Bonny Doon Vineyards Sangiovese Four - Pack
$43.99 + $7.00 shipping
Condition: Red
Product:
4 Bonny Doon Ca Del Solo 2006 Sangiovese San Benito County
CT link above (good guess to whomever ferreted “Bonny Doon” out of those hints).
What’s that smell?
Not quite cow manure – it’s only from male steer, and sounds something like Penn and Teller would broadcast.
Count me out entirely – of this thread and of this woot (barring any laughable scientific illiteracy like the Benziger folks’ claims about gravity).
How dry is this wine?
Notice the screw tops.
[QUOTE=nallie, post:149, topic:242249]
Sci Fi=Dune =Brigadoon but not Briga so=Bonny Doon?
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Props go to Nallie..hmm, on the fence since I am pretty sangiovese heavy in the cellar with the Noceto…can anyone compare the two?
Dry as a cow horn stuffed with poop and buried till the next full moon 
Nothing wrong with a screw top.
[QUOTE=PetiteSirah, post:3, topic:242463]
What’s that smell?
Not quite cow manure – it’s only from male steer, and sounds something like Penn and Teller would broadcast.
Count me out entirely – of this thread and of this woot (barring any laughable scientific illiteracy like the Benziger folks’ claims about gravity).
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I wonderd how fast someone would pick that up.
I read an article recently in the local fishwrap that talked about the new direction that Bonny Doon was taking, and I remember thinking that if they ever showed up on Wine.Woot (and I thought that very very unlikely), that the forum would be full of it.
Of course, the forum sometimes is full of it anyway…
Not in a box, and no alcohol content. That’s a double negative. 
People have been talking about Bonny Doon for awhile now, and I love a good Sangio. Reasonably priced, to boot. I’ll break hiatus for this. I’m in.
I am not available for rattage this week as well, as I’ll be out of town. I am looking forward to this though.
Here’s some required reading on the deep green marketing scam that is biodynamics:
Barzun and Smith in Skeptical Inquirer
Joe Eskenazi on “Voodoo on the Vine”
Both articles feature this winemaker, if unflatteringly.
Am I missing something? I’m out but I don’t understand the negativity.
I’m going to pass on this one. It’s not the great deal I would expect from the folks here at wine.woot. I can get this for $12/btl locally.
[QUOTE=PetiteSirah, post:12, topic:242463]
Here’s some required reading on the deep green marketing scam that is biodynamics:
Barzun and Smith in Skeptical Inquirer
Joe Eskenazi on “Voodoo on the Vine”
Both articles feature this winemaker, if unflatteringly.
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Hahaha…so this is you “out” of the thread, huh? 
Pourtal Wine Bar in Santa Monica, CA is featuring 9 of Bonny Doon’s wines, including this one, all by the taste. If you are in the area come in to taste all 9 wines on the Enomatic Tasting Machine, then make an informed decision. Oh, and Randall Grahm, winemaker, will be stopping by Monday night from 7pm till 9pm. http://www.pourtal.com
Biodynamic wine. Always stirs up controversy in these parts.
At any rate, the price point should please those looking for $11 bottles.
Although there’s plenty of kindling already, the fact sheet offers up an ingredient list:
Grapes, tartaric acid and sulfur dioxide.
Other ingredients used in processing:
cultured yeast, yeast nutrient, malolactic culture, copper sulfate, untoasted wood chips and French oak barrels.
It would be interesting to understand the seeming dichotomy between “natural” vineyard practice and “modern” wine making (acid addition, cultured yeast, wood chips). I’m all for listing ingredients, I like the honesty, but BD vineyard management and interventionist wine making seem an odd mix.
Bonny Doon uses biodynamics, which is a pseudoscientific approach to winemaking. A number of folks object to the New Age mysticism wrapped in a veneer of faux research.
“Finally, depending upon the position of the Moon in the Zodiac, the Biodynamic calendar divides the days of the month into four categories: Earth, air, fire, and water.”
… Are you kidding me? wow.
Sadly, no, it is not a joke. This wine should sell well to hippies and New Age-y people, but that is not so much the Woot crowd . . . .