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Ends on June 7 at 9AM CT

Twisted Oak *%#&@! Red Rhone Blend (Random) 3-Pack
$42.99 (Normally $54.00) 20% off List Price
You will receive a random selection of THREE of the 4 vintages below
2003 *%#&@! Red Rhone Blend
2005 *%#&@! Red Rhone Blend
2006 *%#&@! Red Rhone Blend
2009 *%#&@! Red Rhone Blend
CT links above

Twisted Oak Viognier (Random) 3-Pack
$44.99 (Normally $57.00) 21% off List Price
You will receive a random selection of THREE of the 4 vintages below
2005 Twisted Oak Viognier
2006 Twisted Oak Viognier
2007 Twisted Oak Viognier
2010 Twisted Oak Viognier
CT links above

Twisted Oak Murgatroyd (Random) 3-Pack
$54.99 (Normally $72.00) 24% off List Price
You will receive a random selection of THREE of the 4 vintages below
2004 Twisted Oak Murgatroyd
2005 Twisted Oak Murgatroyd
2006 Twisted Oak Murgatroyd
2008 Twisted Oak Murgatroyd
CT links above

Twisted Oak Tempranillo and Torcido 4-Pack
$74.99 (Normally $102.00) 26% off List Price
2006 Twisted Oak Tempranillo
2009 Twisted Oak Tempranillo
2009 Twisted Oak Torcido
CT links above

How are the earlier bottles of Viognier holding up?

Also are they drink now, or did you make these to age?

PS - What are the odds of getting a 2003 in the *%#&@! Red Rhone Blend Random 3-packs? I would love to try the early vintages listed.....with my luck I'd get three 2009's!

Wow three really nice deals up the same day...nice frackin job WD! well have to have one of the *%#&@! What else decisions decisions...

PS hoping for some of the older ones

bsevern wrote:PS - What are the odds of getting a 2003 in the *%#&@! Red Rhone Blend Random 3-packs? I would love to try the early vintages listed.....with my luck I'd get three 2009's!

The way it is worded is that you get three of the 4 vintages, which I interpret as being one each of 3 different vintages. Hopefully I am not wrong in that assessment.

North316 wrote:The way it is worded is that you get three of the 4 vintages, which I interpret as being one each of 3 different vintages. Hopefully I am not wrong in that assessment.

That's the way I read it as well, but definitely no guarantee you'd get the first vintage listed, which is the one I most want to try

bsevern wrote:How are the earlier bottles of Viognier holding up?

Also are they drink now, or did you make these to age?

Had some older Viognier and Marsanne at the Vegas bottling - both were quite good. El Jefe makes versatile wines that are good now but also good later.

Now to go in on the Murgatroyd or not...?

klezman wrote:Had some older Viognier and Marsanne at the Vegas bottling - both were quite good. El Jefe makes versatile wines that are good now but also good later.

Now to go in on the Murgatroyd or not...?

Thanks, that's great to know! Most likely will be all gone by the end of the summer anyhow, but I might keep a few bottles for next summer if their good and age worthy. Now I just need to decide where to store all this stuff....always the dilemma...yet somehow I figure out how to finagle a few more bottles into the collection...ahh what a sickness indeed.

Hey El Jefe, howcome the pH on the 2009 Torcido and 2008 Murgatroyd are significantly higher than all the rest? How does that affect the ageability?

bsevern wrote:PS - What are the odds of getting a 2003 in the *%#&@! Red Rhone Blend Random 3-packs? I would love to try the early vintages listed.....with my luck I'd get three 2009's!

I'm afraid I don't have control over that. You could try to appeal to the Woot Powers... I can tell you that you will get just one 2009 plus 2 of the other 3, so I guess that's your odds!

bsevern wrote:How are the earlier bottles of Viognier holding up?

Also are they drink now, or did you make these to age?

Rhône whites tend to age pretty well in general. It's probably a little strong to say that we made them to be aged, but rather we didn't make them not to be aged. I would say that the older Viogniers in this deal are in the drink-now zone. I don't really have a sense yet of how much longer they can go - they all have that nice roundness that Viogniers get with age.

klezman wrote:Hey El Jefe, howcome the pH on the 2009 Torcido and 2008 Murgatroyd are significantly higher than all the rest? How does that affect the ageability?

2008 and 2009 were both very warm ripening seasons so we did get higher pH on some of the varieties. As far as aging goes, one general rule of thumb I've heard is anything under 4 is good, but it's wine ;) I'm expecting them to age well because our wines have shown good aging in general.

Can these ship to NV? I don't see it on the list. But I do see NV on the Twisted Oak site, so hopefully I can keep my wine club membership.

eljefetwisted wrote:2008 and 2009 were both very warm ripening seasons so we did get higher pH on some of the varieties. As far as aging goes, one general rule of thumb I've heard is anything under 4 is good, but it's wine ;) I'm expecting them to age well because our wines have shown good aging in general.

Cool...and with the higher pH/lower acidity do they still ring with your general house style of nice acid balance and not being overripe? Or was it just too warm and the flavours are all more jammy dark fruit than previously?

chemvictim wrote:Can these ship to NV? I don't see it on the list. But I do see NV on the Twisted Oak site, so hopefully I can keep my wine club membership.

Actually NV is showing up on some offers but not others... Here is the complete list for woot sales; I've sent an email to the woot powers asking to fix it.

AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, IA, KS, LA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MO, NV, NH, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OR, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, and WY

klezman wrote:Cool...and with the higher pH/lower acidity do they still ring with your general house style of nice acid balance and not being overripe? Or was it just too warm and the flavours are all more jammy dark fruit than previously?

They do head more in the dark fruit direction but not overripe. I'm not a big fan of overripe jamminess either.

Where's the B!tchSlap PS?

Sigh. You always do this to me. Offers either right after I've just bought a case of stuff or right when I have no money in the budget.

I shake my fist at thee!

That reminds me, I need to go see if I got the "wrong" bottles that April called about...

So, Murgatroyd, Viognier, or both?

redwinefan wrote:So, Murgatroyd, Viognier, or both?

I'm in a similar debate. The *%#&@!, Viognier, or both? Tough decision.

Completed the trifecta (Zeppelin/Iron Horse/Twisted Oak) for today and got Twisted with the Potty Mouth!

Woot gods - I already have quite a few of the '09s - soooo really crossing my fingers for the 03, 05 and 06! Please!!

Debate over. I got both

Woot you got me today... I got the Zeppelin, the *%#&@!, and the Viognier(Only because I want to try more whites). My wallet is not happy.

cheron98 wrote:Sigh. You always do this to me. Offers either right after I've just bought a case of stuff or right when I have no money in the budget.

I shake my fist at thee!

Same boat...just as I'm about to place an order to go along with my replacement bottles from the post-crash cooking. Going to be another expensive week. *sigh*

bhodilee wrote:Where's the B!tchSlap PS?

Not enough PS to make a vertical woot plus deal. But I'll come up with something, stay tuned...

cheron98 wrote:Sigh. You always do this to me. Offers either right after I've just bought a case of stuff or right when I have no money in the budget.

I shake my fist at thee!

That reminds me, I need to go see if I got the "wrong" bottles that April called about...

They swore me to secrecy. I value my fingernails.

eljefetwisted wrote:Not enough PS to make a vertical woot plus deal. But I'll come up with something, stay tuned...

Oh - go on .....

When might this ship? I'm out of the country until the june 25th, and while I might be able to catch it and routed it to the fedex office, it would be nicer if I was there to receive it.

tiger7610 wrote:When might this ship? I'm out of the country until the june 25th, and while I might be able to catch it and routed it to the fedex office, it would be nicer if I was there to receive it.

Looking at the calendar, Woot will probably be after me to get them the wine next week, and I need to drive out that way anyway on the 14th. That means they'll probably send it the week of the 18th.

Fine you twisted my arm, I'm moving in a month whats another few bottles of wine to carry up the stairs right?

eljefetwisted wrote:They swore me to secrecy. I value my fingernails.

Is that why April called us re the Viognier, on a holiday no less,because she values her fingernails, too? (; She probably has prettier nails!

Thanks for the great service re the Viognier; we had opened a bottle just the day before, wondered if we should let you know, then, we get a phone call!

Folks, I have just received almost 2 cases of TO wines in the last 2 weeks, otherwise I'd hop on the deal. It really is a nice spread of wines.

I happen to really enjoy viognier, and these are made in a more traditional style, and they have aged well. The Tempranillo definitely needs a few hours of air, and is quite enjoyable.

sanity wrote:Is that why April called us re the Viognier, on a holiday no less,because she values her fingernails, too? (; She probably has prettier nails!

Thanks for the great service re the Viognier; we had opened a bottle just the day before, wondered if we should let you know, then, we get a phone call!

Folks, I have just received almost 2 cases of TO wines in the last 2 weeks, otherwise I'd hop on the deal. It really is a nice spread of wines.

I happen to really enjoy viognier, and these are made in a more traditional style, and they have aged well. The Tempranillo definitely needs a few hours of air, and is quite enjoyable.

Yes, the 2009 is still settling down, but once it opens up there's a lot going on!

eljefetwisted wrote:They swore me to secrecy. I value my fingernails.

Oh bollocks, missed it, and it's nice and old too! Any more in your cupboard?

richardhod wrote:Oh bollocks, missed it, and it's nice and old too! Any more in your cupboard?

If so, let me know and I can include it in my order to replace cooked bottles from the Vegas trip...split shipping is a good thing. Even better if there's enough to make a whole case!

Sure wish I had some TO Viognier to sip on this fine weekend!

Anyone get their TO from this offer yet?

Mine arrived yesterday. I got two orders each of these:

Twisted Oak *%#&@! Red Rhone Blend (Random) 3-Pack
Twisted Oak Viognier (Random) 3-Pack


The variety in the six bottles of Viognier was well mixed, including a 2005 Twisted Oak Viognier.

The Red Rhone Blend was a little lack luster in the mix. 3 of the 6 bottles were all 2009's, and then one bottle each of the other vints.

I hope this stuff is good!