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I'd never been fully sold on any Evangelho wine. Until now. 2019 Dirty and Rowdy Mourvèdre Old Vine Evangelho Vineyard - USA, California, San Francisco Bay, Contra Costa County (1/14/2021) Easily my favorite Evangelho from any producer. I forgot this was Mourvèdre and kept thinking it a zin. Defini...

D@vid Bu3ker wrote: ↑January 8th, 2021, 4:45 pm
I took one sniff, one sip, and the wine just screamed OAKVILLE!

This.

Great people.

Just opened my first bottle of the Zin and WOW that is some acid=packed=punch. Some intense floral notes on the nose, not-quite-ripe red plum, some savory herbs in the background. The acidity is bright and deep and lasts for days. So much going on here. I would never guess zin (well, I haven't boug...

Scott G r u n e r wrote: ↑January 7th, 2021, 1:51 pm I have no idea how it manages to spread grinds all over the counter every morning though- it *looks* like a closed system, but yet every morning I wipe off a bunch of grinds off my counters.

+1 on this.

Will Clements wrote: ↑December 29th, 2020, 4:12 pm Dirty and Rowdy bottles are almost perfect

Thank you. We've always used US made lightweight bottles (except for sparkling). Both the BDX and Burg shape fit nicely in eurocave racks.

Ed Steinway wrote: ↑December 22nd, 2020, 6:10 am One that I do not believe has been mentioned yet is Frog's Leap, and they are a nice value.

I can't think of a better value in Napa - Relatively affordable and age beautifully.

+1s on Corison. Togni. Spottswoode.

Trying to educate / fight customers on why or how much they should pay for shipping doesn't make them happier customers.

Shipping is a major cost. Figure out how much you want to charge for it. Price wines accordingly.

Is it 100% Heintz though? Matthiasson lists Ultramarine as one of their clients for their Michael Mara vineyard. The label says Heintz vineyard. Oh who cares anyway. It’s not like California has hundreds of years of terroir expression to defend. Given that it’s on the label, I believe it needs to b...

Thanks for the re-orders, Brad and Brian

The 2016 white is really something with the mackerel (add extra capers for the win!). We are psyched everyone is trying it!

Shipping costs are as real as fruit, labor, equipment, etc. In a world where shipping for almost every other consumer good is subsidized or included, wineries can either fight against the trend and lose or figure out how to incorporate subsidized or included ($1) shipping in their business. and no, ...

Thank you everyone for a crazy and wonderful week of drops. The web traffic each AM at 9AM PST was insane. We have the max hosting / bandwidth etc that we can buy and still, we were nearly crashing the site each day. I will not share the # of bottles per drop but each drop was a significant amount (...

Thank you everyone.

I've been paranoid of the site crashing every day. Today had the most people on all week and I was convinced it was going down. (hands still shaking here)

Huge thanks for everyone that got in. Happy to share the last bit of 2019 The Legends!

Opened the 2016 Antle tonight in honor of the magnum release. Man this wine is singing. Vibrant raspberry, blueberry and strawberry. A serious streak of acid and citrus down the middle. This is so good with quite a few years ahead of it. Thank you! I opened one the other night when writing the note...

Yes. The color on White Oak Flats is always been brickish -even going into bottle. It is odd as it is not a high pH wine. I had a 16 White Oak Flats in the house and opened it while making coffee- for science ! It should be mineral, floral, and have a lot of fruit and crunchy / granular tannin. If y...

Brian- Sorry to hear about the wine. The description of the White Oak Flats definitely sounds like an off bottle. I'm happy to make a replacement / exchange. The color on both looks spot on- White Oak Flats was always our last pick and struggled to get color every year while the Stoney Creek site ri...

Thanks everyone! That was crazy. We were waiting for the right time to release those and today felt like the day!

Yes- on this one we allowed 2 per as this was the initial release of these mags. Many grabbed singles and a lot of folks were able to get some.

JoeD wrote: ↑December 8th, 2020, 8:03 am Any truth to the rumors that hand signed Magnums of D&R+E will be offered?

Dang! I wish. I'm down to personal stash after the event earlier this year. Look out for D&R+E 2020. We will make sure to bottle a few scuba tanks.

I tried the '15 Shake Ridge on Sunday night- It is very very very good. The price doesn't make any sense.

Also, '14 Pretty Horses is awesome right now.

Thank you everyone. That was the fastest one yet.

This wine is in such a crazy good place right now and is showing no signs of slowing down. (still hold 1.5Ls if you have them).

Thanks everyone! THAT was fast.

I forgot to turn off shipping charges on the Chard. I have gone in and manually refunded all shipping as of a few min ago. We will apply shipping at the end of the Dec Drop.

See you tomorrow AM!

THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE. VALIDATION IS HERE. I WILL BATH IN THIS JUICE AND BE BORN ANEW IN THE SPLENDOR OF ITS MAGNIFICENCE. [worship.gif] Ha! It feels great to win / score! Congrats to you and all that snagged some yesterday and today. There are a lot more fun / special wines popping u...

Wow. That. Was. Fast. Thank you everyone. That was 2-3min.

I thought our site was going to crash.

Andrew- We made 10 cases of 1.5L.

Thanks again- We will see you tomorrow AM!

Every drop varies in size and all are small. We went this route as we did not have enough wine this year for our annual odds & ends release and still want to give people a shot at some gems. If you were able to get a 14 Skinner White Oak Flats today, or have some in the cellar- Congrats! I think...

My apologies to those who had a delayed email. It looks like due to the size of our list, Mailchimp batched up emails this am and sent them out over the course of 10 min (even though they were programmed to go at 9AM PST). For the next drops, I will send the email out at 8:45AM PST (so everyone shou...

Congrats to all who got a bottle. (There is a 1 bottle per person limit)

I expect every day of the drop to have a similar response - 5-10 min until sold out. There is a max of 1 bottle per person and we will calculate shipping at the end of the run.

Best of luck to everyone going for it.

GGG breakage. We use GGG at the winery for tastings (I even use them in cellar) and they are our main stem at the house. Over 4-5 years - 3 have broken during tastings, 1 in the house, 1 in my flimsy stem case, and zero in the cellar. Though that might seem high purely for household use, the number ...

Thanks, Brian! It was great to see you earlier! The '16 is a super fun and wild white wine. It is 100% Chalone AVA - 50% Antle (now known as Rodnick) Muscat- and 50% Mixed whites (Chenin, Roussanne, Marsane, Vio) from Brosseau. It spent 20 months in neutral barrels, and about 2 1/2 years in bottle. ...

Bdklein wrote: ↑November 14th, 2020, 8:41 am I recently had some SugarBee (derived from Honeycrisp) and they are great!!

I like the SugarBee as well.

Organic Opal apples have been great this year- crunchy, super sweet, and good acid.

I had a Cosmic Crisp earlier in the year which I loved but I can't find any organic.

Thanks for all the support! As many of you know, I have a lot of different interests and loves when it comes to wine- these deeply explore my love for the vibrancy and wildness of raw & natural wines. The wines see zero so2 at any time and I push the boundaries for this genre with extended eleva...

New to D&R - Considering a holiday 3 pack for both my father and father-in-law. Is this a good selection to get them (and me) acquainted with D&R? I would likely be around when the bottles are opened. HOLIDAY 3 PACK $111 2019 Familiar Orange 2018 Fred & Dora's Old Vine Petite Sirah 2019...

Glad the masks are starting to arrive!

We included 2 masks (small / medium and lg/xl) for all orders of a case or more. Unless requested, they went to the shipping address used for the wines.

We just got another shipment of them in and we will be putting them up on the website by the weekend.

I opened a 2015 Familiar this week and had no problem pulling the cork with a Pulltap. 2015 Dirty and Rowdy Mourvèdre FAMILIAR - USA, California (11/5/2020) Crisp brambly fruit and nice acidity, it is still amply gluggable and went well with a veal chop Parmesan. (90 pts.) Thanks, Mike! We opened a...

As far as aging goes, I have not experienced any closure related issues and have had higher levels of consistency than we'd expect with traditional cork. Thanks for posting here, Hardy. I was hoping you would. Have you had wines from other producers sealed with the same closure that have aged longe...

Warren, Thanks for the notes on the '13 Rosewood. That is a wild wine- definitely more gamey vs. the 12 or 15. The '13 Rosewood was sealed with a 2in traditional cork. We started migrating to Nomacorc in '14 with the Familiar wines and moved the vineyard designates into them in '16. We've been huge ...

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Thanks for the note, Glenn. I have not checked in on this one in about 18months or so. The '13 is more tannic than the '12 (and the '15 more tannic than the '13). Mags of these will be put inside my sarcophagus. ;) So leave my 2015 for a very long time then. [cheers.gif] Ha! I think so. I need to o...

Thanks for the note, Glenn. I have not checked in on this one in about 18months or so. The '13 is more tannic than the '12 (and the '15 more tannic than the '13). Mags of these will be put inside my sarcophagus.

H Wallace Jr wrote: ↑October 1st, 2020, 9:52 am
John Telford wrote: ↑September 30th, 2020, 12:57 pm
fires may force sale of libraries for cash flow
edited - personal attack.

The OP and this thread is a personal attack on people that have lost everything, something, or are in great fear of losing everything this vintage.

John Telford wrote: ↑September 30th, 2020, 12:57 pm
fires may force sale of libraries for cash flow

edited - personal attack.

Huge thanks to everyone for the incredible response- though the release ends on Friday we are nearly sold out on the reds.

2019 Brosseau Syrah - 3.5 cases
2019 Sonoma Valley Zin - 4 cases
2019 Evangelho Mourvèdre - 8 cases

The sleeper of this release is the Old Vine Chenin. It is electric.

Fortunately, I was able to wrestle a few bottles out of those stingy 1st Tier bastards clenched hands. Brian, get in there and fight - it's madhouse in there! Ha- Thank you Mike and everyone for the excitement and orders. Jenn and I will be on email most of the day and we are happy to help. [cheers...

NED VALOIS wrote: ↑September 15th, 2020, 10:03 am Is it legal to ship my 6 liter bottles to Florida ?

Just not inside a taxidermied wild cat

Order in.

Also stocked up on the 1/2 bottles.

[worship.gif] [worship.gif] Huge thanks to everyone that is in on the pre-release. The grand release goes live on Thursday. Thank you for all the positive notes above. The Fall wines are indeed bright. Early ventures will benefit from lengthy decants- The wines are light and structured. The Zin is i...

Hardy, I would love to hear details on the site within Brousseau, viticulture, and winemaking for the Brousseau Syrah! Brosseau is awesome. It is a mix of limestone, granite, and volcanic soils at about 1600FT elevation right by the entrance to Pinnacles National Park. The vineyard is organically f...

There is a small pre-release group that has different timing on the emails.

jnbrown wrote: ↑September 12th, 2020, 12:02 pm I just signed up yesterday, but did not get any emails yet.

Joel- Thank you for signing up. Your first email will be on Monday. Welcome aboard!

Keith Levenberg wrote: ↑September 10th, 2020, 5:35 pm Me: Nothing could ever possibly make me want to drink a zinfandel
D&R: "Zin for 70's Space Exploration"
Me: Shut up and take my money

Greetings- We are super psyched for next week's fall release.

Another wine preview popping up in a few min.

Note: Our Old Vine Barbera is not from Bedrock or a vineyard we share together.

At about 6:30 this AM, my daughter and I were headed to our Semillon block in Yountville. From the truck, I saw some massive lightning strikes in the hills east of Yountville / Oakville and decided to make a breakfast pitstop to let the storm pass. By the time we were out of Oakville Grocery, smoke ...

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