TastingRoom.com Taste Adventure Wine Sampler Box 2-Pack
$39.99 (Normally $59.90) 33% off List Price

A Taste Adventure Red & White Essentials:
2010 Dry Creek Vineyard Dry Creek Valley Sauvignon Blanc 50ml
2011 Chamisal "Stainless" Central Coast Chardonnay 50ml
2010 The Doctors' Marlborough Riesling 50ml
2010 Old Coach Road Nelson Pinot Noir 50ml
2009 Twisted Oak "*%#&@!" Red Blend 50ml
2008 Urraca Mendoza Cabernet Sauvignon 50ml

A Taste Adventure Food Friendly Wines:
2011 Lake Chalice Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 50ml
2008 Urraca Mendoza Chardonnay 50ml
2009 Lucas & Lewellen Santa Barbara County Chenin Blanc 50ml
2010 Il Cuore "The Heart" Mendocino County Barbera 50ml
2009 Stickybeak California Syrah 50ml
2009 Penley Estate "Condor" Coonawarra Red Blend 50ml
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Cesare, I feel your linky pain on this one.

Great for bringing on the plane. The will fit nicely in your little plastic bag and are small enough to qualify to get passed security.

So, for $40, you get less than one bottle of wine, and not enough of anything to pour a glass?

My girlfriend is really into wine. I'm clueless when it comes to wine. Her birthday is next month. Would this be a fun gift for her?

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Red and White Essentials

Food-Friendly Wines

Looks like the MSRP is correct, worth about $30/each, so a solid discount.

Seems like a good holiday gift to have on hand in case you forget someone. Plus, you can always drink it yourself...on an airplane.

$40 for almost a full bottle of wine! It's a steal!

As a lover of all things twisted, I can tell you that at least one of those wines is absolutely delicious.

*%#&@!

check out www.twistedoak.com for more spanish rhone blends and delicious tempranillo mmmmmmmmm

I did a tastingroom.com living social special last year, basically you ended up with two tasting kits of Napa cabs for ~ $30.

It was fun, the wines were good, BUT these bottles are TINY....50ML is about the smallest pour you will ever receive from the stingiest of wineries. That said, the samplers I had included two bottles of $85 cabs....or 100ML of a bottle of $85 cab, it was good, and I was happy.

This isn't a bad deal for some fun tasting a variety of nice wines.

Keep in mind 50ml is about a fifth of a cup (0.211338 cups to be precise).

My initial thought was what a fun possible treat / icebreaker on a flight, but i think Oz limits are 3.
What a shame.

rosstx wrote:My initial thought was what a fun possible treat / icebreaker on a flight, but i think Oz limits are 3.
What a shame.

No
As bkarlan said above:

bkarlan wrote:Great for bringing on the plane. The will fit nicely in your little plastic bag and are small enough to qualify to get passed security.

The liquid limit is 3.4 ounce (100ml) so these are fine.

My mistake the Mil's work out to 1.6907 oz. So there a tad bigger than the airline bottle of alcohol.

The Stickybeak wine is listed as Syrah but the picture is Pinot Noir.
Assuming Syrah is correct since that is what tastingroom.com shows but can we get confirmation?

A newly informed perspective from other flyers comments on legalize.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travelbuzz/950366-mini-alcohol-carry.html

hmmmmm... I feel compelled to buy this as props for my 1/3 size dolls...

Take the last drop of every tiny bottle and mix them all together. The result...It's a secret to everybody.

mikop168 wrote:hmmmmm... I feel compelled to buy this as props for my 1/3 size dolls...

If you set the lights and music just right, and make sure to leave the room. The next day you will mysteriously end up with additional dolls that are 1/12.

When I saw the size of the bottles I was tempted to click away... but, then I looked at the picture of the miniature bottles in their box, and they just looked so adorable I think I'm going to have to go for this, plus I figure I can get two and me and a friend can have an at home tasting, and by the end we'll have each had a bit less than a bottle of wine, so we should be pretty nicely tipsy... though if we'll have any thoughts at all about the quality of each wine is questionable.

When you factor in the 14 dollars for shipping, it is an even bigger discount.

rosstx wrote:My mistake the Mil's work out to 1.6907 oz. So there a tad bigger than the airline bottle of alcohol.

Actually, the mini bottles of liquor you get on airplanes are 50 ml, so these are exactly the same size. (For comparison, the single serving wine bottles are usually 187 ml.)

lostaxic wrote:Actually, the mini bottles of liquor you get on airplanes are 50 ml, so these are exactly the same size. (For comparison, the single serving wine bottles are usually 187 ml.)

i.e. They are tiny. 50ml X 6 bottles X 2 boxes = 600 ml which is still less than one standard bottle (750 ml).

mikegberg wrote:So, for $40, you get less than one bottle of wine, and not enough of anything to pour a glass?

you're looking at it ALL WRONG. These are obviously meant to be the classiest shots ever. At least, I've always felt better than everyone else when I do shots of wine. Or most anything, but I'm kind of a tattle tale so don't listen to me.

tfreeman451 wrote:My girlfriend is really into wine. I'm clueless when it comes to wine. Her birthday is next month. Would this be a fun gift for her?

Actually yes, if she hates it and breaks up with you, buy twelve remote control boats, use these to christen all of them. you win either way.

bhodilee wrote:Actually yes, if she hates it and breaks up with you, buy twelve remote control boats, use these to christen all of them. you win either way.

+12 I don't know that was just really funny, or if I just haven't coffee yet.

I've had the IlCoure Barbera... Very good. Looking for more.

lostaxic wrote:Actually, the mini bottles of liquor you get on airplanes are 50 ml, so these are exactly the same size. (For comparison, the single serving wine bottles are usually 187 ml.)

Exactly. These are the size as airplane bottles of liquor.

A cute idea. They strike me as just the sort of gift for a wine geek to be given by someone for whom the value of money is irrelevant and who knows too little to select something interesting. From my curmudgeon's perspective, the value in the proposition just isn't there. If the bottles were 200 ml, it might be a reasonable deal, but 50 ml?

I wonder if they have a teeny tiny bottling line to fill these little guys. Or if some poor cellar rat has to sit there with a funnel.

This would be a fun product if you love to cook and want to experiment with creating small plates to pair with each wine. At this price buy two sets and it's the perfect pour for each person plus you have enough for two dinners. I make multi course wine paired dinners for hubby and I on New Years Eve. It's fun but I am left with nine open bottles of wine to try to use up the following week.

Well then, now we know where they get the stock for these.

A regular bottle is 750 ml, so all 10 or 12 of these mini 50ml bottles do not add up to a bottle...if i can add correctly. will pass

All screwtops...that means I couldn't use my teensy-tiny corkscrew that I made from a ball-point pen spring and a match stick.

seemed like a cool gift to get until i saw how much it is + shipping ... and especially how small the bottles are.

pass

North316 wrote:+12 I don't know that was just really funny, or if I just haven't coffee yet.

No, that's really, really funny!!!

This is a great opportunity to try out my daughter's Barbie corkscrew.


Wait, screw tops. Never mind...

edorth wrote:This is a great opportunity to try out my daughter's Barbie corkscrew.


Wait, screw tops. Never mind...

I dunno, if you're really really diligent (read stupid) you can absolutely cut through a screw top with the wheeled foil cutter on your waiters corkscrew.