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How much does it cost?
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With a name like that, I'm guessing some assmunch is willing to pay over a C Note for it.PSUFAN wrote:Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon 1999 Napa Valley 750ml
How much does it cost?
Uhm...BSmack wrote:[
With a name like that, I'm guessing some assmunch is willing to pay over a C Note for it.
King Crimson wrote:anytime you have a smoke tunnel and it's not Judas Priest in the mid 80's....watch out.
mvscal wrote:France totally kicks ass.
PSUFAN wrote:http://www.screamingeaglewine.com/browsewines.htm
Rack Fu, Zyclone, and Husker4ever, step right up.
Truer words never spoken.88 wrote:My expectations are so high in view of the cost that I am usually disappointed.
King Crimson wrote:anytime you have a smoke tunnel and it's not Judas Priest in the mid 80's....watch out.
mvscal wrote:France totally kicks ass.
88 wrote: Dayum. We agree on something, and it involves wine. Who woodathunkit?
There certainly is. I believe you mentioned having a friend who was a distributor, so I don't know if you have good access to the Columbia Valley stuff, but the "hot weather"(mostly Bordeaux) varieties pretty much grow like a weed there(assuming they can find some water. Different from the Burgundy stuff here, which never requires water once the vines are established). And they do some pretty serious acreage of vinyards there, almost to the point of overproduction. As it is, they tend to flood the market (around here, anyway) with good(depending on winery) Bordeauxs/hot weather stuff(unless fall comes too early in Eastern Washington). My winemaker bud had an opportunity to buy up merlot for just about nothing. Unfortunately, his little tiny outfit had all of their capital tied up elsewhere(like sitting in inventory -- small wineries are rapidly becoming a rough gig in the U&L), so he was unable to come up with enough dough to make it worthwhile. Apparently Duck Pond Cellars did, since I just saw a bottle of merlot with their label on it for $3.99. Freaking $3.99. Can't say for fact, but I believe it was probably from the same source...and for the life of me, I can't remember the name of the outfit that now has the massive (did I mention "massive?") merlot vinyards. They sell what they can, and ferment the rest and sell it bulk. Indiviual wineried oak and finish it themselves. And finished right, the shit ain't too bad, at all. For $3.99. By the time a small outfit gets it in a bottle with a cork in it, and in a case with a lanbel on it, $3.99 reatil isn't going to cut it. There's a definite trend towards larger scale production these days. Napa and Sonoma have enough prestige associated with their appelations that they're not subject to this so much. That, and those vallies tend to produce some of the best fruit on the planet...there is that.There are some very good wines for about $15.
It's good to be me. While you might have to petition somebody, I could pick up the phone and have a bottle on its way within the hour. This would of course be strictly due to gravytraining somebody else's cred, but I could, nonetheless.PSUFAN wrote:Try buying it - you have to petition somebody to have them take your bid.
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Shall I continue?
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