A Woot favorite, but the CT notes (sparse as they are) are rather unflattering. Notes on the 2007 are more numerous but similarly underwhelming. Anyone want to explain the appeal to me?
I think we got “lucky” with getting the 2008 last year shortly after its release. Typically wine.woot gets last year’s Poizin (which, IMHO, works out better).
The 2007 is probably only starting to calm down now. I expect labrat notes this week to bemoan the alcoholic nose and heat of the wine on the palate.
Poizin was one of the early post-beta offerings that mixed good wine with a catchy package and really good people in terms of forum participation. Offering it in time for Halowe’en wasn’t a bad plan either.
I still reuse the bottles for running a bottle or two of homebrew off the keg when I’m going to a party and just swig beer out the Poizin bottle.
I don’t think so - in Oct '06 I purchased the '05 (my very first wine woot!), '07 the '06 etc… I see last Oct '09 we were offered the '07 and then the '08 in Feb? Oh well, I have 2 '08’s somewhere here and I’ll just wait for the '09’s to add to my vertical. blah
Sigh…and I just bought these from that spying site a couple months ago at a few dollars more per bottle. Haven’t opened any of them yet though so can’t chime in as to how these compare to previous vintages.