, fine. Got busy …
On the contrary! (That’s the clue)
@Winedavid49 “Just Another California brand? Au Contraire! Tailor Made Au Contraire wines are tailor-made for those who love to live life to the fullest.” (That’s my guess.)
@InFrom @Winedavid49 That sounds too cheesy for a Friday offer. Hmmm…
@Winedavid49
GLM’s “The Denier”?
@Winedavid49
Probably too obvious, but… Linne Calodo “The Contrarian”?
@Winedavid49
Doh! Gotta be Denier-Handal!
@InFrom @Winedavid49
Good call!
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 I wouldn’t have minded being wrong, if the right answer was Denier-Handal!
@InFrom @karenhynes @Winedavid49
Nice call!
@winedavid49
We can haz clue?
happy Friday from smokey Sonoma…
clue? We could use a statesmen senator like this from the upper midwest right about now.
@Winedavid49
Hawley? MO is not necessarily upper Midwest, but there was a white offering from them a while back
@Winedavid49
St. Hubert’s?
@Winedavid49
Taft Street Winery?
@chipgreen @Winedavid49 Time to break out that rotisserie chicken pairing again…
@chipgreen @Winedavid49 Great job Chip!
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
Nice call!
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
Great call!
clue for this evening?
Lake County acquisition.
@Winedavid49
Shannon Ridge? Or Steele? One acquired the other
@Winedavid49
Steele Wines?
@Winedavid49
Shannon Ridge bought Steele Wines.
So a portfolio of Steele Wines (Shooting Star, Stymie, and Writer’s Block)?
Edit: Aargh! Took too long copy & pasting brands!
hello from smoky Sonoma…
Clue?
my favorite Paul Simon Album.
@Winedavid49
King’s Estate?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Nice…I like the train of thought there.
@Winedavid49
Tin Pony? (One Trick Pony)
@Winedavid49
Is it Swilly?
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
Oh my
teehee
I know I know, but I’m not telling, yet
/giphy lab rat
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
please note, I did not choose the pic
@Cerridwyn @chipgreen @Winedavid49
So not any so far?
@Winedavid49
St. Julien?
St. Amant?
(The Rhythm of the Saints)
@karenhynes boom
@Winedavid49
/giphy Welcome-to-Graceland
@Cerridwyn @chipgreen @Winedavid49
Good one tho…
@Winedavid49 Can’t wait to see which wine it is!
@InFrom @Winedavid49
One that doesn’t ship to Ohio, I know that! Silly buzz-kill legislators. Bummer, I was really hoping for something from Swilly and the Hill of Graceland vineyard.
@chipgreen @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
The crown didn’t give it away?
@winedavid49
We can haz clue?
i usually take the night off when this winery comes up! want to guess what varietal it is?
@Winedavid49
Grenache?
@Winedavid49
Cab Franc?
@Winedavid49 Norton!
@Winedavid49 @karenhynes @chefjess @twich22
INTERNATIONAL GRENACHE DAY – Third Friday in September
@chefjess @karenhynes @rjquillin @Winedavid49 ah, you are probably right!
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Thank goodness I have been good. Love his wines. Thanks Casemates.
@Winedavid49
So a Winesmith Grenache
Since no one “said it yet”!
Port?
@InFrom
is that a varietal?
Grenache, but aren’t you a couple days late?
Nope, right on schedule!
@rjquillin I was thinking Pedroncelli, but the trend seems to be WineSmith. In which case, I’ll go with Pinot Gris.
Happy Friday.
Clue? Yellow band but with a F.
@Winedavid49
All I got is Furthermore or VN’s Frivolo
Or a Lang & Reed Cab Franc
@Winedavid49
Foldplay? Coldflay?
I got nothin’…
@Winedavid49 I still don’t get it.
@Winedavid49
Great clue!!!
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 so it’s yellow band = live strong -> farmstrong?
@Twich22 @Winedavid49
Live Strong was established by Lance Armstrong…thus Farmstrong.
@karenhynes @Twich22 @Winedavid49
Ohhh …
@karenhynes @Twich22 @Winedavid49
Nope, I still say it has something to do with Coldplay. WD put the wrong wine up by mistake.
@chipgreen @Twich22 @Winedavid49
I tried the Coldplay angle, too, briefly. I couldn’t put much into it to night though…I was at a retirement dinner.
@winedavid49
We can haz clue?
Clue? today’s wine is part of the clue. Also, varieties.
@Winedavid49 We getting an actual field blend of Zin/Carignane? Maybe something from Buchignani Ranch? Or if we’re really lucky, Ridge Mazzoni Home Ranch? Anything from Bedrock or Once & Future or Ridge would qualify as well…but that would be one hell of a blockbuster Monday offer!
@Winedavid49
Onward Wines?
@Winedavid49
Field Recordings mixed reds:
Loomis No. 1 Zinfandel, Zabala Syrah and Tommy Town Carignan
@klezman @Winedavid49 you’re dreaming here buddy!
@CorTot @Winedavid49 One part wish, one part suggestion…
@Winedavid49
Farmstrong Field Rosè and/or their Field White?
@Winedavid49 OK, i’ll be the first to admit, I don’t get it.
Definition of cultivar. Ok it wasn’t my best… good wine though…
Good evening.
i have not been more excited about an offer in a while.
i’m down right Sideways! Turn the volume up for this one!
@Winedavid49
No way is it a Cheval Blanc 1961? Maybe a Lucas & Lewellen or Louis Latour Grand Cru? Fiddlehead Cellars?
@Winedavid49 Row 11 Pinot Noir? (Eleven Eleven looks a little pricy for the likes of us.)
@Winedavid49
Sideways?
Must be a Merlot from somewhere…
@rjquillin @Winedavid49 Or a Pinot Noir.
Clue? known for it’s fragrant aromas!
@Winedavid49
Lord Sandwich (the dog, not their wines)
Or a Flying Goat offer?
hello from finally clear skied Sonoma. Fun couple of offers on the last couple. time to mix it up. There’s no shrimping from this familiar french label.
@Winedavid49
Another Y Rousseau offer?
Or another Chateau Haut Beyzac?
Or Gård?
@Winedavid49 Something from Grande Crevette?
@InFrom
Could be!
@Winedavid49. Forgot about Latour!
@winedavid49
Sellout was so long ago, gettin’ kinda bored here and need a clue.
Fair enough. this winery is replete with an herb garden AND a potting shed. damn good wine too.
@Winedavid49
Roblar?
@Winedavid49 IH sure checks those boxes.
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
While I’d like to see IH, I don’t remember seeing a potting shed.
And Roblar checks.
@Winedavid49 is it the Hunt Country Vineyards offer im looking for
@Winedavid49
Paradise Ridge?
@winedavid49
lord help us.
clue?
you may know my soft spot for Washington Syrah’s. here’s another one. Even a bad Meryl Streep in a bad movie would agree!
@Winedavid49 Prime Cellars?
@Winedavid49
Hmm, not Washington, Roth Estate Winery
Or
Ross Andrew Winery in Walla Walla
@Winedavid49
Bergevin Lane Syrah She-Devil
@Winedavid49
Strange guess…K Vintners?
@Winedavid49 Amavi? Just wishful thinking really.
@chipgreen good work!
No idea, but Syrah in the mix gets me interested!
Clue time @winedavid49
yea, i keep trying to come up with a clue with some gravitas, some backbone, some meaning. K?
@Winedavid49
Vigilance?
Best I can do off the top of my head…
@Winedavid49
I’m going to go with my “weird guess”…
Is it time for some Vampire Vineyards? Or is that not due for another week or so??
Their address is “…Unit K…”
FYI, staying north.
@Winedavid49 K vintners would be nice.
@CorTot @Winedavid49 My wallet cannot take anymore.
@Winedavid49
Or Wines of Substance
@CorTot @Winedavid49 my first thought as well, but didn’t make any of the other connections.
@Winedavid49
Nailed it! After having to re-look after K Vintners was already mentioned (oldtimers had me forgetting 2nd guess WoS).
And using phone, my fat fingers kept going to VMP or user history pages!
@winedavid49
We can haz Clue?
STL v SD good playoff baseball.
Clue? i don’t know about no brand or label, but as far as region goes? This has nothing to do with being above or below 200.
@Winedavid49
Go Cards!! Drawing a blank on the clue, but big cheer for the home team.
@Winedavid49 Is this a CM branded wine?
(I really miss those old Woot Cellars labels!)
@klezman @Winedavid49 Thought 200 might be a latitude but they dont go that high. No idea what it could reference. Altitude? Street number? Thats all I got.
related to weak hitting shortstops. fyi.
@Winedavid49 I was gonna say batting average but decided against it!
@Winedavid49
That would make it from Mendoza so probably a Malbec although Argentinian winemakers are slowly starting to diversify their red wines.
Apparently there is a “Mendoza Vineyards” brand but I think there is more to the “no brand or label” portion of the clue. Hmmm…
@chipgreen Looks like you got the WD Seal of Approval!
@chipgreen @Winedavid49 Yup, I was also thinking batting aveage, but then got lazy.
Kudos!
Chipgreen has it with the Mendoza Line, where no amount of defensive skill can offset a poor offensive contribution. If the clue was .085 your talking Hank Aguirre, Tigers fans would love that clue!
@msten there you go!
@msten @Winedavid49
Carlos Santana of the Indians almost crept over the Mendoza line in the last game of this abbreviated season. He went 3 for 3 to raise his average to .199.
Salentein Killka. Give us a clue for this WD.
Happy Sunday.
i know i’m manipulating a vowel, but i’m a huge Mendolorian fan.
@Winedavid49
Peterson?
@Winedavid49 I’m excited for season 2.
Regarding the clue, I’ll assume it’s something awesome!
BTW, I saw a competitor has the Roessler black pine up today. I’d love you to bring those back.
FOOLS! TOOLS! JEWELS! AWESOME!
@Winedavid49 a Mendocino wine?
@Winedavid49 nothing to do with scifi bounty hunters but I’d love for Navarro to show up
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Congrats! One day, WD will surprise us by liking the right answer early!
@chipgreen Tomorrow’s still Wednesday, right?
@Winedavid49
@chipgreen @InFrom @winedavid49
Yes. Sorry, dinner arrived early.
oh lordy, can you tell it’s Q4 planning time or what??
clue? easy one. a type of duck but with a B.
@Winedavid49 Ballard lane
@Twich22 @Winedavid49 something from Ballard Canyon?
Clue?
Great elevation with this offer. These are the days!
@Winedavid49
The Climber by Clif Wines?
Or Flying Goat Cellars?
@Winedavid49
Or Shannon Ridge High Elevation Zinfandel?
Or even Stillman Brown Zeppelin Winery?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
You’re not getting much love from WD on these, yet, but I’ve got nothing better either.
@MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49 And here I was waiting for @karenhynes to the rescue, but I see she liked your comment. All is lost!
@InFrom @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49
I got sucked down a rabbit hole of music and poetry…had lots of ideas but none have really panned out.
@InFrom @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49
OK…crazy guess…Miro Cellars Pine Mountain Cab?
@InFrom @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49
“These are the days”…makes perfect sense now.
@InFrom @karenhynes @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
And a very good clue, if we weren’t clueless.
Good to see continuing offers here.
@InFrom @MarkDaSpark @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Indeed!
@InFrom @karenhynes @rjquillin @Winedavid49
I thought about them too, but forgot their name for their Syrah! Was going to look for “great elevation” in other languages, but got interrupted. La Altura might have triggered my memory since it’s almost “Alturas”. Doh!
Thought it was a good clue. Known for High elevation.
@Winedavid49 we going back to the Andes?
@Winedavid49 Ok, this works well to pick pockets.
@Winedavid49. It was an excellent clue!
@winedavid49
Amphibious chicklets.
@Winedavid49
Frog’s Tooth?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
What Karen said…
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Please let it be the Petite Syrah. Pretty Please.
@danandlisa @karenhynes @Winedavid49
Well, with 14 varieties in Rosè A, it probably does have some!
Folks, I know this is a long shot, but a deal on some Port Wine would be nice. It’s been awhile !!
@winedavid49
We can haz Port … err, clue?
clue?
i think you will be taken by this offer. transfixed.
@Winedavid49
Spellbound?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
/youtube gwpaA5HGo9k
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
How does she do it?
@karenhynes @rjquillin @Winedavid49
I still say surveillance cameras and bots!
Although to be honest, it was an easy clue.
@winedavid49
We can haz clue?
This wine is consistently requested throughout the year. no extra seasoning needed for this sister winery.
@Winedavid49
Amavi (Pepper Bridge)?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 nice
@karenhynes Well done!
Jana vermentino
you get an A for effort. but no.
@Winedavid49 Amrita Cuvee A?
@Winedavid49 Anne Amie
@Winedavid49 If Facebook is any clue, it will be the Sterling Vineyards 2016 Winemaker’s Select next up.
@danandlisa
A bit premature on their post, eh?
@karenhynes Yes. It has happened a couple of times.
sparkling track record, vintner’s choice…
@Winedavid49
Hmmmm…whatever could it be???
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Gruett?
New to this, and don’t know much about vintners.
@Winedavid49
IIRC, @danandlisa already answered … Sterling Vineyards 2016 Winemaker’s Select
Horses run on tracks. Sparkling or sterling.
Karen must be a labrat, otherwise way too easy for her.
@msten
@danandlisa posted it 4 hours ago.
@danandlisa @MarkDaSpark @msten
Sadly, not a rat…as far as I know!
@danandlisa @MarkDaSpark
I see, didn’t scroll up far enough.
@karenhynes @MarkDaSpark @msten @Winedavid49 Wish I was a rat.
@msten
Looked back, before my first post here, and she seems to be very good.
@CroutonOllie @msten @karenhynes
.that. is an epic understatement of her abilities.
@karenhynes @msten @rjquillin
Much better than I will ever be!
@danandlisa @karenhynes @msten @Winedavid49
Poof You’re a rat
/giphy you dirty rat
@karenhynes @MarkDaSpark @msten @Winedavid49 If it where that easy. Karen is amazing.
@winedavid49
@MarkDaSpark Are you telling us it’s a dry white?
@InFrom
Nah, it’ll be a dry red!
@InFrom. Looks like it’s a off-dry white!
Hope @winedavid49 is okay!
@MarkDaSpark backpacking in Yosemite and I suck at delegating! Sorry. Resume
Sunday!
Attempting to step in for @winedavid49 here…and don’t worry he will be back for the next clue!
Translate: Customer
@arianaWCC Kunde. What wine, though?
@arianaWCC Thank you Ariana! got back late but in one piece. yes, a favorite coming up for sure!
ok, hat in hand back giving a clue.
good thing we always hit the mark on this one.
@Winedavid49
Slingshot???
@Winedavid49
Clue: Fred
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 it’s funny, I immediately thought slingshot but thought it was too obvious…
@winedavid49
We can haz clue?
Two vintages for this nouveau favorite. Wishlist answered!
@Winedavid49
I guess that would be the Onesta Cinsau(l)t
@chipgreen @Winedavid49 If it is, it is lovely.
@chipgreen @danandlisa @Winedavid49
Although, it’s not really a “new” favorite, is it?
Perhaps @klezman’s request for … Buttonwood Cabernet Franc is being answered!
While WD commented about the Cinsaut, he said before Thanksgiving, so it could be sometime next week.
@Winedavid49 That “nouveau” brings me to Henry Fessy Fleurie “Château des Labourons” Beaujolais Cru. But the “nouveau favorite” makes me wonder if it could be a Louis Latour. Not that I recall seeing either on the Wish List.
@Winedavid49 Bless you! Love this wine.
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
Nice call!
happy friday.
nickname for Petite Sirah. man’s best friend.
@Winedavid49
Pet Name
@Winedavid49 vinum cellars petite sirah “PETS”
@CorTot @Winedavid49
Well done!!!
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 I usually have no idea, this was obvious for whatever reason. I think I’ve seen this bottle on the store shelf before.
@CorTot @karenhynes @Winedavid49
At GO?
@karenhynes @rjquillin @Winedavid49 I think so, I don’t recall the price or vintage though.
Yep, or Mutt Lynch.
@msten That’s a nickname for Petite Sirah?
@InFrom no , but when was the last time you got to type “ mutt “ ? Need a dog in there, somehow. Radog
@msten Radog, there’s a blast from the past!
@InFrom @msten
Mmm, I should go find one of those and see how it is.
@InFrom @msten @rjquillin
Dan Tudor retired the Radog label years ago. Replaced it with Nacina and I don’t think he is even using that anymore. His most recent 2nd label bottling was the Highlands Project.
@winedavid49
We can haz clue?
wow, what a world series!
this wine? i bet they are a fan of the pin stripes. Traveling to this winery no doubt requires one or more spans.
@Winedavid49
Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Seems to fit the clue, but that seems like an unusual winery to have here.
Dry Creek Vineyard actually has bridges going in. So does…Iron Horse.
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
no star yet from WD, but a nice guess.
Woodbridge and Brad were quite the unexpected on the last tour.
@klezman @Winedavid49
True, but Woodbridge is the “Official Wine of the Los Angeles Dodgers”.
@karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49
Maybe now that the ballgame has ended.
@InFrom @klezman @Winedavid49 @rjquillin
WineDavid throwing a curve ball with a NY wine! Well played, WD!
@karenhynes @klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49 Bridges? We don’t need no stinkin’ bridges! (Well, not from where I live, anyway.)
Top of the 7th and …???
i keep thinking i submitted the clue… blame it on baseball…
clue? comment in Caddy Shack by the oldest cast member.
@Winedavid49 something about a duck?
@Winedavid49
“Rat farts” by the Bishop?
@Winedavid49
Completely forgot about the old couple!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 I just noticed, we’re clueless!
@InFrom @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Tonight’s deal is a really good wine and a great cause.
Like a sturdy farm house
@Winedavid49 Lol. Three strong little pigs? and a farm.
@Winedavid49 Which one from Farmstrong?
@klezman Nah, that’s too on-the-nose for the devious WD.
@Winedavid49 I wish and pray it was Brick House from OR, but that would be a dream come true. Such lovely people and wine.
@danandlisa @Winedavid49 tin barn?
@Winedavid49 Right winery, wrong state. Maybe someday.
@winedavid49
We can haz clue?
This time?
Steve Sugar
@Winedavid49
Martin Ray?
@Winedavid49 thought we might get a Kosta- Browne, off a Steve Costas/ Brown sugar clue. Reminiscent of an old Lawyer Malloy/Paul O’Neill clue for a Miloy O’Neill wine on some old site years ago.
Good evening.
Clue? Get your gun, Cherie’.
@Winedavid49 Time for another round of Buck Shack?
@Winedavid49 A Smoking Gun offering, or perhaps a repeat of Hoi Polloi Two Guns (which had notes of cherry)?
Anne Aime
@msten No doubt. Nicely done. Still trying to figure out how @karenhynes connected the dots on that one the other night.
@InFrom @karenhynes @msten
Steve Martin / Sugar Ray
happy election night!
We shall see if the country has a jolt of enlightenment this election year.
@Winedavid49 that the clue?
Yeah, likely so.
Karen?
@Winedavid49 Epiphany Wine in Los Olivos?
@Winedavid49
Luminara from Trinchero Family Estates
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
I’m with @msten. Y Rousseau.
@Winedavid49
Or Galante Kick Ass Red?
@klezman @Winedavid49
Is that the same as Epiphany Cellars in Santa Maria? One of my very first wine.woots was an “Epiphany Spring Trio”. I remember how much we enjoyed the 2006 Inspiration White from that offer.
@klezman @Winedavid49
Well Done!
@klezman @Winedavid49 perfect response. Well done.
Y Rousseau.
@winedavid49
We can haz clue?
Clue? North of North Coast.
@Winedavid49 NxNW?
@Winedavid49
Peterson Winery?
Another Barbera or a new Varietal?
@MarkDaSpark @Twich22 Y’all aren’t guessing much!
I think Peterson is Mendocino, which is part of the North Coast AVA.
I think I’ll stop there, since I’ve got a Big Bottle of this Beauty & Beast of a Beverage on my table.
@klezman @MarkDaSpark @Twich22
Yeah, it’s been difficult to zipper the pie hole on this one.
I’m thinking/hoping for a sell-out; should be anyway.
Go Andrew!
Tonight? even farther north. great wine for daily Thanksgiving drinkers.
@Winedavid49 Oregon Pinot? But which one?
@Winedavid49.
Oregon and Washington Rosé trio?
Waterbrook, Browne Family Vineyards, & Primarius ?
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Hope this is the case. Oregon Pinot is an auto buy and I just don’t have the room. Rose, I still have some.
@Winedavid49 egg nog?
@danandlisa @Winedavid49
You’re safe. A trio of Whites.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 I know. I would jump if it was just the Gewurztaminer. Please Dave, give us an offering of Gewurtaminer. It is so hard to find a good one.
Happy Sunday!
I hope o do t make a “mess” of something on this clue (Irish slang)
@Winedavid49
Odonata?
@Winedavid49
Hames Creek?
@Winedavid49
Rocklin Ranch?
@Winedavid49
Scheid?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Once again, Karen, you are amazing!
@danandlisa @Winedavid49
Awww…thanks! But gonna have to give it to Sparky for his Hames Creek guess, too!
@danandlisa @karenhynes @Winedavid49
Although I thought @chipgreen had it because of WD’s “o do t” part of the clue!
new clue? these lyrics preempt " they caught the last train for the coast…".
@Winedavid49
Trinitas?
Trinity Vineyards?
@Winedavid49 Sounds like a Holy Trinity wine (GSM).
@karenhynes and I thought I was being clever.
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
Well, just in case it’s not those …
Trinity Oaks Wines
Trinity River Vineyards
And Trinity Canyon (NZ)
@Winedavid49
Wait … “preempt” or “precede”???
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 I had the same thought…
@Winedavid49
If preempt (take the place of) … Leoni Farms
Trinitas
@msten
You know you’re supposed to reply to the clue in the post, right?
Can’t be done.
@msten
@msten
@winedavid49
under three hours to go now;
time to yank your chain, or pull your cork.
@rjquillin normally, i’d take this night off.
@Winedavid49
There is an Abnormal Wine Co.
Here in San Diego.
Do avoid it.
@rjquillin @Winedavid49 WineSmith has been quiet so far.
@danandlisa @rjquillin @Winedavid49 A Friday winesmith offer could mean the Ishi Pishi Roman Reserve…yikes…
@danandlisa @klezman @Winedavid49
That could absolutely put the hurt on the card and storage as well.
@klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49 I would be perfectly okay with that!
@danandlisa @rjquillin @Winedavid49 Yeah, serious hurt that would be. But two Friday offers in a row from Ishi Pishi would be amazing. It’s one of my favourite vineyards these days between Briceland and Cabot.
@klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49 I agree. But it would be fun to compare and contrast. Tis almost the holiday season.
@danandlisa
@InFrom I wish it was the Ishi Pishi.
Happy Friday.
another western novel writer? not.
@Winedavid49
Louis Latour, not Louis Lamour
@chefjess @Winedavid49 That might be tough on my wallet, if so. Especially after today.
@PatrickKarcher I was thinking the same thing.
Unless there is a Zane Grey Winery
@msten I just tried that angle.
2 weeks to Thanksgiving … we can haz clue @winedavid49?
Clue? How about Edwin’s brother.
@Winedavid49
J Wilkes Wines?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Karen for the win!
@winedavid49 think you’ll do mystery cases again? I need some excitement in my life
@CruelMelody
2020 hasn’t delivered for you!?
@rjquillin haha I’m more depressed than excited
@CruelMelody @rjquillin working on it!
Clue?
Another great value from Folio!
@Winedavid49 something Oberon, perhaps
@msten @Winedavid49 Or Hangtime, Spellbound, …
@Winedavid49
More likely Spellbound …
@Winedavid49
Hmmmm,
Perhaps a launch here?
@msten @Winedavid49 And there’s always LUKE.
@Winedavid49
Some Dutton Goldfield Pinot would be nice…but we just had a pinot, so I’m thinking not that.
@Mark_L @Winedavid49
Winner, winner
Paging clue from @winedavid49
Clue? Dumas would have surely put his name to this.
@Winedavid49
D’Artagnan Vineyards? Aramis Vineyards Australia?
@chefjess @Winedavid49 Well, there’s always The Count from Buena Vista.
@Winedavid49.
Duh! Musketeer from Y. Rousseau
@MarkDaSpark haha!
Clue. Originally John and Jim. always a great great value. ready for variety??
@Winedavid49 pedroncelli mixed case!
@CorTot @Winedavid49 I must recuse myself from this matter. My Labrat report will be submitted in the morning (as I retire before the offering goes active). TYVM.
@Winedavid49
Italian for QPR
@kawichris650 damn straight!
@winedavid49
@MarkDaSpark talk about a tough act to follow! it’d take a religious zeal (and a great deal) to follow Pedroncelli!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
Pacific Rim?
@Winedavid49
Like a Saint? St. Supéry?
St. Huberts?
St. Julien?
In descending order …
@winedavid49
i will endeavor to make a strong attempt to give a clue.
@Winedavid49
Dry Creek Vineyard Endeavour Cabernet Sauvignon?
@Winedavid49
L’Aventure?
@Winedavid49
Center of Effort?
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
Well done!
Happy Turkey Day!
@winedavid49, we can haz clue?
Acción de gracias!
@Winedavid49
Vino Noceto? Or the Cava?
@Winedavid49
Iron Horse Gratitude
@Winedavid49
I’m going to go a different route because I’m bored and eating cheesecake straight from the pan…though I love Chip’s IH guess…
Brooks (thank you) Note Winery
Guess what, it’s gift week!
Starting off BIG.
@Winedavid49 Shit…a magnum of Iron Horse?
A 3L Scott Harvey?
@Winedavid49 it’d be cool if Cathies wines made a showing…
@CorTot @Winedavid49 To my tummy, yes, but not to my wallet.
@CorTot @danandlisa @Winedavid49 Oy, that’d hurt, but only when the credit card bill came.
I wonder if she has any more 2003/2004 like from the old days!
@CorTot @danandlisa @klezman @Winedavid49
How about a CM collaboration with Peter Wellington…
@chefjess @CorTot @danandlisa @Winedavid49 So much dreaming big! I love it!
@CorTot @danandlisa @klezman @Winedavid49
For $35 a bottle, nope I bought them all
I’m going with a port (portly)…
Next up on gift week? A new entry I’m jacked about.
He may be from Modesto, but thankfully his wine’s are not…
@Winedavid49 Thought for a second it might be Ian Brand, but nope. Damn.
@Winedavid49
Gallo?
@karenhynes good guess but no. I’m guessing there will be “lots” of clues.
@Winedavid49
Cameron Hughes
@chipgreen @Winedavid49
Yeah, him!
@chipgreen @karenhynes @Winedavid49
Good call. WD is helping on shipping logistics for de Négoce.
Perhaps a CaseMates branded offer?
Oh Tannenbaum?
There have been a number of PS offers to pull from.
@chipgreen @karenhynes @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Please no CH
@chipgreen @karenhynes @rjquillin @ScottW58 @Winedavid49 He’s from Modesto…but not a winemaker. Although WD didn’t say wines. I think we have a winner. Question is whether it’s the CH label or de Negoce.
@chipgreen @karenhynes @klezman @rjquillin @ScottW58 @Winedavid49 I like Ron’s suggestion that it’ll bear the Casemates holiday label.
@chipgreen @InFrom @karenhynes @klezman @ScottW58 @Winedavid49
No luv from WD however
@chipgreen @InFrom @karenhynes @rjquillin @ScottW58 @Winedavid49 Makes sense. There’s a TON of good juice out there begging for a home. I hope WD has stocked up for the next several years’ worth.
@chipgreen @InFrom @karenhynes @klezman @rjquillin @ScottW58
yea,
But the fires didn’t help.
Well, not a CaseMates, but at least we know the OG’s and can look them up.
Too bad (actually good) I already have three of them and can save $$$, but killer pricing!
@rjquillin Look them up where? By slogging through that WB thread?
That Zin description sure resembles a familar player around these parts, famous for its QPR…
@InFrom Quite a few CT notes already.
I almost hope we don’t have Rats, that will be a lot of work.
@rjquillin Those CT notes are none too encouraging, at least for Cabs ## 30 & 43. The Zin got meh reviews on CT, though if it’s indeed a Ped it’s neither surprising nor alarming to see comments that it needs a few years. Cab #17 is intriguing, both based on CT and what I could glean from WB. PN #24 sounds promising based on CT. Cab #25 might be promising with age, from what I see on CT.
I didn’t get beyond the #17 in my perusal of the WB thread. But based on what my quick reading turned up, not feeling the urge to jump on this one. That could change, though…
@InFrom
Gotta keep in mind all these have been very recently bottled. I’m not used to barrel samples, but likely these are the closest many will get to them.
Time! Like with Pedroncelli, speaking of the Zin…
Go to https://denegociants.com has info, CT links and wine descriptions
Stonehenge scene.
@Winedavid49 Hmmm, concerts?
@WCCWineGirl @Winedavid49 Soda Rock winery is too easy.
@Winedavid49
Weird guess…Banshee Wines?
@danandlisa @Winedavid49 better than a 10
@danandlisa @WCCWineGirl @Winedavid49
Eleven?
@danandlisa @WCCWineGirl @Winedavid49
Eleven Eleven?
@Winedavid49 @WCCWineGirl Moondance Cellars
@Winedavid49
Well, if not Standing Stone (@InFrom’s guess),
Rock Wall Wine Co. Or Castle Rock?
@danandlisa @WCCWineGirl @Winedavid49
Something from Kenwood/Jack London Vineyard?
@danandlisa @karenhynes @WCCWineGirl @Winedavid49 The suspense is killing me! Too bad I’ll never make it to midnight tonight.
@danandlisa @karenhynes @WCCWineGirl @Winedavid49 Gotta be Karen’s guess!
@karenhynes @klezman @WCCWineGirl @Winedavid49 Karen is almost always right. She has mad skills.
@danandlisa @klezman @WCCWineGirl @Winedavid49
I made 4 guesses! Increasing my odds!
@Winedavid49
Druid Hills Wines?
@danandlisa @karenhynes @klezman @WCCWineGirl @Winedavid49
But it likely is your first one!
@danandlisa @klezman @rjquillin @WCCWineGirl @Winedavid49
Really?? WD seems to like the 2nd and 3rd guesses…
Standing Stone? It’s been a while since the Finger Lakes have popped up here.
Clue? Season 7 Episode 3.
@Winedavid49 Kunin phoebe rose
@Winedavid49 Mondavi Maestro
@n8white13 @Winedavid49 You beat me to the punch!
@n8white13 @Winedavid49 he’s got to give you a star for maestro
@Winedavid49
Fleurie is often regarded as the “Queen of Beaujolais” … Henry Fessy Fleurie “Château des Labourons” Beaujolais Cru
Who will become master of their domain?
@Winedavid49
Joy! perhaps, from Iron Horse, or something a bit more pedestrian; Fairy Tale Cuvée
@rjquillin I believe @n8white13 has already got it.
@InFrom @n8white13 @Winedavid49
Think you’re right. Don’t know why I even try, gotten all of one.
@Winedavid49 Wouldn’t that be Season 4, Ep. 11?
@Winedavid49
Mondavi Maestro?
@Winedavid49
BV Maestro?
@karenhynes I saw that, and then I thought, “from Florida??”
@InFrom
Yeah…I removed that guess…it also looks like they never really got off the ground.
@karenhynes
That could be it – a lot more likely than wine hauled in from Jacksonville!!
@Winedavid49 definitely not Kramer!
Doppio tuffo tonight. QPR abounds. One of them reminds me of Sir Alec.
@Winedavid49 We getting CM-branded wine both here and the other site? One of them branded for Obiwan?!
@Winedavid49
One Hope?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Oh yeah, that’s gotta be it with the Mentida on the other site.
@Winedavid49 sister moon wines
@karenhynes great answer. but no. try something else from the portfolio
@Winedavid49
He has quite the portfolio.
The Prisoner?
@Winedavid49
Oliver Twist-(off) ?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 Meiomi-wan Kenobi?
@Winedavid49 Can we please have a clue?
Bah, it didn’t take.
let’s try this again.
Family Farming, Four Generations.
@Winedavid49
St. Julien?
Or
Hanson Vineyards
Or
Brutocao Cellars?
Or Leoni Farms (6 generations)
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 Please don’t let it be Leoni. I really have no room.
@Winedavid49
Or did you finally get Cooper Vineyards from the last RPM Tour?
@Winedavid49
Foppiano
@MarkDaSpark
Only 5 guesses?
@chipgreen @MarkDaSpark This way sparky will be right!
I hope it’s Cooper, actually. That’d be great. Although I don’t have room, so maybe I should hope for St. Julien cream sherry or something like that where I have no interest. (Or am I mixing them up with the Finger Lakes winery I’m forgetting the name of?)
@chipgreen @klezman @MarkDaSpark Cooper never returned my call. was so bummed.
@klezman
Hunt Country?
@klezman @rjquillin
Yes, that’s the one. I almost opened a Late Harvest Vignoles from them the other day…
@klezman @rjquillin
Was going to include them, but figured I already had a lot.
Luckily, third guess was the charm!
@Winedavid49 Tick Tock… Tick Tock…
@danandlisa damn, my days are messed up this week. my bad. clue? running again with a new vintage, for stocking stuffers!
@Winedavid49 Hopefully it is not one of my old or new favorites as my hallways and stockings are full.
@danandlisa @Winedavid49 Stocking stuffers suggests little bottles. Maybe the recently cited Hunt Country?
@danandlisa @Winedavid49
WineSmith Cellars Dessert Wines?
@Winedavid49
Better yet, 2014 Pedroncelli Port & Wine Lover’s Chocolate !!!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
That does seem to be an annual offer, but we’ve sure had our share of Pedroncelli lately.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 You know I cannot resist. Please wait till the new year.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
@danandlisa @Winedavid49
LOL. Literally “Stocking Stuffer”
@WineDavid49
for those who have been around a while, this wine has a Peter and David connection.
@Winedavid49 Denier-Handal vineyards.
@CorTot @Winedavid49
Gotta be! Nice!
@Winedavid49 yep. Perhaps sagrantino for something different.
@CorTot @Winedavid49
@WineDavid49
@MarkDaSpark some folks liked this, some not so much. great price and more gifts!!
@Winedavid49
Could you narrow it down a smidge?
Because that’s just about every offer!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 I had the same thoughts.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 The only wine that comes to mind is last Christmas’s offer. Anyone singing George now, because I am.
@Winedavid49
Pedroncelli Port and Chocolate?
Or
Cheer From Over Here Holiday Red Wine Blend Casemate Cellars (from Pedroncelli)
@MarkDaSpark who doesn’t like Pedroncelli Port and Chocolate??? That’s nonsense.
@Twich22. There are * shudder * those who don’t like sweet wines. But yes.
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
QPR
@chipgreen
Ding, ding, ding, ding!
🥳🥳🥳
It’s been a looong time since I was asked if I needed a decanter. Wine gift bags were nice too.
@msten LOL
For those who may follow certain rhythms, you may know what’s coming. particularly since Christmas falls on a shipping day.
@Winedavid49
@Winedavid49
A Wootoff?
@Winedavid49 gruet
@Winedavid49
I was rather thinking/hoping for some IH
@rjquillin I was thinking that was what you were thinking.
@Winedavid49 Gruet was offered on 12/16/2019, while IH was offered 12/25/2019. I guess either could fall into the rhythm.
@Winedavid49
Little Vineyards Band Blend
@msten @Winedavid49
Well done!
I can wait for my
@Winedavid49
We can haz clue?
Darn, sorry for the delay. I must have left defenses down.
@Winedavid49
Gård Vintners ?
@Winedavid49
Vigilance
@Winedavid49
one of these wines , according to my Treasury contact, was the wine that kept things going during prohibition. fortify that!
@Winedavid49
Beringer
Hoping for Concannon or Wente though.
(Still others)
@MarkDaSpark Fortified?
@Winedavid49
Concannon?
@karenhynes A PS Port? Color me interested!
@karenhynes @MarkDaSpark Ah, I see Wente also makes a Port. Sparky may have those two covered. I don’t see a fortified wine on Berinter’s site though.
@Winedavid49
Beringer Vineyards Nightingale would be a sweet treat.
@rjquillin @Winedavid49
I still have my vertical from the '14 tour. Don’t think that one is fortified.
@karenhynes @Winedavid49 @InFrom
Concannon has a nice PS Port and a fortified White, as does Wente.
Thought someone else would mention Beaulieu (Wente sold grapes to them) … they would have been my 4th choice, and I didn’t want to hog all the good ones. Should have known it would be them.
A port would certainly be welcomed.
@Winedavid49
i bet paul revere would like this bubbly.
@Winedavid49
Iron Horse!
@MarkDaSpark gosh that is a better answer , but no.
@Winedavid49
Sterling?
@karenhynes @Winedavid49
I should have chosen “Edit” instead, haha.
Yes, Sterling! I just remembered he was a silversmith, duh. Deleted my obscure (yet topical) “Freedom Bubbles” guess to say “Sterling” but you beat me to it!
@chipgreen @karenhynes @Winedavid49 I went down a Silversmith rabbit hole.
@winedavid49
We can haz clue?
Another offer from a (new) favorite. and no, their estate is not a town in Yorkshire England.
@Winedavid49 Halcon
@Winedavid49 kings estate
@Winedavid49
Almost guessed Peterson because of the Bradford Mountain fruit but didn’t think the clue would refer to a vineyard. Oh well…
York creek
@SippinSantiagos
That would be an interesting addition.
Just finished an '06 CS Track bottle I opened last week.
What a GO score those were.
@Winedavid49
probably my favorite of this varietal.
here’s some of the appellations: 59% Les Collines, 19% Goff,
@Winedavid49 Amavi Semillon
@klezman @Winedavid49
If so that’s a really nice wine!
@ScottW58 @Winedavid49 don’t tell me that…oy
Waiting on @Winedavid49 and Santa!
Happy Christmas Eve!
Cathy said no this year, but she said yes! I hope you find it as festive as I do.
Love this place.
@Winedavid49
no,yes?
Well that’s a sucky clue
@ScottW58 @Winedavid49
Cathy said no, Joy said yes?? Iron Horse??
@karenhynes
You are clearly much smarter than me
@Winedavid49 Helios?
Or does Cathy consult at another winery you’ve snagged? Or some old York Creek find its way to you in large format?
Or Karen’s guess
@klezman @Winedavid49
Note the like from WD to Karen
@klezman @Winedavid49 @ScottW58 @karenhynes Cathy Corison doing a festive casemate labelled wine? No but yes?
@klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Hide your credit cards!
@karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49
equally true given a Cathy offer
@klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Indeed!
@karenhynes @ScottW58 @Winedavid49
Her Joy! Sparkling?
@karenhynes @MarkDaSpark @ScottW58 @Winedavid49
Hopefully for New Year?
That would be great exit for an otherwise totally sucky 2020
@karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49
Actually, this was quite a relief, from what it could have been.
@klezman @rjquillin @Winedavid49
Yeah…lovely wine, for sure, but I have absolutely no need for magnums of pretty much anything. Hmmmm…
@karenhynes @klezman @Winedavid49
Well, if I don’t get around to them, someone will enjoy…
@karenhynes @rjquillin @Winedavid49 if it was the Q block or something for that price is be in without thinking. The regular Pinot I’m not as sure about, what with not needing magnums and such. Or more wine at all.
Feliz navidad …
@Winedavid49
I’m awful at guessing the offers, but I just wanted to say I hope you’re having a wonderful Christmas and enjoying time with family/loved ones. Thanks for all that you do!!!
@Winedavid49 Spaniard
@msten @Winedavid49
Sí. Sounds like El Jefe may be in da house!
@karenhynes @msten @Winedavid49 Mixed case please. Mine has long gone disappeared.
@danandlisa @karenhynes @msten @Winedavid49 Oh damn, that’d be nice. Maybe he’ll include some Chicken Bubbles!
@kawichris650 thanks. And el Jeffe has been distant of late the clue was more general.
@Winedavid49 You know how to break my heart and save my wallet.
@kawichris650 @Winedavid49 another Spanish import, then?
Hmmmm, Tempranillo based blend ?
More general, eh??
Garnacha?
Rioja?
Happy Holidays!
This is the start of a week of repeats that are the best values of the year (ok Pedroncelli and Scott Harvey notwithstanding).
First up, Think Elvis Christmas special.
@Winedavid49 fun!
I don’t know about the clue, but I can think about what I thought the best deals of the year were:
Kings estate is always good value
Mentida was some of the best qpr I can remember
Winesmith is always amazing value
Y. Rousseau musketeer was really good.
The Louis latour red was awesome but I doubt there are any bottles left.
Two Jake’s is always great
Those would be my picks. But almost everything on this site is a good deal so…
POPSOCKETS! SPA KITS! POLLY POCKETS! AWESOME!
@Winedavid49 Yeah, looked at Wiki about that Elvis special and I have no idea. But I would like to mention that this weekend marked the end of my supply of Amrita, and my .375s of Noceto Sangio. Just sayin.
@InFrom @Winedavid49
Total long shot here…
There’s a song on the Elvis Christmas Special album titled “If Every Day Was Like Christmas”. The Christmas offers have historically been bubbles (Gruet, Iron Horse), the recent still Iron Horse, or Corison back at the old site. I can’t think of what some of the older ones may have been. All are pretty unlikely…but a girl can dream!!!
@Winedavid49
If not King Estates, then Stillman Brown
@Winedavid49. Since WD hasn’t “liked” anything yet …
Well, he sang Blue Christmas …
1000 Stories Batch Blue Carignan
Or
Marvelous Blue South African Red Blend
King Estates
@msten. @twitch22 beat you by 6 minutes
@MarkDaSpark @msten actually he beat me!
@msten @Twich22
You’re right! Keep forgetting the weird timestamp.
@Winedavid49
We can haz clue?
Doubling up tonight on what very well be the best pair of Washington red deals this year.
@Winedavid49
Gård Vintners ?
or
Substance Vineyard Collection ?
@Winedavid49
Amavi?
@Winedavid49
and/or their big sister, Pepper Bridge?
@Winedavid49 well done as substance was a duo offer, relating well with “doubling up on pair” in clue.
@msten @Winedavid49 There was also the Waterbrook 90+ point reserve cab and merlot deal. Very easily could be the deal being referred to. Either that or the substance duo. Both are excellent washington wineries and wines.
Also there was a 2013 2014 cougar crest reserve syrah deal. Another good washington option.
just realized im a full 24 hours late to the party
Days of the week stop meaning as much when working from home every day and everything around you is shut down.
@Winedavid49
LOL. … less than a minute after WD posted the clue!
So I guess tomorrow we’ll get a 2021 Clue thread?
@Winedavid49. We can haz clue?
@MarkDaSpark Since tonight’s offer is the first 2021 offer, I think that thread should get started now, eh?
@klezman
And yet @Winedavid49 (or anyone else for that matter) hasn’t created it.
And I assumed he would create a new thread with his clue, as he did last year.
@MarkDaSpark
If WD doesn’t start a new thread, you’re probably the next best person to do so.
@klezman @MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49
It took some prompting, but looks like the deed has been done. Yea!
@MarkDaSpark @Winedavid49 All fine assumptions!
I didn’t even mean to suggest that you should start it, Sparky, although I see how you could have read it that way.