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Officer, officer! Calm down! There’s a perfectly good explanation for why I’m out here on this beach drinking bottles of White Oak wine and then smashing them with a rock; it’s because I like to help people!
You see, sea glass is becoming harder to find these days since companies are making more and more products out of plastic. Well, I just happen to have all these bottles of 2006 White Oak Napa Valley Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon at home, and I was feeling a little bit greedy hoarding all that glass, so I thought, “Hey! Why don’t I break a few bottles down and introduce some new shards into the ecosystem?” And now here I am, just helping out the collectors and the artisans! On a private beach! At 1am!
Oh but of course, I needed to drink the wine before smashing the bottles, officer. Don’t be ridiculous! I just had to relish in the merlot’s bright fruit notes of black cherry, vanilla, coffee, and chocolate; and the Cab Sauv’s flavors of currant, black plum, and tea, which are supported by its ripe tannins, by the way.
I mean, what else would you have me do? Just pour all that wine out on the sand? Officer, that’s called littering, and last time I checked littering is illegal!
Features
- Appellation: Napa Valley
- Varietal Blend: 90% Merlot (Clones 1 & 181), 10% Cabernet Sauvignon
- Soil: Volcanic soils, strong gravel outcroppings with 20% Serpentine soil and shale deposits.
- Elevation: 1400 feet.
- Harvest: Manually harvested. Picked at optimum ripeness. Hand sorted in the vineyard
- Aging: 18 months in 50% new Bordeaux style French and Hungarian Oak barrels. Racked quarterly to aid the natural clarification.
- Bottled May 12, 2008
- Alcohol: 14.5%
- Specific Gravity: 0.9931 @ 20 C
- Glucose + Fructose: 22 mg/100mL
- Titratable Acidity: 0.623 g/100mL
- Total SO2: 63 mg/L
- Sorbic Acid: None detected
- Citric Acid: None detected
- Volatile Acidity: 0.080 g/100mL
- Appellation: Napa Valley
- Varietal Blend: 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc
- Soil: Volcanic soils, strong gravel outcroppings with 20% Serpentine soil and shale deposits.
- Elevation: 1400 feet.
- Harvest: Manually harvested. Picked at optimum ripeness.
- Aging: Aged in 50% new oak barrels for 20 months. 90% French, 10% Hungarian. Bottled June 17, 2008.
- Winemaker: Bill Parker
- Alcohol: 14.5%
- Production: 6,379 cases
Specs
2006 Napa Valley Merlot 750ml2006 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 750ml
Specs
2006 Napa Valley Merlot 750ml2006 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 750ml
Vendor Details
White Oak Vineyard & Winery
- Founded:
- 1981
- Owner:
- Bill Myers
- Location:
- Healdsburg, CA
Sales Stats
- Speed to First Woot:
- 3m 52.000s
Purchaser Experience
Purchaser Seniority
Quantity Breakdown
Percentage of Sales Per Hour
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