For you to be interested in a Napa cab blend it must be well-made for you to dismiss it on vintage grounds. Folks, this is high praise from rpm!
So might it be like a Napa Wellington Victory without the Merlot?
For you to be interested in a Napa cab blend it must be well-made for you to dismiss it on vintage grounds. Folks, this is high praise from rpm!
So might it be like a Napa Wellington Victory without the Merlot?
Has woot forgotten about white wines???
Canât find this one on the Turnbull website, so I canât get a direct comparison for pricing.
Um, yesterday was Rieslings. Last Wednesday was a white sparkler. Sep 28 gave us Sauvignon Blanc, and Sep 22 during the wootoff gave us Vermentino and SB/Chardonnay packs, and Sep 20 was the Hahn whites, with the Morgan whites on Sep 10. So in the past month, weâve seen 6 different white offers. The most recent, again, being yesterday.
So no. Woot has not forgotten about white wines.
Yeah, they seem to have everything from $40 Cabs to $100 Cabs. It would be nice to know the original retail on this one.
I think 2006 has more secondary complexity than 07. 07 is a bit juicy vintagewise but there is great purity of fruit. Toss up of what you care for in a cab.
Turnbull is one my favorite but I really wouldnât mind the lower ends
A couple interesting tidbits for those too lazy to follow the links provided by NightGhost.
Weitz Vineyard
The gem of Turnbullâs holdings, however, are the 60 acres called the Weitz Vineyard. It lies on extremely rugged and sloping soil on the plateau above the Silverado Trail that contains Phelpsâ Backus Vineyard, Vine Cliff, Dalla Valle and Screaming Eagle. Thatâs right: Above them. From this site you look down on some of the most famous land in all of Napa Valley, hence the world. The vines here have to struggle to grow among boulders and stones, plus the shallow soil remaining as the rest long ago washed down the hill.
Turnbull grows all five popular red Bordeaux wine varietals here; they produce wines exhibiting intense color and flavor.
The 2000 Cabernet Sauvignon (13,000, $35) is the wineryâs largest production wine, and it produces two luxury Bordeaux wines, the 2000 Weitz Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (418 six-pack cases, $75) and 2000 Red Wine (1540 six-bottle cases, $75), a blend of 609 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 15 percent Petite Verdot, 10 percent Cabernet Franc, 4 percent Malbec and 2 percent Merlot, Not surprisingly, these two are killer wines and are naturally the wineryâs pride and joy.
hmm a bit⌠catty?
I just canât stand when people complain about something when itâs obvious that what they are complaining about is totally invalid.
Like saying whereâs the whites when there was one the day before.
For the spreadsheets, I always use the winery-direct price, as that is standard for whoever is trying to buy it. Wine shops canât always ship to the same places the winery (and thus woot) can, and often there are random sales at wine shops (bin ends?) that make it an unfair comparison.
Well, if WD is like the girl in â50 First Dates,â maybe he forgot about the whites.
Hi, Bob from Turnbull here. This is a separate wine, made from the Weitz vienyard, primarily. Weitz has since been renamed to Leopoldina. it sits at approx 2000 feet above the valley floor on the Oakville bench with Dalla Valle and Phelps Backus as neighbors. there is some fruit from our Fortuna vineyard, in Oakville and Amoenus vineyard in Calistoga. The wine is a beauty and was selected and vinted to be a $100 bottle at the winery. A little of this wine went to the East Coast for sale, but other than that, it has almost no distribution and has been sold winery only.
Turnbull is one of my favorite wineries. I wish it were still affordable but I am happy their success is recognized. I have never had a bad bottle of Turnbull. Hmm one for the holidays and one to ageâŚMust control my impulses. Oh well itâs only my daughters college fund.
I see the 2006 Leopoldina on your website as $90/bottle, but the blend appears to be different. Is this a completely different bottling then?
Based on your statement above, I will create our comparison spreadsheet with this wineâs retail price set at $100. Granted, I know others have been pointing out the local-ish prices at significantly less than that, but I would guess, based on the above statement, that you (the winery) are trying to clear out the inventory of this with the Weitz label on it, and thus we all (not just woot) get fantastic savings?
UPS Ground for a 4 lb. box to ship from Sonoma, CA to Michigan = 14.49 USD
Woot charges $5.00 for shipping.
connect the dots
Common sense: itâs hard to find.
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Absolutely incredible! Over 60% savings!
Click the link above for full discount details, links, etc.
Jim,
Great questions. There is an actually difference between the two Cabernets. The Weitz Cabernet is sourced from our 3 top Estate Vineyards, which includes 2 vineyards in Oakville and our other estate vineyard in Calistoga. The blend is slightly different with more Cabernet and we age it a little longer (20 months) in French oak.