PINOT NOIR IS EVERY WINEMAKERâS HOLY GRAIL. There is no such thing as a mediocre Pinot Noirâthere is good or there is badâno middle ground. I have always prided myself on making it well, and on the odd occasion when it wasnât good, I tried to have the good sense to disown it quickly and quietly. So, making a Pinot Noir is a statement about superlativesâthe best of the best; it is about finding beauty and warmth all in one place.
The grapes for this wonderful wine came from Ken Nerloveâs vineyard (Ken is a dear friend) high up on the side of Elkhorn Peak in the very coolest part of Jameson Canyon (1/2 mile east of Carneros). If grapes could see, they would have known that they were from the vineyard with the best view in the Napa ValleyâŠthe whole San Francisco Bay. Grapes canât see, but being in such a direct path to the Bayâs cool breezes is the exact thing needed to grow fabulously complex and fruity Pinot Noir.
The grapes were night-harvested, so they showed up at the winery ice cold. They were destemmed â but not crushed â into half-ton fermentation tanks. Yeast started to grow as they warmed over the next few days. We âpunched downâ the must by hand five times a day for about 2 weeks, then drained off the free-run and sent the wine directly to barrel. Malolactic fermentation took all winter to complete and the wine was racked only twice from barrel to barrel. Then into the bottle it went. Simplicity is what Pinot Noir needs to maintain its complexity. Our cellar treatment was simple and this wine is indeed very complex! Blackberry, rose and blueberry are the most dominant notes, with flavors of oak and a rich mouth feel. I hope you enjoy this wine.
Specs
Vintage: 2019
Varietal: 100% Pinot Noir
Appellation: Napa Valley, Jameson Canyon âRâ clone taken from cuttings out of our original Cuttings Wharf - Vineyard by vineyard owner, Ken Nerlove
Barrel Aging: 100% one and two-year-old French Oak, 12 months
Alcohol: 13.7%
pH: 3.60
Total Acidity: 6.0 g/l
Production: 216 cases
2019 Kent Rasmussen Cabernet Sauvignon
Tasting Notes
The 2019 KRW Cabernet Sauvignon is a blend of wines from two vineyards in my two favorite Napa Valley appellations - Rutherford and Coombsville. Each has a distinctive character: Rutherfordâs fruit and complexity, and Coombsvilleâs amazing brambly structure. The combination produces a deep, luscious wine brimming with rich fruit and cedar flavors. It is without question, one of the finest vintages of Cabernet we have made. Each lot was fermented and barreled separately, then after about nine months blended together to age and mellow in each otherâs company. The fermentation of each lot was slightly different, but in general, the grapes were gently picked and crushed, and then fermented in small vats. Natural yeast was allowed to grow. Malolactic fermentation was encouraged to finish in the barrel.
On the palate, this wine offers the quintessential Cabernet panoply of flavors: amazingly deep and complex layers of black currant, black cherry, plum, and dark chocolate, all supported by a tannic foundation that will allow it to stand up to savory grilled meats, like well-spiced tri-tip or a fat-marbled ribeye steak. To be quite honest, it tastes awfully good all on its own â unlike many of its more aggressive and rough-edged brethren. I hope you enjoy this wine.
Specs
Vintage: 2019
Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon
Appellation: Napa Valley (51% Rutherford, Bella Oaks Lane & 49% Coombsville, Olive Hill Lane
Barrel Aging: 100% one and two-year-old French Oak, 14 months
Kent Rasmussen Winery was started in 1986 by Kent and his wife Celia Ramsay. They have been famous for their stellar Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and Sauvignon Blanc under the Kent Rasmussen Winery label, but also for the many interesting varietal wines they made under the Ramsay label.
Kent and Celia have retired this year (2023)! Both are proud of their 44 years of making wine.
Kent Rasmussen and wife, Celia Ramsay, ran the family winery they started in 1986 at their beautiful facility in St. Helena. Unlike most wineries in the Napa Valley, they never wanted to have a public presence in the form of a tasting room, but sold their wines in Bay Area & California restaurants & stores, and in 28 other states. Famous for the Kent Rasmussen and Ramsay brand wines, and best known for making âpurely poetic Pinot Noirâ, the couple raised their family of four on the Silverado Trail property.
The kids grew up and Kent and Celia realized they longed for a more urban life. They moved their winemaking operations to share another family-run facility owned by their long-time friend, Stefano Migotto in Napa. Then they bought a home in Berkeley. With a very reasonable reverse commute to Napa, Kent was happy to be back in the southern end of the Napa Valley, especially since his original winemaking start was in the Napa-Carneros.
Since its modest beginnings in a garage in 1986, the Kent Rasmussen Winery evolved as its ownersâ lives changed. It was one of the most important Pinot Noir producers in California.
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This is Kent Rasmussen writing. It has been a long time since we have presented an offering and I am excited to be back.
This offering is for two of my favorite wines: 2019 KRW Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and 2019 KRW Napa Valley Pinot Noir. These are both wonderful wines that I made in a project with my son and daughter at a small winery we had in Berkeley. (I finally got tired of Berkeley politics and moved back to Napa.âthus the word âhadâ.). Both were small lots - about 200 cases each and were entirely made using the âold-fashionedâ methods we used in the 1980sâŠhand punch down, minimal pumping (it is easy to create gravity flow with small tanks and a forklift) etc.
The grapes for the CS are equal halves from Rutherford and Combsville. The PN is equal halves from Carneros - Cuttings Wharf Road and Jamison Canyon. All âA-1â vineyards!!!
These wines really never got into commercial distribution as there was so little of them. They largely went out to our mailing-list and friends. I really like both winesâso we have had a whole lot of them at home too.
@KRWINE So nice to see you here, Kent! Congrats on your retirement! The tasting we did at the winery on the RPM Tour quite some years ago was epic. Would love to hear your thoughts on how these two wines will age.
@KRWINE Congrats on your retirement I guess you get to enjoy the fruits of your labor by raiding the cellar.
Sounds like good stuff and my kids never had your wine. Iâll out one and wine write up in the Christmas box of wine I give them.
@KRWINE Thanks for that, Kent. My wife and I have never been disappointed by any of your offerings from the old site and were one of the first wines to expand our horizons a bit. We still have a bottle of the âportâ we are saving for my retirement.
@klezman Hi SorryâŠno library clean-out. I have never been one for keeping much in the way of a library. I have less than a case of each of the PNs I have made back to 1979, but otherwise donât keep anything else. Sometimes I wish I had kept moreâŠbut too late now.
2019 Napa Valley Pinot Noir
As always, it was a delight to get the Golden Ticket Email from Alice, followed up almost immediately by the UPS notice of a shipment on its way. Life is good!
I received the shipment on Tuesday evening, for a Thursday night release, so plenty of time to arrange menus for an adequate pairing.
Pinot NoirâŠ. From CaliforniaâŠâŠ Full disclosure: (1) I donât frequently purchase a PN, preferring the heftier red varietals, and 2) when I do (at Thanksgiving only), itâs usually an Oregon favorite â where at a competition a few years back a $60 bottle beat out French Pinots priced at over $300! Go USA!! Not to say that Pinots are bad, just not within my wheelhouse. But I can certainly put my experiences and tasting skills to work to help guide my fellow Casemates to a purchasing decision. Rough job, but somebodyâs got to do it!
So, we settled on a Thursday dinner menu to pair, as Tuesday was too soon, and Wednesday was already planned (the DW is quite methodical in menu selection!). We landed on pork chops in a mustard cream sauce, which should make for an interesting duo.
ActuallyâŠ. I must confess â I snuck in a pop-and-pour peek on Wednesday, just to see how it would show off right out of the bottle. Itâs a classic Pinot ruby color â
âŠwith medium translucency, and continuity in color. Not much in legs, which was expected from the 13.5% ABV. Some aggressive swirling in the glass to help open it up a bit, then sniffâŠ.
On the nose is (again) the classic Pinot cherry fragrance â not black cherry, more like Rainer, with some slight floral notes as well. More swirling, a sipâŠ
On the palate, cherry remains the strongest flavor, some leather creeps in, slight minerality (wet stone?) Flavors are a bit tight and muted; finish is a bit acidic, but not astringent. Iâm thinking the dinner Thursday will be a perfect match. To the fridge it goes till then!
Okay, on to Thursday â reopening the bottle and pouring two glasses, the cherry is still pronounced, adding some slight raspberry and possibly cassis (muted). Leather and mineral are still present, and the acidic âbiteâ on the finished is subdued as well. Itâs taken a softer, more approachable wine this second day, well balanced with the right touch of oak. Itâs an easy drinking wine, and a near-perfect pair with the chops â just enough acid to balance the cream and fat, and with a long, smooth finish.
Some online research afterwards yielded little. I did see one article suggesting that Kent Rasmussen Winery was one of the best producers of PN in California. I would agree that this was a classic, elegant PN offering, deserving your interest and purchase, if youâre into Pinot. Further, Production and Sales are under the Ramsay label, along with a Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
There you have it! I trust this will be of benefit to you as you stuff your cellars! Cheers!!
2019 Kent Rasmussen Winery Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley
I was delighted, as always, to get the UPS ship notice followed by an email from Alice. I was even more delighted to open up the box to see the Kent Rasmussen Winery label looking at me - a label with plenty of fond associations but without much wine in my cellar. Our stop there on the 2012 RPM Tour was brilliant, tasting Pinots all the way back to Kentâs original vintage.
On to this wine, though! Unfortunately, the wine got a little heated in transit - my Thermapen said it was about 89 degrees on the surface of the bottle when it arrived. Turns out a single bottle in styro doesnât have enough thermal mass to withstand a day in a UPS truck. Thankfully, the bottle didnât leak nor did the contents seem any worse for the wear.
Short version - yum. Seriously yummy and complex Cabernet. And I donât usually like young wines. Even molarchae liked it after it had been open a while, and young Cab is so not her thing.
Longer version:
On opening it had the expected super-fruity and sappy aromas that I tend to not enjoy in a young wine. Unlike most young wines, though, it didnât stay that way. After a few minutes of air I was getting aromas of plums, hints of vanilla and oak, some cocoa, and maybe cassis. The fruit was front and centre, of course, but had come into balance with everything else. Colour was bright purple, as you might expect from a young Cab.
First sips: I was surprised at how supple the wine was. Not a harsh tannin anywhere in sight. Maybe this is the Pinot winemakerâs influence on Cabernet? But although I could taste the oak somewhat, it was still not harsh nor was there any tannin that was even a tiny bit out of place. Flavours included red fruits, that plum again, maybe some black tea, a hint of dust, and a hint of something maybe a bit floral.
Throughout the evening I thought the wine got better and better. It kept opening up to reveal more layers of interesting flavours and aromas. Sometimes I could have sworn it was pure raspberry while at others it was dusty chocolate. The oak influence was present the entire time, but not distracting.
Interestingly, as the wine continued to breathe, we never got to a point where the tannins started to evolve in a way that made them harsh. I donât know what sort of alchemy that is, but Iâve never experienced it in a young Cab like this before.
We prepared for the Cab with smoked beef short ribs, and the pairing was very successful, with the beef enhancing the wine and vice versa. Notably, this wine went really well both with the food and on its own.
Iâd planned on saving some for tomorrow to see how it would age, but it turned out this was a super yummy wine that didnât want us to leave any behind. So we didnât.
I think it has enough structure to age a bit, but itâs hard to tell with everything being so polished. But having tasted 30+ year old Pinot Noir from Kent I am confident this wine will improve for at least a decade.
How much more are you saving by buying a full case?
(Note: tax and shipping are not included in savings calculations).
Kent Rasmussen Napa Valley Mixed Reds - $40 = 13.32%
Great to see a KR offering, thatâs an auto-buy for me, especially if he is retiring! In for a case. Have always enjoyed his wines over the years, especially some of the âEsotericaâ going back to WW days.
@rjquillin I donât want to be kicked out of the house for ordering a whole case of wine! But Iâm good - found coworkers to take some of the excess Pinot since I donât need 9 of them.
My UC Davis chum, Kent has always been among my favorite winemakers. I literally have never had anything from him that wasnât stellar. Considering their provenance and his talents, this is clearly a rediculously underpriced auto-buy. greasy-heartsick-owner
Youâre killing me here with all these great offers! This is my 3rd case purchase since 7/23!!! My first purchase here on Casemates was the 2016 Esoterica cab & Pinot mixed case on January 19, 2018 (and I bought another case on a later offer of the same). So some really fond memories. That 2016 Esoterica Pinot made me really start falling in love with good wine (it was SO much better than typical grocery store wines). CellarTracker tells me that I still have some of those, so Iâll have to open one soon and see how they are doing. In for a case here!
/giphy laborious-implicit-jar
Kent and I went to the same high school, Ponderosa in Shingle Springs in the Sierra Foothills. I have always loved his wines and bought them when on Casemates/Winewoot. Iâm in.
Cheers,
Scott
Boo hoo! Cases are sold out? Guess Iâll have to do a couple two-packs. Kent so nice to see your wine on Casemates! If youâre still peeking in, I have this in my stash⊠2006 Esoterica North Coast Late Harvest Viognier. Cheers!
Very excited to get the wine. We visited Napa way back in 2006 and did a tour of a few âoff the gridâ wineries. A friend brought us to Kent and Celiaâs winery, which really didnât do tours. To our surprise, Kent saw us walking the driveway and invited us in his house to taste some wines and meet Celia. What a great experience! They could not have been nicer and more hospitableâŠ.needless to say, we fell in love with the Pinot - which was not hard to do. So - really happy (and fortunate) to see Kentâs wine on here. Totally randomâŠ.and awesome!
Itâs a killer blend from the Napa Valley thatâs got all those delicious flavors mixing and mingling, creating a party for your taste buds! If youâre up for some tasty reds, give it a shot, and I guarantee you wonât be disappointed!
My case just arrived and I popped a Pinot in the fridge to cool down and opened with dinner. Fantastic wine, what a finish! The only other Esoterica wines I have left are one each of a 2007 and 2008 Petit Sirah. Holding those maybe forever.
2019 Kent Rasmussen Pinot Noir
Tasting Notes
Specs
2019 Kent Rasmussen Cabernet Sauvignon
Tasting Notes
Specs
Whatâs Included
2-bottles:
Case:
Price Comparison
Not for sale online, $480/case MSRP
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Kent Rasmussen Napa Valley Mixed Reds
2 bottles for $49.99 $25/bottle + $4/bottle shipping
Case of 12 for $259.99 $21.67/bottle + $1/bottle shipping
2019 Pinot Noir
2019 Cabernet Sauvignon
There will be no fomo on this offer.
@rjquillin The Cab is good! But Iâm annoyed the case is 9/3 and not 6/6.
@klezman @rjquillin or 8/4
@klezman @losthighwayz @rjquillin Yes, 6 and 6 would be better. Darn.
@danandlisa @klezman @losthighwayz
meh, just buy two
@klezman Good thing you pointed this out. I will just buy 2x2.
@danandlisa @klezman @losthighwayz @rjquillin
I would much rather just have the Pinot.
@ScottW58 you want some of the Pinot and Iâll take the rest of a case?
@klezman @rjquillin Thanks for pointing that out, I missed it. I too would have preferred the 6/6 allocation.
@klezman
Thanks but not this time, not my favorite time of the year to receive wine.
Hi all
This is Kent Rasmussen writing. It has been a long time since we have presented an offering and I am excited to be back.
This offering is for two of my favorite wines: 2019 KRW Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and 2019 KRW Napa Valley Pinot Noir. These are both wonderful wines that I made in a project with my son and daughter at a small winery we had in Berkeley. (I finally got tired of Berkeley politics and moved back to Napa.âthus the word âhadâ.). Both were small lots - about 200 cases each and were entirely made using the âold-fashionedâ methods we used in the 1980sâŠhand punch down, minimal pumping (it is easy to create gravity flow with small tanks and a forklift) etc.
The grapes for the CS are equal halves from Rutherford and Combsville. The PN is equal halves from Carneros - Cuttings Wharf Road and Jamison Canyon. All âA-1â vineyards!!!
These wines really never got into commercial distribution as there was so little of them. They largely went out to our mailing-list and friends. I really like both winesâso we have had a whole lot of them at home too.
I think that you canât go wrong with these.
All the best, Kent
@KRWINE So nice to see you here, Kent! Congrats on your retirement! The tasting we did at the winery on the RPM Tour quite some years ago was epic. Would love to hear your thoughts on how these two wines will age.
@KRWINE Congrats on your retirement I guess you get to enjoy the fruits of your labor by raiding the cellar.
Sounds like good stuff and my kids never had your wine. Iâll out one and wine write up in the Christmas box of wine I give them.
@KRWINE Thanks for that, Kent. My wife and I have never been disappointed by any of your offerings from the old site and were one of the first wines to expand our horizons a bit. We still have a bottle of the âportâ we are saving for my retirement.
@klezman
Hi
Great to hear from you!
No worries about ageablity on these. I think the pn will peak in about 6 years. The CS in about 8. Both will still taste nice through 2030+.
Kent
@KRWINE excellent
Any chance weâre going to see a library clean out offer?
@klezman Hi SorryâŠno library clean-out. I have never been one for keeping much in the way of a library. I have less than a case of each of the PNs I have made back to 1979, but otherwise donât keep anything else. Sometimes I wish I had kept moreâŠbut too late now.
2019 Napa Valley Pinot Noir
As always, it was a delight to get the Golden Ticket Email from Alice, followed up almost immediately by the UPS notice of a shipment on its way. Life is good!
I received the shipment on Tuesday evening, for a Thursday night release, so plenty of time to arrange menus for an adequate pairing.
Pinot NoirâŠ. From CaliforniaâŠâŠ Full disclosure: (1) I donât frequently purchase a PN, preferring the heftier red varietals, and 2) when I do (at Thanksgiving only), itâs usually an Oregon favorite â where at a competition a few years back a $60 bottle beat out French Pinots priced at over $300! Go USA!! Not to say that Pinots are bad, just not within my wheelhouse. But I can certainly put my experiences and tasting skills to work to help guide my fellow Casemates to a purchasing decision. Rough job, but somebodyâs got to do it!
So, we settled on a Thursday dinner menu to pair, as Tuesday was too soon, and Wednesday was already planned (the DW is quite methodical in menu selection!). We landed on pork chops in a mustard cream sauce, which should make for an interesting duo.
ActuallyâŠ. I must confess â I snuck in a pop-and-pour peek on Wednesday, just to see how it would show off right out of the bottle. Itâs a classic Pinot ruby color â
âŠwith medium translucency, and continuity in color. Not much in legs, which was expected from the 13.5% ABV. Some aggressive swirling in the glass to help open it up a bit, then sniffâŠ.
On the nose is (again) the classic Pinot cherry fragrance â not black cherry, more like Rainer, with some slight floral notes as well. More swirling, a sipâŠ
On the palate, cherry remains the strongest flavor, some leather creeps in, slight minerality (wet stone?) Flavors are a bit tight and muted; finish is a bit acidic, but not astringent. Iâm thinking the dinner Thursday will be a perfect match. To the fridge it goes till then!
Okay, on to Thursday â reopening the bottle and pouring two glasses, the cherry is still pronounced, adding some slight raspberry and possibly cassis (muted). Leather and mineral are still present, and the acidic âbiteâ on the finished is subdued as well. Itâs taken a softer, more approachable wine this second day, well balanced with the right touch of oak. Itâs an easy drinking wine, and a near-perfect pair with the chops â just enough acid to balance the cream and fat, and with a long, smooth finish.
Some online research afterwards yielded little. I did see one article suggesting that Kent Rasmussen Winery was one of the best producers of PN in California. I would agree that this was a classic, elegant PN offering, deserving your interest and purchase, if youâre into Pinot. Further, Production and Sales are under the Ramsay label, along with a Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
There you have it! I trust this will be of benefit to you as you stuff your cellars! Cheers!!
@Kraxberger thank you for the rattage.
2019 Kent Rasmussen Winery Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley
I was delighted, as always, to get the UPS ship notice followed by an email from Alice. I was even more delighted to open up the box to see the Kent Rasmussen Winery label looking at me - a label with plenty of fond associations but without much wine in my cellar. Our stop there on the 2012 RPM Tour was brilliant, tasting Pinots all the way back to Kentâs original vintage.
On to this wine, though! Unfortunately, the wine got a little heated in transit - my Thermapen said it was about 89 degrees on the surface of the bottle when it arrived. Turns out a single bottle in styro doesnât have enough thermal mass to withstand a day in a UPS truck. Thankfully, the bottle didnât leak nor did the contents seem any worse for the wear.
Short version - yum. Seriously yummy and complex Cabernet. And I donât usually like young wines. Even molarchae liked it after it had been open a while, and young Cab is so not her thing.
Longer version:
On opening it had the expected super-fruity and sappy aromas that I tend to not enjoy in a young wine. Unlike most young wines, though, it didnât stay that way. After a few minutes of air I was getting aromas of plums, hints of vanilla and oak, some cocoa, and maybe cassis. The fruit was front and centre, of course, but had come into balance with everything else. Colour was bright purple, as you might expect from a young Cab.
First sips: I was surprised at how supple the wine was. Not a harsh tannin anywhere in sight. Maybe this is the Pinot winemakerâs influence on Cabernet? But although I could taste the oak somewhat, it was still not harsh nor was there any tannin that was even a tiny bit out of place. Flavours included red fruits, that plum again, maybe some black tea, a hint of dust, and a hint of something maybe a bit floral.
Throughout the evening I thought the wine got better and better. It kept opening up to reveal more layers of interesting flavours and aromas. Sometimes I could have sworn it was pure raspberry while at others it was dusty chocolate. The oak influence was present the entire time, but not distracting.
Interestingly, as the wine continued to breathe, we never got to a point where the tannins started to evolve in a way that made them harsh. I donât know what sort of alchemy that is, but Iâve never experienced it in a young Cab like this before.
We prepared for the Cab with smoked beef short ribs, and the pairing was very successful, with the beef enhancing the wine and vice versa. Notably, this wine went really well both with the food and on its own.
Iâd planned on saving some for tomorrow to see how it would age, but it turned out this was a super yummy wine that didnât want us to leave any behind. So we didnât.
I think it has enough structure to age a bit, but itâs hard to tell with everything being so polished. But having tasted 30+ year old Pinot Noir from Kent I am confident this wine will improve for at least a decade.
@klezman thanks for the great rattage report
Any offer that includes a tasting note with one of my favorite words, panoply, deserves at least a bit of attention.
@kaolis thanks for pointing that out. going to add âpanoplyâ to my panoply of words.
How much more are you saving by buying a full case?
(Note: tax and shipping are not included in savings calculations).
Kent Rasmussen Napa Valley Mixed Reds - $40 = 13.32%
Great to see a KR offering, thatâs an auto-buy for me, especially if he is retiring! In for a case. Have always enjoyed his wines over the years, especially some of the âEsotericaâ going back to WW days.
Anybody down for a West LA split? The 9/3 breakdown makes this hard, of course.
@klezman What, you donât want the cabs, or the PNâs?
@rjquillin I donât want to be kicked out of the house for ordering a whole case of wine! But Iâm good - found coworkers to take some of the excess Pinot since I donât need 9 of them.
My UC Davis chum, Kent has always been among my favorite winemakers. I literally have never had anything from him that wasnât stellar. Considering their provenance and his talents, this is clearly a rediculously underpriced auto-buy. greasy-heartsick-owner
@winesmith
/giphy greasy-heartsick-owner
Youâre killing me here with all these great offers! This is my 3rd case purchase since 7/23!!! My first purchase here on Casemates was the 2016 Esoterica cab & Pinot mixed case on January 19, 2018 (and I bought another case on a later offer of the same). So some really fond memories. That 2016 Esoterica Pinot made me really start falling in love with good wine (it was SO much better than typical grocery store wines). CellarTracker tells me that I still have some of those, so Iâll have to open one soon and see how they are doing. In for a case here!
/giphy laborious-implicit-jar
This should be an interesting giphy.
/giphy obnoxious-mad-mole
Kent and I went to the same high school, Ponderosa in Shingle Springs in the Sierra Foothills. I have always loved his wines and bought them when on Casemates/Winewoot. Iâm in.
Cheers,
Scott
@ScottHarveyWine what a great back story - thanks for sharing that.
Got some folks at work to help me out with the extra Pinot.
/giphy persuasive-deadly-skunk
Too tempting.
/giphy cunning-scarce-almond
Boo hoo! Cases are sold out? Guess Iâll have to do a couple two-packs. Kent so nice to see your wine on Casemates! If youâre still peeking in, I have this in my stash⊠2006 Esoterica North Coast Late Harvest Viognier. Cheers!
@cynthylee Good to hear from you. Boy o boy I only have 2 bottles of that wine leftâŠit was a fantastic one!!!
@cynthylee @KRWINE Iâve got a few of those too! And some of the Vermelho Forte.
More cases please.
@pete0744 awww, no more cases left and just a few 2 packs available.
@WCCWineGirl
Thatâs good. You saved me from a second to split.
2x2 on the way
/giphy stiff-unpleasant-crate
Re-up cases.
Was able to order two sets of two and then I got a no you canât order another set of two. (sad face). BOGUS!
@jmdavidson1 check your whispersâŠ
@rjquillin Oops. Thanks for the offer. LOL
Congrats to Kent @KRwine
Itâs been awhileâŠ
@rjquillin @KRWINE
So is this the end for you in the wine world, Kent? Or might we see you back here with a couple more offers in the future?
Very excited to get the wine. We visited Napa way back in 2006 and did a tour of a few âoff the gridâ wineries. A friend brought us to Kent and Celiaâs winery, which really didnât do tours. To our surprise, Kent saw us walking the driveway and invited us in his house to taste some wines and meet Celia. What a great experience! They could not have been nicer and more hospitableâŠ.needless to say, we fell in love with the Pinot - which was not hard to do. So - really happy (and fortunate) to see Kentâs wine on here. Totally randomâŠ.and awesome!
POKER! JOKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME!
Anyone purchase a case living close to Sarasota, Fl wanting part with a couple btls of the pinot?
Itâs a killer blend from the Napa Valley thatâs got all those delicious flavors mixing and mingling, creating a party for your taste buds! If youâre up for some tasty reds, give it a shot, and I guarantee you wonât be disappointed!
@sgodblacknet Practicing your ad-writing chops on a pretend sale?
My case just arrived and I popped a Pinot in the fridge to cool down and opened with dinner. Fantastic wine, what a finish! The only other Esoterica wines I have left are one each of a 2007 and 2008 Petit Sirah. Holding those maybe forever.
Anyone else get 6 each of the Pinot and Cabernet? Just a little dissapointed as Iâm more of a Pinot drinker.
@rjmccool59 That would have been a better outcome for some!