Slingshot Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
$89.99 + $5 shipping
CONDITION: Red
PRODUCT: 6 2010 Slingshot Cabernet Sauvignon
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Woot Sucks! Two wootoffs no TRUFFLE BUTTER!!!!!!!

Rutherford cab.....too bad it's just a baby eh?

bsevern wrote:Rutherford cab.....too bad it's just a baby eh?

Patience..... My friend!

bsevern wrote:Rutherford cab.....too bad it's just a baby eh?

It's marked Napa so it appears to be a nearly Rutherford cab...

boylan wrote:It's marked Napa so it appears to be a nearly Rutherford cab...

According to the Slingshot website, the cab is from Juliana Vineyards, a 3,250-acre ranch in Pope Valley that has 350 acres planted to grapes and another 400 were available for planting. The vineyards provide grapes to such wineries as Beringer, Groth, Duckhorn and Luna.

Anyone know how this is?

Pretty sure the description is in error. It states it was released in spring of 2010, but the vintage is 2010??? We can piece it together if someone provided the oak treatment/duration.

bsevern wrote:According to the Slingshot website, the cab is from Juliana Vineyards, a 3,250-acre ranch in Pope Valley that has 350 acres planted to grapes and another 400 were available for planting. The vineyards provide grapes to such wineries as Beringer, Groth, Duckhorn and Luna.

Yeah, I saw that too but the bottle says Napa so they must have too much juice from out of the AVA. Or maybe there is a dogleg in the AVA...

bsevern wrote:

bsevern whines, "Rutherford cab.....too bad it's just a baby eh?"

That's WINES Thunder baby!!!

Is this kosher? The write up suggests that philistines might not like it

$23.00 a bottle on the winery website. So the Woot offer stands at a cool $8.17 less per cork pulled.

My compliments to the photographer for a great job! Very creative.

boylan wrote:Yeah, I saw that too but the bottle says Napa so they must have too much juice from out of the AVA. Or maybe there is a dogleg in the AVA...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Pope Valley not an actual AVA, at least not yet.

catfishhunters99 wrote:$23.00 a bottle on the winery website. So the Woot offer stands at a cool $8.17 less per cork pulled.

6 bottle offer puts this at a tad under $16 each..mayhaps you thought a case...Cheers!

kaolis wrote:6 bottle offer puts this at a tad under $16 each..mayhaps you thought a case...Cheers!

He said 8.17 less, not 8.17 per bottle.

For the winery: Can we get some stats on this? What the alcohol %? What's the pH? TA? Brix at harvest? I'll take anything you have! THANKS!

jhkey wrote:For the winery: Can we get some stats on this? What the alcohol %? What's the pH? TA? Brix at harvest? I'll take anything you have! THANKS!

Also any RS? Oak Treatment? Production numbers?

North316 wrote:He said 8.17 less, not 8.17 per bottle.

He said 8.17 per cork pulled (which equates to per bottle). I think what he meant was $7.17 less per bottle...

Since it's either really late and/or really early wherever you guys are (and you may still be sampling the wares in order to provide us with tasting updates), I think we should all just agree this is a pretty good deal. As long as you have space for another six bottles. Woot, I'm sorry, but I can't keep up!

Any chance wine woot will crank up warm weather shipping a little earlier this year? It's been in the 80s in Atlanta for two weeks now, and there's no sign of relief any time soon. We are dreading what May - August will be like if it continues to get warmer with each passing week.

North316 wrote:Also any RS? Oak Treatment? Production numbers?

...free sulfur? total sulfur? harvest date?

jhkey wrote:...free sulfur? total sulfur? harvest date?

As long as we're asking for all this data, how about drinking window?

rugrats2001 wrote:My compliments to the photographer for a great job! Very creative.

+1
Still not a huge fan of over usage of DOF, but not only was this a creative shot, but all the bottles are standing upright;) Wasn't sure that was physically possible at the Woot studios anymore, lol..

Bione wrote:He said 8.17 per cork pulled (which equates to per bottle).

Once again, no he didn't. He said 8.17 LESS per cork pulled. But there is no point in arguing this.

mschauber wrote:As long as we're asking for all this data, how about drinking window?

I just hope they're not selling this wine before its time.

North316 wrote:Once again, no he didn't. He said 8.17 LESS per cork pulled. But there is no point in arguing this.

Let's just show the math
- w/o s/h
23-(89.99/6)=8
This means an $8/bottle savings over the winery price

- w WW s/h included
23-(94.99/6)=7.17
This means a $7.17/bottle savings over the winery price

North316 wrote:Once again, no he didn't. He said 8.17 LESS per cork pulled. But there is no point in arguing this.

ok ok! I apologize.. it was early... that being said, this offer has piqued my interest, could use some Cab in this price point..

mschauber wrote:+1
Still not a huge fan of over usage of DOF, but not only was this a creative shot, but all the bottles are standing upright;) Wasn't sure that was physically possible at the Woot studios anymore, lol..

This is woot, we need to veer away from the stylistic shots. How about some woot monkeys drinking the wine or David, Neil and Ali getting hammered. Or just have some fertilizer bottles with wine all over the place and one broken jagged bottle standing in the middle showing the wine label.

For those who like to know the story behind the winemakers:
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/204812

dsknicker wrote:For those who like to know the story behind the winemakers:
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/204812

That link does not work for me.

catfishhunters99 wrote:$23.00 a bottle on the winery website. So the Woot offer stands at a cool $8.17 less per cork pulled.

Is this a negative corkage fee?

North316 wrote:That link does not work for me.

As in you didn't care for it? Or the link is "broken" and doesn't take you to site? If "broken", not sure what the problem is as it works for me if I click on the post. Perhaps I did the link wrong? I'm a recent newbie here...

dsknicker wrote:As in you didn't care for it? Or the link is "broken" and doesn't take you to site? If "broken", not sure what the problem is as it works for me if I click on the post. Perhaps I did the link wrong? I'm a recent newbie here...

As in Broken. "Error 503 Service Unavailable"

dsknicker wrote:As in you didn't care for it? Or the link is "broken" and doesn't take you to site? If "broken", not sure what the problem is as it works for me if I click on the post. Perhaps I did the link wrong? I'm a recent newbie here...

This morning, the link takes you to a page with this

Error 503 Service Unavailable

Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:

XID: 606911463
Varnish

Searching the site for "Peter Stewart" takes you to a similar page; likely a site issue, not the link.

dsknicker wrote:As in you didn't care for it? Or the link is "broken" and doesn't take you to site? If "broken", not sure what the problem is as it works for me if I click on the post. Perhaps I did the link wrong? I'm a recent newbie here...

You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little @#$%@# *@ maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?

Here's another link to what I assume is the same article.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35108346/ns/business-success_in_hard_times/t/lean-year-rich-vintage/

At the time they were a startup working out of a warehouse buying bulk juice being dumped ala Cameron Hughes.

It would be nice to get some details about how the wine being offered was made/sourced.

kaolis wrote:You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little @#$%@# *@ maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?

In other words: don't be an a$$clown?!