Okay, I bit the bullet and am in for one. Like the other poster above, I just made my most expensive per-bottle wine purchase. :P At least it was a very worthy purchase on which to use my woot! BD code (and thanks so much for that, woot!).

Maybe by the time I drink these, my palate will be able to appreciate them. I'm still at the point where I can tell if a wine isn't a good wine, but can't really tell much difference between a good wine and an excellent wine, nor explain why a good wine is good other than using words like "juicy," "smooth," and "yum." I hold off on purchasing more expensive wines because I feel the extra money is wasted on my palate! (And as I don't have an unlimited budget, I wonder how smart it is to cultivate a palate that IS able to appreciate more expensive wines!)

Oh Lord, the EWN SMS messages are hitting (at least mine just popped), get ready to BOUNCE!

two words: no-brainer. thank goodness it's my woot (and real) birthday month!

in for three.

bardolator wrote:Okay, I bit the bullet and am in for one. Like the other poster above, I just made my most expensive per-bottle wine purchase. :P

Maybe by the time I drink these, my palate will be able to appreciate them. I'm still at the point where I can tell if a wine isn't a good wine, but can't really tell much difference between a good wine and an excellent wine, nor explain why a good wine is good other than using words like "juicy," "smooth," and "yum." I hold off on purchasing more expensive wines because I feel the extra money is wasted on my palate! (And as I don't have an unlimited budget, I wonder how smart it is to cultivate a palate that IS able to appreciate more expensive wines!)

I think you'll be able to tell when you drink this, can't imagine you'll be disappointed at all. The only people with regrets will be the ones who don't order.

Ty Caton 2006 TyTanium - Two Pack

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Ahhh to see my name in lights. Never been more happy with a wooting!

Thanks Ty, I cant wait to get my hands (and mouth) on these...

In for 2 on my iPhone (why isn't there an app for that?)....I've been hoping for another Ty offer

yellowroe wrote:Ty Caton has the best wines and I rated this one "Very Good" the last time around. It was so smooth and the price I listed was $20. Big jump but worth it since I can't seem to find it anywhere around here. Just bought a case of Monday's deal and a case of Greg Norman when Cellar 360 called last week with the great deal that they had on. With all the previous wines in my collection, you think I lived in a liquor store or that is what my friends say when they visit. But can't turn this one down!!!! Time to start drinking a little more each evening.
Ty - what would you say is the biggest difference between the 2004 and 2006. Hey, why weren't we offered the 2005???

In checking the old deal calculator sheets, it looks like the 2004 relative price via woot was $23.83 (with shipping, compared to a single order from the winery). Of course, at the time, Ty Caton was selling the 2004 TyTanium for $49.

TyCaton wrote:Tytanium is the best of the best from the vineyard and winery. The best blocks, the best barrels, best blend. The field Blend is the wine that does not make the greade into Tytanium. It's a completely different experience. Tytanium takes it to a higher level.

Speaking of, any chance we're going to see Field Blend back on Woot sometime soonish? I love them both but FB crushes TYT in terms of QPR. And I just gave a precious FB bottle to my handyman for being awesome, because that's what awesome deserves.

jplamb wrote:In for 2 on my iPhone (why isn't there an app for that?)....I've been hoping for another Ty offer

There is an app for it: WootWatch

hld1970 wrote:There are only rats for MONDAYS offer. No rats for Wed and Fri offers. Just sayin'.

Oh yeah...this gets so confusing!

I was just baiting...things went so well with the Elu.

TyCaton wrote: Tytanium takes it to a higher level.

11

woopdedoo wrote:11

Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?

Nigel: (pause) These go to eleven.

Thanks WD and TY for making my day.....

Ahhhh...this is one of my automatic buys. This offer completed my being home on Veteran's Day. When the text came through my cell phone, I jumped on it right away for two woots. One for me and one for my son.

To all my fellow Veterans, God Bless All of You!!!! And tonight, I will honor your honored service by raising up a glass of fine Woot wine to all of you!!! Cheers, Here, Here...

Just thinking about Tytanium has me drooling...WOOTGODS - howsabout a RAT on this????

Damn you Woot! I haven't even popped open any of the TyTaniums that I have from previous offerings, but peer pressure is a mother lover.

Waiting for our first any day now, so I'm sure we'll have a few months worth of good celebrations coming up anyway.

Automatic in for 3. Got a bunch from the 50% off deal and it's very very good

I'd say I'd open a bottle tonight for those on the fence, but no one should be on the fence about it

the 2003 cab is the best bottle we've ever gotten from woot, and resulted in us joining their club. I wish we had been able to go when we were at the 8th St area

Here's my request for the winemaker - when are we getting an 8th St Wineries club? I love most everything I've had from them and wish I could join all the clubs individually, but it's just too expensive.

'nother one of those wines that I'd love to see labratted.

Oh well.

hld1970 wrote:There are only rats for MONDAYS offer. No rats for Wed and Fri offers. Just sayin'.

That's sad, but I can understand with the short offer times. Oh well, just have to wait for the bottles to arrive and the son make it home from KY around Thanksgiving.

crzycajn70 wrote:Checked my account and somehow with all the Ty Caton offers I've failed to purchase one. Until now. In for 3 and looking forward to tasting this one.

I think you might have been in Italy last year, when they were up .... teasing us with wine reports. Now we see the cost involved .... muwahahahahaha!

TyCaton wrote:The 2006 vintage was a better year for me than the 2004. So the biggest difference between the two other than differences in the varietal blend was the grape quality. They wre both very good, but the 2006 gave me the best grapes to work with.

That being said, what do you expect to see with the 2007's? Do you have the same level of excitement for the '07's that the rest of the wine world has?

Glass Half Empty Thought "I cant believe I just spent $215 on 6 bottles of wine".

Glass Half Full Thought "I can't believe I just bought $500 worth of excellent wine for $215".

Never had any of Ty's offerings before, but If he is in the same class of quality as Wellington and Roessler, then I will soon be a wine club member.

Even I can't pass up an offer like this. The last I bought was in May with the Ty Caton offer then. I bought 3, so for those of you unemployed once you get employed and you are looking for a bottle I can sell you one or more for the woot price. There is but one caveat - I won't ship it so somehow you have to meet me in person.

jplamb wrote:In for 2 on my iPhone (why isn't there an app for that?)....I've been hoping for another Ty offer

Woot watch my friend, there is an app for that

free2day33611 wrote:I have an Avanti. It is rated to hold 166, but holds a little less due to the size of some bottles. I have had it 3 years and no problems. The only thing I do not like is if there is a powere failure, the temperature reverts to the factory setting of 55 degrees. Since 99% of my wine is red, I keep it at 60 degrees. I have called them and there is no way to set the factory setting to a different temperature. I think I paid around $900 and ordered on-line.

I just recently purchased an Avanti 155 bottle model. I purchased it because my 36 bottle one was way too small and this one had the features I wanted, looked good with my kitchen and was in my price range. Delivery is free and it came in about two weeks. It has one compressor and uses a fan to regulate the temperature in the two zones, but actually works pretty well at keeping it consistent.

It's technically a free-standing unit but the compressor has airflow to the front so it's suitable for a recessed installation also. Right now it's just kind of sitting in the kitchen but we're getting new cabinets in January so we can give it a built-in look at that time. The door is stainless & glass tinted with a UV-protective coating and the wood shelves pull out. There are three kinds of shelves to accommodate all sizes of bottles, but if you have more than, say, ten magnums, you might be in trouble. The 5-year extended warranty the site gives is a nice bonus, too.

http://www.beveragefactory.com/wine/wine/60-200/WCR683DZD.shtml

fairnymph wrote:Velvety, fruity entry gives way to mouth-drying tannins and lots of dry woody notes - like licking fresh-sawn logs. Plenty of acidity, but it's slightly off, a bit too sour. The fruit notes after the attack are now unripe, green, pithy, zesty. There's almost something medicinal and there are a lot more green notes overall, almost like some Cab Franc snuck in.

Mouthfeel and structure are substantial, and this wine is drinking pretty well now - it doesn't feel too young but would drink well for a few more years I'd bet. Finish is shockingly short and very drily woody, with maybe a bit of earth or clay in there.

Now, now, let's not blame Cab Franc for everything!

Critic Steve Heimoff says essentially the same thing on '04: "This Bordeaux-Rhône blend is rustic and dry, with significant tannins. It has earthy, herb, berry and spice flavors that finish with a touch of bitterness."

Sounds like a ripe, highly extracted (I sometimes associate herb-y flavors with high extraction in otherwise very ripe wines) wine with a large percentage of new oak. But with some interesting or potentially off-putting angular edges to it.

free2day33611 wrote:I have an Avanti. It is rated to hold 166, but holds a little less due to the size of some bottles. I have had it 3 years and no problems. The only thing I do not like is if there is a powere failure, the temperature reverts to the factory setting of 55 degrees. Since 99% of my wine is red, I keep it at 60 degrees. I have called them and there is no way to set the factory setting to a different temperature. I think I paid around $900 and ordered on-line.

I have two of the Avanti 166 bottle fridges, it definitely doesn't hold 166 but it's probably the best value out there for wine fridges (I think I can fit about 150 in each one due to the bottle sizes). It does drive me nuts that the thermostat resets on a power outage but so does the thermostat on my little Vinotemp 36 bottle fridge. It'd be nice if they'd stick a little battery in there to preserve the temperature setting.

Blasted Woot - in for two.

Resistance is futile.

mipo777 wrote:Woot watch my friend, there is an app for that

Well I guess the question is why didn't somebody tell me sooner? I guess it's easy enough just to order through the browser.

gcdyersb wrote:Now, now, let's not blame Cab Franc for everything!

Critic Steve Heimoff says essentially the same thing on '04: "This Bordeaux-Rhône blend is rustic and dry, with significant tannins. It has earthy, herb, berry and spice flavors that finish with a touch of bitterness."

Sounds like a ripe, highly extracted (I sometimes associate herb-y flavors with high extraction in otherwise very ripe wines) wine with a large percentage of new oak. But with some interesting or potentially off-putting angular edges to it.

Yeah, I'm not a CF fan. :P At all. I think I'd even rather drink Chardonnay.

I hadn't thought to compare it to Bordeaux-Rhone style blends but I sort of see it - this has a lot more heft to it, typically Cali in that way - and that I like about it.

The nose is really perfect, as is the colour and depth of hue - just gorgeous. Attack is lovely. But the palate and finish just don't do it for me and that's most of the time it's in my mouth, alas. The nose promises so much fruit and then it's all gone so quickly.

I also have chronic drymouth, so I dislike wines that are really drying without some juiciness to compensate. I want some juiciness in a red, and I don't get any here. Further decanting didn't help either - even more of the fruit has faded, and it's bitter green sawdust (and rosemary?!).

I am not knowledgeable or experienced enough at this point to pinpoint whether the herbaceous qualities are due to overextracted fruit. Tasting this wine was a very interesting experience, but it's not a wine that I'll want to drink again, or drink in quantity. I think the rest of my bottle is destined for the stewpot.

I've been good and haven't purchased anything from Woot in 1.5months...I went in for one last time with the field blend and loved it. In for two.

WD incoming free service bulletin: no link or display of the monday deal to be found. Did it sell out? Further, wine.woot.com/monday goes straight to the TyCaton deal.]

that is all

canonizer wrote:WD incoming free service bulletin: no link or display of the monday deal to be found. Did it sell out? Further, wine.woot.com/monday goes straight to the TyCaton deal.]

that is all

http://wine.woot.com/monday

takes me straight to the deal - still there....

JOATMON wrote:Actually, it's the birthday of when you joined woot, which for you was October 5. Not everybody gets a birthday coupon; you have to have ordered a certain level of wine.woot offerings to be eligable. It looks like you didn't make the cutoff.

Still, it's worth shooting a quick email to service@woot -- nothing to lose, right? I had not gotten a bday code, and they quickly took care of it for me. And now I have a coupon, and what appears to be an irresistible wine on which to use it!

Worried about shipping on this one...I ordered 2 sets but am going to be out of town from the Friday after Thanksgiving until the week after. Do we have any kind of delivery estimate on this one?

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Absolutely no resolve to avoid. In for two wishing it was for three. My consider gifting. Still have the Tytanium in the cellar from the original offerings. Perhaps now I can justify dusting it off and opening, as the replacements will be on their way shortly.

Too funny, just told a friend yesterday that it was overdue for a Ty Caton. Presto....thanks WD!!!

lurcher wrote:http://wine.woot.com/monday

takes me straight to the deal - still there....

that's because they've fixed it.

is a HUGE fan of this 06 and the wine club

jp9219 wrote:Worried about shipping on this one...I ordered 2 sets but am going to be out of town from the Friday after Thanksgiving until the week after. Do we have any kind of delivery estimate on this one?

My mid-week orders seem to be shipping the following week, midway and arriving late in the week. My Michael David order (10/29) shipped 11/3 and arrived on 11/6 (SoCal).

So chances are that it will ship early next week, and arrive before Thanksgiving.

alfisti13 wrote:Current numbers (updated each minute)
First sucker: mill
Speed to first woot: 0m 8.253s
Last wooter to woot: alfisti13

Absolutely no resolve to avoid. In for two wishing it was for three. My consider gifting. Still have the Tytanium in the cellar from the original offerings. Perhaps now I can justify dusting it off and opening, as the replacements will be on their way shortly.

Too funny, just told a friend yesterday that it was overdue for a Ty Caton. Presto....thanks WD!!!

My Ty Caton Wine Club order arrived yesterday, and I took a quick look at the paperwork included, and was thinking about getting some more TyTanium .... now I don't have to worry about it!

My wife and I are Ty Caton wine club members because of Ty's 2004 TyTanium that I purchased on Woot. We just visited the tasting room with another couple two weeks ago on a visit to Sonoma. Ty was there to do the tasting with us and we kept him so long he was even late leaving on his vacation. (Thanks again Ty!) All the wines we tasted were outstanding, but the 2006 Tytanium was exceptional, even among the other superb wines. Needless to say, our friends are now club members too.

This is an unbelievable deal, do not miss this one! I'm in for one and I already have a regular shipment from the club due this week.

I don't think my father-in-law has ever forgiven me for marrying his little girl and now making him a grandpa...TyTanium, I hope you can bring me up a level or two in his eyes.

As for my mother-in-law, I fear there is no hope, unless woot starts offering houses for sale.