What Price Love?

We’ll get this to you by Valentine’s Day, but it’s up to you to remember when Valentine’s Day is. We can only do so much.

Hey, we’re glad we could help the last couple of Valentine’s Days. We hope those wines or chocolates or whatever it was you purchased from us helped you bring the evening to a rewarding end. It really is true what they say: Wine.Woot was made for lovers.

But you can’t just keep doing the same thing forever and expecting it to be just as exciting as the first time. That’s why relationships get stale. That’s when eyes start to wander. That’s how love dies. You don’t want to kill love, do you?

Of course you don’t. So this year, we’re helping you kick your Valentine’s Day up a notch, by kicking the price up a notch. After all, if it’s the thought that counts, the thought “I’ll spend any amount to make you happy” counts a lot more than “I’ll spend just enough to keep me from getting in trouble.”

The Corison Kronos 2004 Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon starts with 100% estate-grown grapes from the gravelly loam of Corison’s estate turf, the organically farmed Kronos Vineyard in Napa Valley. ‘04 was a very good year, it turns out, with pretty much perfect weather producing low yields of exceptionally concentrated fruit. Corison’s Old World artisan techniques were then brought to bear on those precious, precious grapes. The resulting Cab is resplendent with blackberry, raspberry, dried herb, rose petal, and violet aromas; a full, silky mouth; and precise balance between intense fruit and refined tannins. We suppose that’s why it’s received such rapturous reviews.

Is this Corison estate Cab the best wine we’ve ever featured? We don’t know from “best”. “Best”, what does “best” mean? You ask us, all of our wines are the “best”. But it’s certainly the most expensive, and one of the most acclaimed. And it’s certain to symbolize your deepening love for your significant other, as expressed by your willingness to spend more money on him or her.

Just a word of caution, though: if you don’t wind up buying this wine and decide to go with one of our previous cheaper-but-still-special-in-their-own-way offerings, it might be best if your special someone doesn’t see this page. It’ll only raise the question of why you love money more than you love him or her. After all we’ve done to make your Valentine’s Days a success, we’d hate to ruin this one.

2004 Corison Kronos Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon:

• Alcoholic: 13.8%
• 100% Estate
• 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
• 35+ Year old St George rootstock
• 100% French Oak, 50% new
• Approximately 400 cases produced
• Release Date: October 2008

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:

• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• District Of Columbia
• Florida
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Iowa
• Louisiana
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oregon
• South Carolina
• 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.