Big Basin Vineyards - Santa Cruz & Gabilan Mountain Pinots/Rhones a la Carte + Free Shipping

Greetings Berserkers,

What we love about Berserker Day is the opportunity to explore new wines and wine regions. This year, we hope you will choose to explore two exceptional wine-growing regions that still remain largely overlooked: the Santa Cruz Mountain and Gabilan Mountain ranges.

Big Basin is dedicated to working with Burgundian and Rhone varietals from the ocean-influenced, mountain vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountain and Gabilan Mountain ranges. Our wines are handcrafted in very small lots, with minimal intervention and using only indigenous yeast and malolactic fermentations. We bottle our wines unfined and unfiltered and by keeping our cellar clean, we avoid microbial issues that would otherwise obscure the beauty of the vineyards. After all, great wines are about great vineyards and we aim to authentically and transparently convey these exceptional locations. We produce on average 3,500 cases per year.

Proprietor Bradley Brown crafts some of the most compelling, small-production artisan wines in California’s Central Coast. With each passing year, the wines are more refined and polished, making Big Basin one of the most dynamic up and coming wineries in the state.” - Antonio Galloni, Vinous, July 2013

Bradley Brown continues to fashion some of the top Syrahs and GSM blends in California

  • Jeb Dunnuck, The Rhone Report. December 2012

To the Berserker Community, we are making all of the wines in our online store available to you. Make your own selections of what you would like to try and we will ship them to your door at no charge (three bottle minimum). To visit our store / order, click HERE (be sure to look at the Library Section for a few special offerings…)

Enter Promo Code BERSERKER at last step of check out (under order summary) for free shipping.

If you sign up online for one of our wine clubs (two shipment commitment, first shipment arrives in April), or already are a member, we are offering a special bottle discount on your Berserker Day purchase:
Three Bottle Club - 15% discount on your purchase today
Six Bottle Club - 20% discount on your purchase today
Once membership is verified, we will manually apply above applicable discount to your order before final processing
Learn more about our wine club HERE

A preview of wines in our store include:
2010 Woodruff Vineyard Pinot Noir - 35+ year old, dry farmed, four-acre vineyard. (We share this with Wind Gap and Ghostwriter)
2011 Coastview Vineyard Pinot Noir - Located six miles due south of Calera’s Mt. Harlan AVA, with similar decomposed granite/limestone soils, this exceptional vineyard is the highest in Monterey county located at 2,500ft.
2007 Rattlesnake Rock Syrah - a special library selection of our estate wine made available only on Berserker Day.
2011 Paderewski Vineyard GSM- from a Justin Smith vineyard project planted for Epoch Estate

To best convey our vision and story (and aide your purchasing research), please watch this: [vimeo]62418813[/vimeo]

Please email any questions to Matt(at)BigBasinVineyards.com, or call the winery 831-621-8028 (we are prepping to bottle wine on Tuesday, if we miss your call, leave a message)

Thanks for your consideration and we hope you choose to experience some of our wines for yourself.

-Bradley, JP, Matt & Erin [cheers.gif]

BerserkerBusiness - open for sale 1/26/14

I’ve had a few emails asking where to enter the promo code BERSERKER to get free shipping; at the very last step of check out, below the order summary, ‘Add Promotion’. Sadly, the text is rather small. We’ll definitely get our web guy to improve visibility going forward.

If you have any trouble, shoot me an email Matt@BigBasinVineyards.com and we’ll make it happen.

Thanks so much for the orders thus far Berserkers!