BerserkerDay 11 - How did you do?

I planned to dial it back a lot this year, but ended up with 69 bottles, which was thirty more than last year (and which takes my total BD purchases between BD V and BD XI over the 500 bottle mark), with wine purchases from:

Briceland*
Di Costanzo
Fogline*
Goodfellow*
Halcon
JB Neufeld
Kelley Fox*
Riverain*
Salt Vine
Sojourn*
Terrien

  • means I have bought from them before

I also bought some of Charlie’s caviar, Grassl Mineralite stems and a decanter, and Flannery porterhouses and a pichana. At least I expanded my horizons with 5 new producers.

A case, some stems, and some beef.

Decided to play around today:

Astrea Caviar
Veleta Paella/Tinned Seafood
Paetra Riesling
Sandler Pinot
Violin Pinot
Franny Beck Chardonnay/Pinot
Tercero Rose
Scherrer Old Vine Zin

With exception to Astrea Caviar and Tercero, none of these board favorites were in my wheelhouse. Should be fun!

You might have a new wheelhouse!

Stems, some 82 las cases, and maybe half a dozen wines. Pretty low key day for me.

Tercero - gotta buy Rose’ and excited to try the new one
Sojourn - gotta buy Gap’s Crown Pinot and Home Ranch Cab
Jean Edwards - always get their Cabs
Sabelli-Frisch - these sound too fun to pass on
Veleta Gourmet - love the fishes
Scherrer - love the Zins and Fred
A Thing of Beauty - unlike some of you, I don’t really need anything to make me more beautiful [wow.gif] but hey, stay ahead of the curve

About 4 cases…

Riverain Syrah
Salt Vine Cab
Goodfellow Berserker Chard
82 and 89 LLC
Ribeyes

First BD day I’ve participated in but certainly not the last.

I think I did really well!

kept it to a case between Goodfellow’s Berserker Cuvees and Kelley Fox Hyland Courys, then grabbed a couple Grassl Glasses to test out… way too good a price to pass up!

WineCheck
Flannery
Coffee
Young Hagen

I had no plans to buy anything today…oops!

I was proud of myself for exercising restraint. That said, I’m excited about my ~2 cases or so between Riverain, Sandler, Cabot, and Franny Beck wines.

Salt Vine
Zalto decanter

Debating coffee, Flannery and Riverain. Still time to spend more.

From the winery side, this was our first BD and it was simply awesome.

This literally made me smile

My wine budget is lower than usual, but I still got a few things I’m looking forward to:

  • 2 Grassl Mineralité for all of my Rieslings
  • 2 Dandi Sauvignon Blancs
  • 1 Liquid Farm La Hermana Chardonnay
  • 1 Liquid Farm White Hill Chardonnay
  • 2 2016 Salt Vine Cabs
  • 1 Say When/ RASI Pinot Noir (this is the only thing I ordered that I knew/know nothing about, but the offer was great)

Thanks again…and I’m gonna give Alex Russan a big kiss because he turned me on to this.

Well managed so far; stems, Di Co, Liquid Farm.

Video or ban

Next year could be much bigger for you if you do!

12 tins of sardines and 9 bottles of Scherrer

Which is 21 items more,than I hoped to buy. But I really can’t regret it.

One case total:

Liquid Farm:
2x 2016 Golden Slope Chardonnay
2x 2017 White Hill Chardonnay
2x 2018 Rosé of Mourvédre

Franny Beck:
2 x 2016 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir
2 x 2017 Johan Vineyard Pinot noir
2 x 2017 La Chenaie Vineyard Pinot Noir

Both are new to me and I’m very excited to try them!