Full Pull

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull Reoffers, 5/24/2017

  (For A Song Syrah) Hello friends. Reoffers today on a trio of wines that have been popular reorder targets for the past few months: Originally offered February 6, 2017. Excerpts from the original: This is 100% Syrah, and it comes from three sites under the Sagemoor family of vineyards: Weinbau, Sagemoor, and Wooded Island. It spent sixteen months in barrel, of which 20% were fourth- and fifth-fill (the remainder completely neutral). Aromatically, this has plenty in common with the ’09 and the ’12: lovely white-flower topnotes and espresso bass notes surrounding a core of good Yakima Valley blueberry and boysenberry fruit and silty minerals. The texture (14.4% listed alc) is impressively dense and unctuous for a wine at this price point. There’s a real sense of presence here, of weight and character, and the overall package brings an enormous amount of aesthetic pleasure.

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull For A Song, 2/6/2017

  (For A Song Syrah) Hello friends. The first time we offered today’s wine (2009 vintage), it became our biggest-selling item of all-time (only recently surpassed by the 2012 Secret Squirrel Cab) and essentially forced us to move warehouses. That was back in 2012. The next time we offered it (2012 vintage), it became the biggest mover of 2014 (it’s still in our top five of all time) and made me feel very wise about moving to a large warehouse. Both of those previous vintages went out at 14.99 (13.99 TPU). Today we’re able to do even better: Originally offered February 6, 2017. Excerpts from the original: This is 100% Syrah, and it comes from three sites under the Sagemoor family of vineyards: Weinbau, Sagemoor, and Wooded Island. It spent sixteen months in barrel, of which 20% were fourth- and fifth-fill (the remainder completely neutral). Aromatically, this has plenty in common with the ’09 and the ’12: lovely white-flower topnotes and espresso bass notes surrounding a core of good Yakima Valley blueberry and boysenberry fruit and silty minerals. The texture (14.4% listed alc) is impressively dense and unctuous for a wine at this price point. There’s a real sense of presence here, of weight and character, and the overall package brings an enormous amount of aesthetic pleasure.