Congratulations, Kid
You’ve Just Been Elected To The Bordeaux Directors
This is a big responsibility, you understand. The BordeauxDirectors is the executive body charged with leading our organization into the future, facing the challenges that lie ahead, leadership, vision, blah, blah, blah.
Let’s get to the perks. You’ll have use of the lodge (subject to availability). You’ll get a modest stipend for travel and expenses. And you’re exempt from corking duties at all organization events, unless you enjoy that sort of thing.
Also, you’ll be entitled to wear the regal dark purple beret at meetings. It’s a deep, gorgeous color, almost black, like a ripe eggplant with a deep tissue bruise, or like the color of Iron Horse’s 2005 Bordeaux blend.
Which brings us to the most exciting benefit of membership: Three bottles of Iron Horse’s 2005 Bordeaux blend, a supple mixture of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot from the T-bar-T Vineyard in the Alexander Valley’s steep, rugged northeast corner.
As you probably know, this is the last vintage of the stuff. Iron Horse sold this vineyard to concentrate on their Green Valley Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Your three bottles will come directly from Iron Horse, out of the final few hundred remaining cases in inventory. It’s a genuine collector’s item!
Oh, this wine! It smells of cedar, tobacco and blackberry jam! It tastes of sweet, chewy tannins and blueberries! It pairs with rich comfort foods! It will send you into such an intense state of emotional ecstasy as to literally melt your face off! Literally!
So you’ll enjoy that. And then finally you’ll have full voting rights at meetings, of course. The Bordeaux Directors’ next assembly is scheduled for this Friday, when we’ll be making a final decision whether to pour out another round of the 2005.
Naturally, you’re expected to vote in favor.
2005 Bordeaux Blend:
- Appellation: Alexander Valley, Sonoma County
- Blend: 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Cabernet Franc and 8% Petit Verdot
- Alcohol: 14.8% v/v
- Acidity: .71 g/100ml
- Residual Sugar: 0.2 g/100ml
- pH: 3.48
- Malolactic Fermentation: 100%
- Barrels: 100% French
- Harvest Dates: October 6 to October 20, 2005
- Date Bottled: March 2008
- Release Date: June 2008
- Total Production: 2057 Cases
Rules and restrictions:
- Wine sold by winery (or a retailer in your state where necessary)
- You must be 21 or older to order
- Whoever receives the package must be 21 or older
- If you're drunk when the package shows up, you will not be allowed to receive it
- Wine cannot be delivered to a P.O. Box
- We highly recommend you use a business address as your shipping address
Thanks to stick-in-the-mud buzzkilling state legislators, wine may only be delivered to the following states:
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- District Of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oregon
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
If your state's not on the list, you're out of luck... for now. Keep up with the ever-changing laws over at ShipCompliantBlog.com, and/or sound the alarms with your state assembly person through FreeTheGrapes.org. Meanwhile, all Federal, state and local laws are complied with in providing this wine.
