My only trepidation about this is that two of the selections are sec, rather than my preferred brut (brut that I am). I would love to hear what the winery rep(s) have to say about the sweetness. On the other hand, this is one time I would love to enter the great Labrat-lottery (labrattery?).

Intuition (plus last year’s offerings) tell me that the end-of-week selection will not sparkle (at least not literally). My guess is that it will be a still pinot noir.

How many of the DC/NoVA team could have seen this coming??? In for 3!!!!!

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Aside from my "well publicized" love of all things Mumm and sparkly, I am a direct descendent of a signer of the Declaration. How can I NOT be in on the best red, white, and blue offer I've seen in a long time???

I - who NEVER begs for labrattage & who has never been a labrat - am now officially begging!

P.S. - bunnymasseuse...I'd better hear that you are in as well!

tommythecat78 wrote:It will probably be awhile 'til I drink these...how should these be stored?

Vertical, vertical, vertical!!! The shipping container they use is great - vertical rounds completely enclosed in styrofoam. Just use that and put it in a cool(er) place.

bridgeresq wrote:Finally, after having crews of up to 15 people nearly every day for close to 2 and a half years, and more money spent than you could imagine, my home should finally be ready post-Katrina in about 2 months. These will be part of the celebration!! Cheers!!

Thanks for summer shipping!

Wow! Quite a reason for celebration, indeed!! Best of luck of with the completion of your reconstruction and a hearty congrats!

No Ohio this week. Oh well. I was definitely going to get this one, but my Visa is pretty happy I didn't. I would have had to switch some funds around for this one - I'm a poor college student, and payday isn't till Friday!

I even looked to see about sending it to another state - No Indiana or Kentucky either. Just wasn't meant to be, I guess!

I'm not a huge fan of the sparkly, and already have enough in the cellar. However, I would love to try the red. Maybe someone can bring one to NoVa #5 (or #6 for that matter)

Where is our favorite BubblyKindaGal, Liz??? Will she be back to chat?

In for 1.
I have to stop reading these boards, we've been in for 10 of the past 14 offerings.
WD: would love to labrat one of these. Our kid is graduating this week and it's been rollercoaster year!

I'd love to order but since I STILL have NOT received my order for Ty Caton, I doubt I'll be ordering for a while. 3 emails and still have no idea what is going on since no one has replied. I've never had a problem but this is unacceptable. AFTER my order was damaged in the first place in the middle of shipment. SIGH... no wine for me... i guess there is a wine Tom Servo too. ;)

What is a non-reciprocal state?

It sure would be nice if we could actually get a product once in a while that would ship to NJ... :-/

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I'm very excited to try the red! Great offering for the 4th of July!

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In for 1 and available for LaBrattery!

I really dont need to be buying anymore wine, im hoping I am going to behave and stay away from buying...yea, buying wine for atleast a month...I went from 0 bottles to 42 bottles (13 consumed) in about 2 months....I need to take a break, I hate when i get curious and want to learn as much as i can about something...So im going to be mumm about mumm..would love to get it, but wont because im a good boy.

Corrado wrote:

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Dude! Don't you get lonely out there all by yourself?

CpprCr8 wrote:How many of the DC/NoVA team could have seen this coming??? In for 3!!!!!

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Aside from my "well publicized" love of all things Mumm and sparkly, I am a direct descendent of a signer of the Declaration. How can I NOT be in on the best red, white, and blue offer I've seen in a long time???

I - who NEVER begs for labrattage & who has never been a labrat - am now officially begging!

WD -- we've got pics of CJ with her Mumm Cuvee that make the pics of Loweeel making out with the KR Petite Syrah bottle look almost G-rated. Willing to share for CJ's labrat report if she is picked.

In for two, and praying for some celebratory lab-ratty sparkle to wet my palate and get me going for this sparkly goodness

-the merlot lover and closet sparkle lover

CpprCr8 wrote:P.S. - bunnymasseuse...I'd better hear that you are in as well!

I don't know what you are talkinga bout...

bunnymasseuse wrote:In for two, and praying for some celebratory lab-ratty sparkle to wet my palate and get me going for this sparkly goodness

-the merlot lover and closet sparkle lover

And if she gets it (especially the red, hint hint) We may have a two-fer . I've got a nice braised turkey dish waiting.

mander77 wrote:I'd love to order but since I STILL have NOT received my order for Ty Caton, I doubt I'll be ordering for a while. 3 emails and still have no idea what is going on since no one has replied. I've never had a problem but this is unacceptable. AFTER my order was damaged in the first place in the middle of shipment. SIGH... no wine for me... i guess there is a wine Tom Servo too. ;)

Yep, I'm still waiting on my replacement TCs, too. Ever hopeful, I keep ordering more, though.

We served the Brut at my wedding reception two weeks ago and it was a HUGE hit. Very tasty indeed.

jwhite6114 wrote:Wow! Quite a reason for celebration, indeed!! Best of luck of with the completion of your reconstruction and a hearty congrats!

awww, thanks, jwhite!! It is a contributing historic property so it is taking close to 3 years of painstaking, loving restoration, but I've still got everything original from a century ago (and that's just the interior!). When I saw these sparklys, it sounded like a great addition to the obnoxious and rude partying that is about to ensue (along with the studio speakers) - the good neighbors are invited, the bad ones can just call the police!!

brizzock wrote:It sure would be nice if we could actually get a product once in a while that would ship to NJ... :-/

It has nothing to do with regulations...they just can't find a delivery truck willing to go to NJ. I mean..who goes to Jersey by choice?????

debren27 wrote:I thought we were allowed to call it "California Champagne" now, instead of this "sparkling wine" nonsense ... ?

We can call it anything we want. The company, on the other hand, has to follow the law.

And with Mumm Napa being so closely tied to Mumm France, I doubt that they'd do anything to cause confusion.

My family and I were in Napa back in March. All three of us enjoy sparklers enough to join two wine clubs - - - Mumm Napa was one of them.

We just opened the Reserve Brut last Friday - - We really enjoyed this bottle. It was a fantastic pairing with seafood ravioli alfredo. As with any good wine, this stands well on its own, but a good pairing brings it up to the next level.

There was cinnamon toast on the nose, and some caramel. The flavors reminded me of vanilla peaches and cream with a nice nutty finish. This was one of those rare bottles that we finished with dinner.

bridgeresq wrote:Finally, after having crews of up to 15 people nearly every day for close to 2 and a half years, and more money spent than you could imagine, my home should finally be ready post-Katrina in about 2 months. These will be part of the celebration!! Cheers!!

Thanks for summer shipping!

Congratulations!!!

WOO-HOO! With my birthday next week and the Tour De France around the corner, there could not be a better time to stock up on sparkling wine. In for three!

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WineDavid and BubblyKindaGal, looking forward to later in the week, I'm going to throw my hat in the ring for the DVX and DVX Rose. When I visited Mumm in December with other Devotees of Effervescence we sampled most everything, and these two rocked the table!

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It's 36 minutes from end of labrat submissions.... and I'm down for the count.

The special ladyfriend would be "soooooooooo haaaaapppppppyyyyy" me if I got labratted this week. Just thought I'd mention that.

Brythephotoguy wrote:My family and I were in Napa back in March. All three of us enjoy sparklers enough to join two wine clubs - - - Mumm Napa was one of them.

We just opened the Reserve Brut last Friday - - We really enjoyed this bottle. It was a fantastic pairing with seafood ravioli alfredo. As with any good wine, this stands well on its own, but a good pairing brings it up to the next level.

There was cinnamon toast on the nose, and some caramel. The flavors reminded me of vanilla peaches and cream with a nice nutty finish. This was one of those rare bottles that we finished with dinner.

Yummy... I've packed you, by the way, for this excellent 'volunteer' semi-rattery.

Loweeel wrote:And if she gets it (especially the red, hint hint) We may have a two-fer . I've got a nice braised turkey dish waiting.

Hey I'll take whatever, red, white, blue, pink with purple pokadots.

cheron98 wrote:Congratulations!!!

Thanks, Cheron!! I've been pretty quiet just ordering and drinking, but it has been such a long and hard road and as I get close to the end of it, I just feel like screaming, "Yayyy! Come party with me!!" These sparklys reflect how I'm finally feeling.

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In for 1 and available for LaBrattery!

Weird, I didn't get a confirmation email like I usually do when I make an order. Is everyone else getting theirs?

cjsiege wrote:Vertical, vertical, vertical!!! The shipping container they use is great - vertical rounds completely enclosed in styrofoam. Just use that and put it in a cool(er) place.

hmmm, at the risk of exposing my near total ignorance on the bubbly, pray do tell why vertical is better than horizontal in this case?

The last Mumm trio was the first time I bought was in for more than one, and then we promptly received about 4 more bottles of sparkily around the same time. I want to here about the reds from the labrats before I hit the button.

themostrighteous wrote:hmmm, at the risk of exposing my near total ignorance on the bubbly, pray do tell why vertical is better than horizontal in this case?

Great explantion on why champagne should be stored vertically.

I just updated the "How good it this deal?" spreadsheet to show savings percentage both with and without retail shipping (woot shipping is included in all numbers as you can't get it from woot without paying shipping, so is really part of the cost). As some of these are bottles that a lot of folks can find locally, I figured the alternative comparison might be helpful.