stillmanbrown wrote:I'm back, and semi-awake!

Good morning!!

Thanks Swilly - in for 2 without question. I'm smelling a sell-out so all you fencesitters better get in early.

At this rate I should just post my phone number and have people call me with individual questions . . . oh wait, I've done that before. I do need to check on the Tempranillo, Tannat, Counoise on Gill's hill to decide when to pick, and then the Verdejo which has fermented out and will be a hopefully very quickly bottled Chateau d'Abalone.

cortot20 wrote:Very tempting but with two cases pending shipment and Tuesday's woot-off I don't think I can do it. This does truly seem like an awesome deal though.

This Tuesday is a woot off? How do you know?

I very much enjoyed the Black Zepplin PS so I'm in for two. Feel much safer ordering now because the temps here in north TX have dipped below the boiling point...

srwatters wrote:I very much enjoyed the Black Zepplin PS so I'm in for two. Feel much safer ordering now because the temps here in north TX have dipped below the boiling point...

I saw the weather too . . . about time!

vannknight wrote:This Tuesday is a woot off? How do you know?

I have telepathy but only for upcoming woot-offs.
Last weeks newsletter said there would be one Tuesday through Wednesday of this week.

stillmanbrown wrote:At this rate I should just post my phone number and have people call me with individual questions . . . oh wait, I've done that before. I do need to check on the Tempranillo, Tannat, Counoise on Gill's hill to decide when to pick, and then the Verdejo which has fermented out and will be a hopefully very quickly bottled Chateau d'Abalone.

Please say your going to bottle that Counoise by itself I would love to try that.
Your fellow winemaker Dave potter down in SB bottles a Counoise that is awesome.

cortot20 wrote:I have telepathy but only for upcoming woot-offs.
Last weeks newsletter said there would be one Tuesday through Wednesday of this week.

I heard they were going to announce it, and this after all those times the wine monkeys told me that they'd kill me if I ever leaked info. "I smell marketing."

cortot20 wrote:Please say your going to bottle that Counoise by itself I would love to try that.
Your fellow winemaker Dave potter down in SB bottles a Counoise that is awesome.

There's not enough to make fermentation volume - half a ton is what I think of as a minimum. It's going to be a dryfarm hillside blend.
I haven't had his, or even seen it?

cortot20 wrote:Please say your going to bottle that Counoise by itself I would love to try that.
Your fellow winemaker Dave potter down in SB bottles a Counoise that is awesome.

Tablas Creek makes an awsome one.

stillmanbrown wrote:There's not enough to make fermentation volume - half a ton is what I think of as a minimum. It's going to be a dryfarm hillside blend.
I haven't had his, or even seen it?

It may only go to his club members as I think he makes under 100 cases. But your blend sounds equally awesome.

Next year pick your colossus syrah earlier and go for a more restrained style and name it shadow of the colossus syrah. Game/wine nerds will fall deeply and madly in love with you.

trifecta wrote:Tablas Creek makes an awsome one.

They make a lot of very nice wines. I need to stop by there soon, maybe this week?

cortot20 wrote:It may only go to his club members as I think he makes under 100 cases. But your blend sounds equally awesome.

Next year pick your colossus syrah earlier and go for a more restrained style and name it shadow of the colossus syrah. Game/wine nerds will fall deeply and madly in love with you.

More stalkers? Awesome! Seriously, it's just not 'ripe' at 23-25.5 - I'd pick early if a monsoon threatened, but not otherwise. I've made sub-14 Syrah from other vineyards, and only broke 16% on any variety once in 25 years until I started the Colossus. Need to go check on the vineyard again this morning, btw.

stillmanbrown wrote:...and then the Verdejo which has fermented out and will be a hopefully very quickly bottled Chateau d'Abalone.

Does this mean the Chateau won't be Grenache Blanc this year?

In for two. I don't know these but I've loved everything Zeppelin I've had so far.

redwinefan wrote:Does this mean the Chateau won't be Grenache Blanc this year?

There will be two, Verdejo first. Still hoping to find the right artist to depict Cthulhu tearing down the Morro Bay Power Plant stacks.

mstern20878 wrote:In for two. I don't know these but I've loved everything Zeppelin I've had so far.

(aw shucks)

stillmanbrown wrote:There will be two, Verdejo first. Still hoping to find the right artist to depict Cthulhu tearing down the Morro Bay Power Plant stacks.

Sweet, two is better than one! The 2011 Chateau D'Abalone is fantastic.

redwinefan wrote:Sweet, two is better than one! The 2011 Chateau D'Abalone is fantastic.

Thanks! That's Grenache Blanc with a bit of Viognier. The Verdejo will be the first 'coastal' CA Verdejo bottled, or close to it. I had a marvelous Rueda the other night, will be interesting to see how mine shapes up. I would have liked it a little cooler around here this season, but as it was a graftover from last year the yield was only 1.6 T/A this year. I've got pix up on my blog, it's one of the more recent posts at stillmanbrown.com

Hey Stillman,

I know you drink everything young but how long would you hold the cab for in a poor man's cellar (read: box in the basement away from the furnace)?

I predict a sellout by 2pm PST.

Just made a disappointing trip to Paso Robles and only bought 1 bottle the whole time I was there. Buying more from my work desk, in for one.

Looks like we are getting close to a sellout, I really want to go in on this too... okay, I'm sold. The flashing yellow button tempts me once again.

Where are you sourcing your grapes from? Just got back from a paso/Healdsburg trip last night. Damn long flight back to Florida

cortot20 wrote:Very tempting but with two cases pending shipment and Tuesday's woot-off I don't think I can do it. This does truly seem like an awesome deal though.

Oh god woot off Tuesday, gonna be an expensive week.

ZeroFlame007 wrote:Looks like we are getting close to a sellout, I really want to go in on this too... okay, I'm sold. The flashing yellow button tempts me once again.

That flashing yellow button got me too! Garrr...actually I'm excited for these wines. My "cellar"...err...closet is starting to get a few open slots. Might as well fill 'em!

stillmanbrown wrote:Thanks! That's Grenache Blanc with a bit of Viognier. The Verdejo will be the first 'coastal' CA Verdejo bottled, or close to it. I had a marvelous Rueda the other night, will be interesting to see how mine shapes up. I would have liked it a little cooler around here this season, but as it was a graftover from last year the yield was only 1.6 T/A this year. I've got pix up on my blog, it's one of the more recent posts at stillmanbrown.com

I am in for a case of the new Ch. Abalone!

loveladyelectric wrote:Just made a disappointing trip to Paso Robles and only bought 1 bottle the whole time I was there. Buying more from my work desk, in for one.

We too were just there, stayed at melody ranch in downtown . Come to think of it only brought back 1bottle also. Now having shipped is a different story.
Love paso and the area, would move there but....
Funny the complete difference east side and west side are and the soils.

Wooooot hoooooooo!! Almost caught asleep at the wheel! These are AWESOME wines and looky who got the last...

Last Wooter to Woot:
montegobayjr

ERMD wrote:We too were just there, stayed at melody ranch in downtown . Come to think of it only brought back 1bottle also. Now having shipped is a different story.
Love paso and the area, would move there but....
Funny the complete difference east side and west side are and the soils.

Well come on back down to Santa Barbara County, why don't you!!!!!

Cheers!

flipflopfrank wrote:I was there for the picking / crush etc....
Prior to the actual harvest, 3 times a week, picking berries to sample for all that stuff winemakers do before the harvest, so that it is picked at peak perfection.
Not to mention dodging deer, turkeys, quail, owls (there was an owl) and suicidal bicylists who think they own the roads (though I would give props to the deer, as they were there first, so to speak)...
Anywho - get this deal, and be the envy of your neighbourhood...
oh, and cheers!

Plus there's this, which is beyond epic and I never tire of watching.

stillmanbrown wrote:My 55th birthday party, here Oct 5-6. Poster/invite is at StillmanBrown.com

is the limit when the baggies run out?

rockoverlondon wrote:Hey Stillman,

I know you drink everything young but how long would you hold the cab for in a poor man's cellar (read: box in the basement away from the furnace)?

Errrr um what? That's a tough one!!!

ERMD wrote:Where are you sourcing your grapes from? Just got back from a paso/Healdsburg trip last night. Damn long flight back to Florida

Colossus is Gill VYD west Paso, Cab is a secret- lawsuit grade secret, sorry, famous Westside VYD, and a bit of Brady CF and PS.

tercerowines wrote:Well come on back down to Santa Barbara County, why don't you!!!!!

Cheers!

Larry, you Know I love me some SB wines! Unfortunate we didn't get a chance to get down that way, the other couple(dan and patti, wine shop owners from Iowa) wanted to go north on this trip to Healdsberg. You know me, I will be back out that way soon and will visit/ dinner when we get back there.
George

Okay, gotta go now, been sampling all morning, now it's lab and winery time. Questions, slackers, sulkers and sell-out victims email me at StillmanB@aol.com and see you at SPEED LIMIT!
StillmanBrown.com

stillmanbrown wrote:Colossus is Gill VYD west Paso, Cab is a secret- lawsuit grade secret, sorry, famous Westside VYD, and a bit of Brady CF and PS.

Damn it, I knew I should have pulled the trigger

redwinefan wrote:I predict a sellout by 2pm PST.

And way before noon. Clearly Stillman didn't allocate enough juice to WD to satisfy the masses.