A Time-Out For Your Palate
Whoa, there, Barry Allen. Just because you’ve popped that cork, it doesn’t mean you’re ready to chug-a-lug.
We understand, really, we do. This Cathedral Ridge Oregon Red 3 Pack is something you want to try as soon as you possibly can. But you wouldn’t throw raw noodles on a plate and call it a lasagna, would you? You wouldn’t read the first page of Murder On The Orient Express and decide the engineer did it! Then why assume a wine is ready to go at the instant its second the high-quality, very dense cork is removed?
Instead, once you open your wine, we recommend you set it aside, and come back here for an hour. Maybe you can re-read this description, learning a little more about the bottle you’ve chosen to taste.
For example, if you’ve got the 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon breathing in your kitchen, you can be looking forward to the deep aromas of cassis and cool, dark cellar in the nose. Polished tannins and hints of zesty green pepper will soon be captivating your palate, and you’ll be happy with the rich and lasting finish. An hour goes by so quickly these days, doesn’t it? Don’t rush things, let your wine properly blossom!
Or perhaps you’ve opened the 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve. Put on a movie and relax, because after an hour, you’ll be sipping the rich and bold complexities of blackberry, olive, wood and tannin, with a long and memorable finish coming from twenty four months in mellowed French oak. We know, it’s hard as Christmas morning to a child, but wine is for grown-ups, correct? And a grown-up knows: good things come to those who wait.
Now, if you chose the Pinot Noir, well! You must be dreaming of that flavorful mix of cranberry and pomegranate, uniting in subtle tannins. There’s a hint of black olive and fresh fig as well. An excellent food wine, the 2008 Pinot Noir might be open and waiting as you turn those raw noodles from before into a dinner masterpiece. And if you time it just right, maybe the wine and the entree will meet in perfect, completed harmony!
The Cathedral Ridge Oregon Red 3 Pack has taken quite some time to go from the grape of Columbia Gorge to the bottle now waiting beside you. Why not give it that last hour to make sure you drink it the way it was intended? And hey, if it really stresses you out, we’ve linked some flash games on our Woot.com blog. You’ll see. That hour will fly by in no time at all!
2007 Cabernet Sauvignon:
- Polished tannins lead into a rich and lasting finish
- 25.4 Brix
- 20 Months French Oak
- Alcohol 14.2
- Mostly Bangsund Cabernet, but small splashes of Hillside Cab and about 8% Syrah
2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve:
- 100% Cabernet Sauvignon fruit
- Displays complexities of blackberry, olive, wood and tannin with a long and memorable finish
- 25 Brix
- 24 Months French Oak
- Alcohol 14.6
- All from Hillside Vineyard
2008 Pinot Noir:
- Cranberry and Pomegranate flavors unite in subtle tannins
- Hints of black olives and fresh fig
- 24 Brix
- 9 Months in French Oak
- Alcohol 13.8
- Almost all the grapes were from Bangsund Vineyard. A small splash was added from Dampier Vineyard
- Excellent food wine
Rules and restrictions:
- Wine sold by winery (or a retailer in your state where necessary)
- You must be 21 or older to order
- Whoever receives the package must be 21 or older
- If you're drunk when the package shows up, you will not be allowed to receive it
- Wine cannot be delivered to a P.O. Box
- We highly recommend you use a business address as your shipping address
Thanks to stick-in-the-mud buzzkilling state legislators, wine may only be delivered to the following states:
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- District Of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oregon
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
If your state's not on the list, you're out of luck... for now. Keep up with the ever-changing laws over at ShipCompliantBlog.com, and/or sound the alarms with your state assembly person through FreeTheGrapes.org. Meanwhile, all Federal, state and local laws are complied with in providing this wine.
