$100/ 750ml bottle, 10% case discount off the retail price
This is off their site for the 2008 Super Sonoman Cabernet Sauvignon. Unless their site is not correct, then I believe the Woot 2 bottle offer is a 50% savings.
Would like to hear about this wine or winery from someone that has experienced it. Thanks and Cheers.
We had a bottle at the Denver tasting last week. I think it was the syrah. I’ll have to check my notes when I get home from work. It was definitely one of the best of the evening… and I recall our bottle indicating 100 cases produced.
Hey Wooters this is Chris and I am the Winemaker for the Super Sonoman Wines. The wines listed are all off of the top of the west side of the Mayacamas or at high altitude sites along the ridges and on steep slopes. I have had contracts on the vineyards for the better part of a decade and work really hard to make big, balanced and expressive wine.
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We had a bottle at the Denver tasting last week. I think it was the syrah. I’ll have to check my notes when I get home from work. It was definitely one of the best of the evening… and I recall our bottle indicating 100 cases produced.
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The Syrah was 100 cases and the 2008 Cab was 200 cases listed from their site. If you enjoyed your wine that much (and pretty sure it was the Syrah), then I can only hope the 2008 Cab is as good or better.
By the way, the Syrah is 2008 too. Want to go in for the 2008 2 bottle Cab offer, just trying to convince myself, plus I would like to hear more about it.
Thanks for your post.
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Hey Wooters this Chris and I am the Winemaker for the Super Sonoman Wines. The wines listed are all off of the top of the west side of the Mayacamas or at high altitude sites along the ridges and on steep slopes. I have had contracts on the vineyards for the better part of a decade and work really hard to make big, balanced and expressive wine.[/quote
Welcome aboad
The 2008 Cab, are all the grapes from the knights valley? Website says aging for another decade. How is it drinking now?
Thanks
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Hey Wooters this Chris and I am the Winemaker for the Super Sonoman Wines. The wines listed are all off of the top of the west side of the Mayacamas or at high altitude sites along the ridges and on steep slopes. I have had contracts on the vineyards for the better part of a decade and work really hard to make big, balanced and expressive wine.
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Welcome aboad
The 2008 Cab, are all the grapes from the knights valley? Website says aging for another decade. How is it drinking now?
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The 08’ is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon and from a single vineyard. The clones are 15 and 337 on 110R. The vineyard sits at approximately 1500 feet on the west/south west facing slope of Knights Valley. If you are familiar with Peter Michael Wines and Morlet by Luke Morlet I share this vineyard with Luke. The wine is massive but very approachable. I did a 30% plus Saingnee on the wine and I delestage and use a sump to remove seeds. the wine has silky sweet tannins and a very big mouthfeel. It was oaked for two years in 100% new french oak, I used Daranajou, Taransaud, Gamba and Sylvain cooperages.
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The cabs sound awesome and a great price for the style (100% new French oak, etc.). But I must resist.
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I agree, with the awesomeness, I can’t resist the 2 bottle/2008 Cab. In for at least one.
I don’t have the detailed consensus notes, but we tasted the Cab at the NYC #20 Tasting last Saturday. It was certainly not the Cabernet style that I like: it was excessively hot (>15% alcohol) and such fruit as there was seemed overripe to me.
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I don’t have the detailed consensus notes, but we tasted the Cab at the NYC #20 Tasting last Saturday. It was certainly not the Cabernet style that I like: it was excessively hot (>15% alcohol) and such fruit as there was seemed overripe to me.
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Admittedly the 08’ Cab is not for everyone. It is big and there is alchohol. If you find yourself in the Sonoma area please let me know. I would love to taste you through my wines both in bottle and barrel. I do my best in the vineyard and winey to make balanced and seductive wine and I am certain we could find something that would interest you.
I would enjoy meeting you and talking about Cabernet, a grape of which I have been excessively fond since the late 1950s. In general, my benchmark styles in Cabernet could best be thought of as the range between George Deuer’s pre-1964 Inglenook Casks and André Tchelistcheff’s Beaulieu DeLatour Cabernets through his retirement. My benchmark years are 1941 (which I only tasted as mature wines) followed by 1970 (which I have tasted throughout their lifecycles from barrel on). I have yet to taste a more recent year that I thought as good as either year.
I will be in the area from 20 - 28 July, leading the 2012 Woot Magical History Tours.
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I would enjoy meeting you and talking about Cabernet, a grape of which I have been excessively fond since the late 1950s. In general, my benchmark styles in Cabernet could best be thought of as the range between George Deuer’s pre-1964 Inglenook Casks and André Tchelistcheff’s Beaulieu DeLatour Cabernets through his retirement. My benchmark years are 1941 (which I only tasted as mature wines) followed by 1970 (which I have tasted throughout their lifecycles from barrel on). I have yet to taste a more recent year that I thought as good as either year.
I will be in the area from 20 - 28 July, leading the 2012 Woot Magical History Tours.
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This is good news on two fronts, the first is that I look forward to meeting you and sharing the wine I have crafted with you. I make wine in a state of the art facility within an industrial park. It will be great to show you around and taste through the wine.
The second is that I happen to have, in my stash of goodies, one bottle of 78’ DeLaTour that is a sole survivor from a vertical. I believe Tchelistcheff consulted on that wine and I think we should pop the cork when we meet up! Maybe there are some other Wooters we can convince to taste with us?
Sounds like fun. Yes, if I remember correctly, Andre did consult on that wine. Interestingly, While 1978 is generally considered the 2nd best year in the '70s (after 1970 - the 1974s which were so lauded faded early…), for Beaulieu, the 1979 LaTour was a better wine, more classically structured. I think I still have a few bottles, but they’re getting old now. Another curiosity is that in 1977, a year marked by late rains that ruined most of the Cabernet, Inglenook (under Jon Richburg’s short but memorable tenure) made a lovely Cabernet that held up for almost 20 years. (He also made a remarkable 1973 Cask there which showed promise of a real revival at Inglenook that didn’t last - that wine tasted very much like a George Deuer wine and was lovely at 25, still charming at 30, but very much faded by 35.)
It was definitely the Syrah at the Denver tasting.
Which I just ordered – decided to go for three, it was that good.
I don’t have my tasting notes to hand either, but will post a full review later tonight.
I will say in brief that the wine was amazing straight out of the bottle, but when I went back to it again about an hour and a half later it had really opened up – the finish had that nice velvety mouthfeel and the fruit had really come out.