Cesare
April 14, 2010, 12:02am
2
TLC Cabernet/Shiraz Six - Pack2007 TLC Cabernet/ Shiraz
pernst
April 14, 2010, 12:05am
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Wow! I was the first sucker! Do I win a prize?
Of course no Connecticut again not that this one really excites me anyway.
I’ve tried looking but I’ve had no luck finding the vineyard’s website (if they have one).
pH is 360? Did I miss out on a new version of the scale?
Of course no Connecticut again not that this one really excites me anyway.
I’ve tried looking but I’ve had no luck finding the vineyard’s website (if they have one).
Good price. If it’s not so great, summer BBQ season is coming up and nobody remembers who brought “that” bottle.
interesting blend, never seen one like it before
anyone tried something like this?
Good price. If it’s not so great, summer BBQ season is coming up and nobody remembers who brought “that” bottle.
Yeah but I think the other people doing the Sip n’ Sail would notice if I tried using this up on them.
Six-pack, which means it’s a lot of a fairly cheap wine. With the most restrictive state list I’ve seen in a while.
Somehow I think this will be a low sales deal.
In for one, putting my faith in Woot;)
You might be interested in a thread that Richardhod wrote up a great post about screw caps here which also includes links to other older threads on the topic.
At less than $10 a bottle shipped, I’d better see every single person who complains that the wines offered are too expensive to be in for the max.
That said, the price makes me want to break the SIWBM and grab a pack.
Six-pack, which means it’s a lot of a fairly cheap wine. With the most restrictive state list I’ve seen in a while.
Somehow I think this will be a low sales deal.
I agree especially when it’s a unknown name winery with no apparent website and as far as I can tell no reviews or anything to be found. Probably a good choice for the risk takers and those who trust woot enough to try something new on faith.
The stelvin closures make the risk of the wine being bad because of poor treatment (= cheap wine) far less. Lest we forget KR’s take from last week on the matter:
This is Kent.
The question about screw-caps has a long answer–which I will shorten to its essentials. From a winemaker’s point-of-view—corks are bad, screw-tops are good. Can I make it any simpler? Corks are bad for two (main) reasons: 1. about 6% of them create “corky” flavors in the wine. Most of the time these characteristics are below “sensory threshold” so you don’t actually notice them, you just taste the wine and think “boy that isn’t a very interesting wine, I guess I won’t buy it again”—which is not what a winemaker (and especially a wine marketer) wants. 2. Corks are expensive and doubly expensive because you have to pay more for a bottle with a strong neck to hold the cork in. SO you are paying extra for something that is going to degrade the wine.—but people like to pull corks, so we keep using them!—bah-humbug. New Zealand has almost completely eliminated corks from their industry—once again leading the world.
As to screw-caps. They are technically wonderful closures, but they don’t have much mystic to them. The “crack” just doesn’t compare to the “pop” (of a cork). I know lots of people talk about how the screw-cap doesn’t let the wine “breath” like the cork does (miniscule amounts of oxygen transfer thru the cork over time to help the wine develop), but the reality is that in an effort to cut down on “corkiness” the corks are so entombed in silicon etc now-a-days that the corks don’t breath either.
Just remember – screw-caps are good, corks are bad — and the sooner that we can get all of you consumers to understand this, the better off we will all be. Do I sound like I am on a box at Hyde Park Corner??? I am!—this is an issue that is near and dear to me. I think it is one of the few last major “flaws” in our business, and it is time to fix it!
As to laying down screw-cap wine on its side: You don’t need to, but it will not hurt it if you do. As to aging wine in screw-cap bottles…it will age just like any other wine.
From high atop my pulpit—
Kent
interesting blend, never seen one like it before
anyone tried something like this?
Shiraz and cabernet blends are seen a lot in Aussie reds, often with a bit of merlot. http://www.yalumba.com/content.asp?p=212
Edit: There’s something fishy about these avatars.
pH is 360? Did I miss out on a new version of the scale?
Care for a drop of water with your ammonium hydroxide?
I was waiting for a good 6-pack
Ziwcam
April 14, 2010, 12:31am
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Hoping to rat this. I’m a poor college student, so $55 is tough, but it IS only $9.16 per bottle, shipped.
Hoping to rat this. I’m a poor college student, so $55 is tough, but it IS only $9.16 per bottle, shipped.
No rats for 2nd or 3rd offerings of the week unless the 3rd is included in the rat packs for the 1st offering.
