@atravis6 Each state has their own alcohol requirements (winery license) to import wine from another state sold directly to consumers (versus the ABC stores). Thus, each winery has to decide if they sell enough to justify the cost. Some states have cheap licenses, others are very expensive. Depends on how protectionist the state is with the winery lobby. It’s about jobs and states rights. Thank your Republican representatives that you voted for.
@Moose. In my experience, whenever people who don’t usually like a red wine like a wine, people who like red wines usually tend to not like those wines. That said, the other times it’s because it’s really good…hmm
@mikejoe It’s not that I don’t like red wine at all, I’m just fairly picky. I used to not like them at all but my wife is all about reds so I’ve been expanding my horizons.
@TheRidGE ButReallyACamelCapsModelNumber?
What about when the dot-matrix printer prints it as MEHZINMIX14 or is gets stripped of caps in the databases mehzinmix?
@Hojeij47 I have done this. Be prepared for major sticker shock when you package & ship (The ten buck chuck I shipped cost $27 to slow-boat three $9 bottles of wine)
Torn. The last time I bought wine from this crew (which was back at Woot) under a second label, it was pretty frickin’ awesome. So there’s some trust there. On the other hand, 6 bottles at $10 a pop for wine that’s a complete unknown…
@connorbush the one I got was a dessert wine from Glen Ellen (or somewhere thereabouts) I can’t remember what they called it but it was dia de los muertos themed, and while the initial bottle was decent, the bottle I opened after three or four years was phenomenal.
@novium The folks responsible for the wine at wine.woot back then are still at wine.woot. So you can’t assume that just because those wines were fine, these will be. On the other hand,
/giphy cavernous-domestic-thing
Okay… so here me out. How about you sell me the labels, and tell me what vineyard supplied the wine. I will then during my winter break drive the hour or two to the vineyard and buy a bottle. Slap a label on it and BAM!! Irk wine.
@YourLazyButt You don’t have to be 21 to buy it. You just have to have someone 21 or over sign for it. You can stick it in a closet until Februrary and drink it then.
@YourLazyButt Follow him home, find out where he lives. Order a wifi camera the next time meh offers one. Install said camera so you can see people coming to your door. Order numerous items to be delivered via UPS. Hide in the shadows outside UPS man’s home while watching your camera via app. When you see jerk UPS delivery man at your door, break into his home and retrieve wine. Hope UPS man hasn’t also ordered wifi camera from meh…
@username You can submit a “vacation hold” to FedEx. Works pretty well; up to 14 days I believe. You may need to sign up for an account though (I have an account so I am not sure if the option is there because of that). Signing up is free - you just need to confirm your address. Hope this helps!
@username 'cause I screwed up looking at the original offer and reading posts, and posted to the wrong thread.
Guess I should have come back and nuked it.
@therealjrn@username Like others, I do foolish things; won’t try to hid behind them.
I really need to go find one of those bottles to see how it is doing.
How did you get to ship to PA, and will you please teach woot this trick? Because seriously, my other shipping wine options are more expensive and I’m lazy.
@Jamileigh17@hems79 Many thanks to our illustrious Governor Wolf. Lots of changes to the liquor laws have come about. Wine being sold in grocery stores, beer distributors can sell six-packs, growlers and singles, and the aforementioned shipping of wine into PA!
@craigthom it’s rice wine, isn’t it? Yes, it has a higher abv content and is different stuff.
I peeked at the laws, and Louisiana does have some limitations. Retailer shipping is permitted, and winery direct shipping of up to 12 cases per year of wines that are not carried by a Louisiana distributor is also allowed. But if Irk says no, then no it is.
@djslack Laws are written without regard for reasonable definitions, so sake could certainly be called wine legally, and people often call it “rice wine”, but in the real world wines are fermented fruit. Fermented grain is generally called beer. So sake is a rice beer.
It’s not an arbitrary line between fruit and grain, either. Fruit is full of sugar that’s ready to ferment as soon as the yeast hits the juice. Grains, like rice and barley require human intervention to convert starches to sugars before fermentation can start. With normal beer this is done by sprouting the grains to release enzymes that will convert the starches. With sake a special mold is applied to the wet grains to do the conversion. In both cases yeast is then used to convert the sugar into alcohol (although the sake yeast strain is obviously able to survive in much more alcohol).
Whether the law recognizes the difference or has it’s own category is up to lawmakers. Alcohol laws are crazy and often make no sense.
Umm wonder if people working on getting a “six pack” really meant this…Also, meh states but If visibly intoxicated upon delivery, you will not be allowed to receive the wine-- wonder if the delivery driver would then keep it “wink wink” saying recipient was too intixicated ? Inquiring minds want to know…
@tinkertime I’m not a fan of dry wines either. I did not think this was too dry. I’m not a wine connoisseur, but if this is “on the dry side” then for me the flavor made it barely noticeable.
While I love that meh is selling alcohol, this seems kind of expensive. Is it really meh wine, or is it great? I don’t really drink wine though, so either way I hope you guys sell something else sometime soon. Or just cheaper wine.
Consumers in Ohio may receive up to 24 9-liter cases of wine per household per year, for personal consumption only, from wineries producing less than 250,000 gallons of wine annually. The wineries must obtain the appropriate permit in order to ship to Ohio.
@clarinetbob Is what it is. Bad call by the refs. It’s just football. BTW, in how many areas is that Ohio school rated as a whole or in individual departments, top 10?
@RedOak Again…seriously? My fuck was in jest…towards a state’s absurd wine import rules. Your fuck was towards a university and its football program…and as far as I know, the coaches, players, fans, etc. Then you went on to attack the academics of the institution itself…administrators, faculty, staff, students, etc. I just pointed out that you’re a bitter, angry, hateful little football fan who’s mad because they haven’t won a certain football game in nearly forever. AND then you had to throw more fuel on the fire by attacking the institution itself. Just like your whiny- (see what I did there) ass unprofessional, booger-eating football coach, suck it up buttercup and have a little class. You’re bitter and angry…and you’ve demonstrated that perfectly.
@clarinetbob never said fuck the university. Didn’t even bring up the university! You did! I was referring the the sad state of Ohio municipal budgets, needing speed trap ticket revenue.
I really could care less about football. That was the only game I watched. Sounds like you’re a sore winner.
Label says produced and bottled by Abbey D’Or Cellars, in San Miguel, but Cellar Tracker’s never heard of them. This is the very first item meh has offered that I had an interest in, but dammit, even at ten bucks a bottle, I still want some kind of evidence that it’s not paint thinner. I’ll probably ask around tomorrow, and then it’ll be sold out.
@Shrdlu From Explorer’s Guide to Big Sur, Monterey Bay, and Gold Coast Wine Country (2005): Abbey d’Or Cellars 805-467-3248 4620 Hog Canyon Rd., San Miguel 93451 Winemaker Joe Farley named his facility for his family’s ancestral village in Ireland. From estate grapes grown in this secluded canyon, he produces highly regarded cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay, chenin blanc, late-harvest zinfandel, and pinot noir vintages. Tours and tastings by appointment only.
@SIMBM I can’t find anything about “Abbey d’Or Cellars”, but at that address Google finds “Castoro Cellars”. They sell a $24 Zin blend called “Zinfusion” that apparently has 90 points from Wine Enthusiast. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is overstock from that wine or perhaps grapes that didn’t make the grade for that label.
@davem Bingo! Castoro Cellars has been a regular on wine.woot, especially making many of their woot cellars offerings. I bet this was a hibernating label name they brought out just for this.
If only we could get the labels and then put them on our own bottles.
On the bright side, this is saving us $60. Then again, not that Kosher wine is necessarily cheap. Then again, I guess it would depend on what kind one drinks.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@hollboll Is there any of those of us who only drink Kosher wine getting hooked up with these labels so that we don’t feel left out?
Someone tell the meh team that the website has been hacked…when I typed “meh.com”, it got redirected to “wine.woot.com”! It has to be a hack, because meh is the site with the cool stuff, and would never do something like this, would they?
I have to assume this is from the same peeps over on that other daily site that went to hell. Anyway, I’m in for a full case. Learned long ago that the stuff they have made is always a good deal, if not exceptional!!!
Since @Pavlov reminded us of the benefits of early morning drinking, I have been looking for my beloved grappa. I’d buy a 6-pack of that in a heartbeat.
Sixty bucks is pretty high considering nobody’s tried the stuff. Couldn’t possibly justify shielding that much on a wine I’ve never tasted and nobody’s ever reviewed.
I don’t like wine, but I love Irk. If I stop by next week after a Cattleack BBQ run will you sell me just one? If not, can at l at least get one of your empty bottles in my fuko?
I suggest saving your wine money and spending it on a high quality box of wine (Big House Red, Black Box Cabernet Sauvignon, Monthaven Merlot) from your local supermarket, drugstore, or big box retailer. Seriously. http://www.fearlesscritic.com/wine/
@davecort sure if you’re just trying to get drunk… and I’ll enjoy a bota box old vine zin happily. But those are exceptions and can never reach great heights - it’s often easy to tell the cheap from the real. And it’s even possible to guess the price points of ‘good’ $$$ wines within a few dollars.
What I want to see is the $$$ winters get the box treatment
@mikejoe I’ll take the hard, scientific data of a true blind tasting over subjective wine snobbery every time.
“Let me show you how this is done. First thing, hold the glass up and examine the wine against the light. You’re looking for color and clarity. Just, get a sense of it. OK? Uhh, thick? Thin? Watery? Syrupy? OK? Alright. Now, tip it. What you’re doing here is checking for color density as it thins out towards the rim. Uhh, that’s gonna tell you how old it is, among other things. It’s usually more important with reds. OK? Now, stick your nose in it. Don’t be shy, really get your nose in there. Mmm… a little citrus… maybe some strawberry… [smacks lips]… passion fruit… [puts hand up to ear]… and, oh, there’s just like the faintest soupçon of like asparagus and just a flutter of a, like a, nutty Edam cheese…” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375063/quotes#qt0310207
@davecort colletors might as well stick to box wine, since they’ll never drink it. But the best wines I’ve ever had in my life have all been 10+ years old. Many of them I did not particularly favor or find distinct when they were young wines. Don’t spend $50 on a bottle of wine to drink tomorrow, sure, but it’s well worth it for a wine to drink 20 years from now.
@novium I’m not sure if I should say “congratulations” or “I’m sorry” that you have such an expensive wine palette. I’m grateful that I find inexpensive wine enjoyable and often better than more expensive options.
@davecort My parents are in the wine industry. I grew up around it. They’ve ruined a number of people’s palettes by exposing them to really phenomenal wines over the years.
I just don’t drink that much wine, and I don’t think my brother does at all, so I feel like this would just take up space for years to come. I’d like to try it, but I don’t know who I’d split an order with.
@haskins187 if i remember correctly its has to do with specific wineries own permits with particular states that have restrictions, I bet not every single winery wine.woot ships to CT
@hems79@lowlypeon@Lighter Good to know! Only that was the only thing keeping me from dropping tons of cash on wine.woot. Not sure I’m up for 6 bottles of this, but will keep an eye out for future beverage deals. Thanks guys.
What the heck is CT’s problem!!! Prob won’t get some tax it always desperately needs that the casinos were promised to take care of years ago. Bummer, would have been a super gift for someone.
My alcoholic hand is shaking to buy but then I remember that I can just get wine at the store for this price. AND THEN I remember that this could come right to my front step and I don’t have to leave. I am torn
This isn’t a good choice for folks who don’t regularly drink red wine. Dry Zen is one of those reds that takes some practice. Of course, six bottles is a good start.
As for buying blind: it comes from an OK winery. The format for the offering is really familiar; “woot.” Since so many old woot folks are coming home to roost on meh I might guess who is handling this sale. But, right or wrong about that - the head meh guy has has shown decent wine judgment on his previous little web deal site.
Price? At a store ten bucks is at the top of the bumwine range and the bottom of the “yawn” wine range. BUT, if this is the same sort of deal as old woot vintages this is likely a better wine than most 10 buck chucks. The usual “fault” with woot labeled wines was that they were too young for drinking. A few years aging was helpful for many of them. This meh offer has some time on it already and is likely ready to drink right now.
Having typed all that out - I live in a no internet wine sale state.
OK, little twerpie, don’t let me down. If I don’t like this I’m gifting it… Your order number is: drifting-dry-song
coincidentally listening to heavy rotation on npr
@silverqueen Actually, caps are replacing corks on high-quality wines, these days, though most reds still use (synthetic) corks. That will not only make corkscrews obsolete, but also those wine shelves and coolers that store wine bottles on their side. Wine was stored sideways to keep the cork from drying out, which is not necessary with synthetic corks or screw tops.
Wonder why these particular states are out… I thought maybe KY because of bourbon, but TN has whiskey market, so that doesn’t make sense. You’ve got ultra-libs like DE, CT but also cons like AL, MS. No reason I can figure binds these together, but mine’s out, so I guess Meh today… sadly.
You lost me at “on the dry side with an oaky finish,” but I’ll definitely be in at some point if this continues to be a thing with different kinds of wine!
@carl669 It won’t be frozen. It has to under 20F for it to freeze and and it has to be that way for a WHILE. I live in VT, have been ordering wine online year round for a decade and haven’t ever had a shipment freeze yet. I would be concerned if you lived somewhere remote where it was going to be a high of 10F for days on end or if you knew it was going to sit in an unheated truck through a weekend.
@corrado by next week - MN is below 10degrees for a week and then not much more than 20 there after. If the wine came by next Monday and by air - I think it would be fine. I have received frozen wine many times in the mail over he years. The companies usually replace it. One didn’t.
No!!! MEH, This is how Woot went down the slippery slope. They had wine one day as a feature and the next thing you know Wine.woot… and everything else .woot and the rest is history. Don’t do it!!!
@f00l Largely permitting, I think. I don’t Peter ever distributed into the state; even though our licensing is relatively cheap, we’re a small, rural market. I believe the original iteration of Wine.Woot took a more liberal approach to interpreting wine shipping laws versus Amazon’s very conservative approach. All I know is that without anything changing at a State level, a LOT of states suddenly went dark on wine.woot (but stayed lit on every on internet wine-buying site).
@PlacidPenguin I ordered a case and will be glad to send you the labels from any bottles that I open.
Odds are decent that this is drinkable now, though it might be much better after a year or three or more. (Tonight I opened a 2009 Zin that was quite a bit better than when I first got it about four years ago.)
If I hadn’t already overspent for Christmas, I’d totally jump on these! Please bring them back in a couple of months when I can afford some decent wine.
/giphy Deliver To Pennsylvania
Wow. You ship to my state! Almost no one else does!!! I’m in for a box. These will make great Christmas gifts to adults who enjoy wine.
Being a wine.wooter since Day 1 of launch (mmmm… Critters) and a ‘blind purchaser’ of every woot-badged wine until Amazon ruined that party coupled with meh’s track record of standing by what they sell, I would (and have) bet that this is a solid Zin. Wanted to go in for a case, but Christmas budgeting unfortunately limited to a single order.
@KNmeh7 well, before I commit to using someone else’s address I would like to check to see if it’s OK with them, and it seems silly to go to that trouble if it isn’t easy to accomplish… (which it evidently is) Thanks for the info. I will keep it in mind the next go around!
@SIMBM That would appear to be the case. Abbey d’or Cellars appears to have gone belly-up over 20 years ago. If it is Castoro, I’m super-pumped. They truly do make Dam Fine Wine.
@Dengue If history is any judge, this is a stupid good deal and you’re probably paying about half of what the stuff would cost at the winery. If you like Zin, I’d wager this one’s well worth $10/bottle.
@corrado I didn’t look into the deal very closely. It just sounded like it was some home brew and I don’t see how that would go up in value. I normally pay 10-15 a bottle for wine.
Just putting it out there — aside from being December-broke, I would have been far more likely to bite on this one if it had been three bottles each of two varietals or two bottles each of three varietals or even a vertical. Six of the same unknown is just a big ol’ risk.
I don’t drink much wine at all and haven’t really enjoyed the red wines I’ve tried, but if meh can figure out how to efficiently sell smaller quantities (three bottles?) and maybe sell some white wines, I’ll likely bite. I hope this sale is successful so we get more in the future.
@f00l Hard to say with the “Mystery” nature of the woot wine. In general, Peter’s wine will hold up for years. The I opened in '02 Syrah this past summer and it was still okay, but on the cusp of going off. The '06 Syrahs were still dynamite. Merlots & Cabs hold up pretty well, too, so I think you’ll do fine. Store them cool (in a cellar, if you’ve got one) and you’ll be fine.
No one makes wine the way some vineyards used to in France pre-1900, anymore do they? Where the bottle needed to lay for a century to be at prime, so the aristocrats used to stock their cellars for the great-grandchildren?
I can’t think of any wine (other than sparkling wines/Champagne) that really needed more than 10-20 years to age. After that, you have very expensive vinegar. For wine that stores longer, you make brandy. The high alcohol content makes it keep longer.
@rockblossom
I have read that the way prime vintages were produced in the old days, the Lords and Ladies used to routinely purchase some bottles that would not be ready to drink during their own lifetimes. They also purchase “quick bottles” for normal use.
WWI blew apart much of continental royalty’s and aristocracy’s stability. During the 1900’s the great traditional family fortunes declined and there was essentially a much smaller market for those “age-forever” wines (the market had been tiny in the first place), so vineyards like the various Rothschilds adjusted their techniques to produce wines that were ready a few decades sooner.
Or so I’ve read. Which means I’m possibly full of shit.
@rockblossom Bordeaux is an obvious example of a region that still produces wine ‘for the future’ instead of the now. I bought some '05 Bordeaux for well under $100/bottle that wasn’t supposed to start being good until 2018.
Petite Sirah tends to be fickle, requiring several years to mellow, but shutting down for a decade or more in a ‘dumb’ period before emerging afterward as a magical wine. I have several bottles ('01, '02, and '03 vintages) that are lying in wait until about 2025 to see if that is, indeed, the case.
100 year wines though? Those sorts of things aren’t in my budget. Which is why I’m shopping on meh.
@f00l I’ll try to remember to snap & upload tonight. It’s less “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous” and way more “Silence of the Lambs.” Did I mention I’m a meh shopper? And a Vermonter?
Showed up today. After I bought it I was getting nervous from the number of meh staffers saying “I don’t usually like red wine but I liked this”. I was afraid it was going to be sweet. (The first wine I liked was Sutter Home White Zinfandel. But it was 1982 and I was 19.)
My wife got a big kick out of the front label and read the entire back label out loud to me.
Cracked open the first bottle and poured some through an aerator. We both like it. After a few sips my wife said “I really like this.” So $10/bottle well-spent!
As I said earlier in the thread, I’m lucky in that I can tell decent wine from crap but not good wine from great wine. I never try to buy wine that has to lay down for years before drinking. So this is perfectly meh for me. Until I get sugar water or vinegar, it looks like meh wine is an automatic buy.
@SSteve I did, and it’s solid. For $10, I’d say this is a pretty good (blended) wine. It’s not overly sweet, and it’s really fairly dry. Personally, it gets almost everything that I wanted out of it.
@PlacidPenguin Keeping with the bizarro theme, wouldn’t be more of a “Meh it on” sale? They’ve got all that wine that’s just eating up climate-controlled storage space. I’ll be disappointed if it doesn’t pass this way again.
I didn’t purchase this because Wine.Woot did Wellington in the same day.
But I seem to be handing out bottles as holiday gifts. So if you have an extra case around, becaise you couldn’t ship somewhere or other, I’ll take it. Charge me and ship.
So, I opened a bottle after it sat around for a week post transport and have to say it was on the “fruit forward” aka less dry side. Tasting blind I would have guessed it as Apothic. So, if wines in that style are your jam, then you’ll love this. Gift material around my house, though, which works out just fine. Hoping some of the old wine woot players make an appearance, since meh is happy to ship to GA.
I ordered this 6-pack on December 4th, wondering how Meh was planning to get it to me in Arkansas. Even though my state was not listed as one they could not ship to, I knew from past experience with Woot wine that it was unlikely. So I ponied up $60, more interested in the logistics than the product itself. Sure enough, ten days later, on December 14th, my order was canceled, and my money refunded. I had purchased a month of VMP with my order, so I was actually coming out ahead since I got to keep it. I’ve used the free shipping on two orders since in fact. So in my mind, I was already made whole by Meh.
Then today I heard my doorbell ring, and saw the FedEx guy hustling away as I opened the door. I wasn’t expecting a package, so I looked at the label and saw the WCC return address. Picking up the box confirmed it was too light to contain wine. I brought it inside and opened it to find a bunch of “mediocre wine accessories”, along with a nice apology from the Meh wine warehouse. I’d rather have the wine of course, but I will never need to buy another corkscrew, stopper, or pourer again for as long as I live. Thanks Meh.
@gruisinger Same here. Totally unexpected package on my porch. Before I panicked and called the bomb squad, I looked at the label. Meh Wine Warehouse. (Warehouse? You have a whole wa… ?) Sorry, getting off track there.
So, that’s a 6 wine glass holder in the back, tipped on its side. A nice wine bottle bag with 5 bottle openers, a foil cutter, and 8 wine bottle stoppers (2 of them purple!) Whew! I think I can set up a snazzy wine bar with this.
Thank You, Meh! That’s what I call a classy apology!
let me preface this by saying, i know nothing about wine.
i cracked a bottle of this on xmas night. the wine definitely seems fruit forward. it’s still good, but it’s sweeter than i typically like. so the question to all you som-meh-liers is, will this wine become drier as time passes? how much time?
@carl669 Paso wines are going to be fruit-forward which will give an illusion of sweetness. I was expecting a higher alcohol from a Zin; sometimes the increased alcohol will lead to perceived sweetness, too.
That said, even with the lower alcohol, I didn’t get the sense that this was under-attenuated (e.g. the yeast didn’t finish turning sugars into alcohol). I’ve had Castoro’s Zin before and really liked it (and it was $20+/bottle) and this fell a little more empty to me, but still a really good wine for $10.
There was a little edge to it that I expect will go away by next fall, but I wouldn’t necessarily expect the overall flavor profile to change significantly in the next 3 years. After that it will likely start getting “old” and the fruitiness will start to dissipate.
@corrado thanks! i didn’t consider that the “sweetness” might just be an illusion as you state. something i’ll need to take into account next time i open a bottle.
Please do a 3 pack ideally dry not oaky white such that shipping arrives by end of February. I have need of a 10 dollar awesome bottle of wine in order to win.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
6x Bottles of Wine
Pictures
Wine bottles
Pour it up
Top view
Back label
Wineception
Warranty
None
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Wednesday, July 15th
Stop whining!
Really cool idea. But I’m on a strict Costco-Trader Joe’s booze budget.
@yakkoTDI Welcome to wine.meh
Meh. Can’t drink. Better luck next time.
@mdszy you could try
@mdszy I’m not going to make an enema joke.
Yay! Alcohol!
Please let pot be next, please let pot be next, please let pot be next.
@Pavlov ninja-editor says
oh yea baby
/youtube barry white
@Pavlov Just get one from Home Depot or something.
@Pavlov It can happen
For whiners tonight --"wine"don’t you buy some?
@AttyVette
Grape idea!
@AttyVette I’ll cut some cheese with that.
@mike808 ewe
@AttyVette Because I live in one of the 16 states they don’t deliver to.
Lol what?
I live in a non-shippable state you bastards!
@Wimateeka Take to the streets!
@Wimateeka Write your governor or move to a better state!
@Wimateeka do you have a friend or family member in a shippable state? Maybe they can receive it and you can pick it up from them?
@Wimateeka So do I and yet I can get wine shipped to me from other vendors, such as Bright Cellars. Huh. Does anyone know why?
@atravis6 Each state has their own alcohol requirements (winery license) to import wine from another state sold directly to consumers (versus the ABC stores). Thus, each winery has to decide if they sell enough to justify the cost. Some states have cheap licenses, others are very expensive. Depends on how protectionist the state is with the winery lobby. It’s about jobs and states rights. Thank your Republican representatives that you voted for.
@mike808 I have never voted for a Republican in my entire life, so I don’t believe I will thank them.
@atravis6 Well enough of your fellow citizens did. Sucks to be in the majority, eh? PT Barnum was right.
I’m not going to whine about you not shipping to my state.
There has been nothing on this site that I have wanted this bad!!! It really sucks being poor right now.
/giphy why??
@conandlibrarian Just sell something less important. Like your couch or soul. yeah know stuff you don’t really need.
@YourLazyButt any bidders on my soul??
@conandlibrarian I can do about…tree fiddy
@canneddirt
/giphy tempting
@conandlibrarian Irk wine!
I can’t spend any money until I close on my house
I didn’t even try for a fuko.
@looseneck Your priorities are really screwed up.
I like how someone 21 just has to sign with it. You can buy it without being 21 lol
@YourLazyButt
Usually confirmed on delivery in my state
Anyone at the meh office tried it?
@DaveInSoCal yes. It was good!
@ChadP
So you have time to drink, but no time to produce a half decent Fuko day video?
@PlacidPenguin Fuku video will happen. Don’t worry.
@DaveInSoCal Tasty after it tangos with some Texas air
@DaveInSoCal I liked it, and I tend to not like red wines.
/giphy dysfunctional-brunette-curve
@ChadP
It better. I’m done targeting @shawn (for now) and have found a new target.
@Moose I don’t know if that’s an endorsement or not. The zinfandels I’ve had are big and full, but they are still dry red wines.
@Moose. In my experience, whenever people who don’t usually like a red wine like a wine, people who like red wines usually tend to not like those wines. That said, the other times it’s because it’s really good…hmm
@mikejoe It’s not that I don’t like red wine at all, I’m just fairly picky. I used to not like them at all but my wife is all about reds so I’ve been expanding my horizons.
Missed opportunity in Model Number: Since wine is usually tracked by vintage, you should have had the vintage year in the Model Number: MehZinMix14
@TheRidGE ButReallyACamelCapsModelNumber?
What about when the dot-matrix printer prints it as MEHZINMIX14 or is gets stripped of caps in the databases mehzinmix?
@caffeineguy If someone misread that as AMAZING, we might have a false advertising lawsuit on our hands.
@andrewpatrick
Can confirm, read as AMAZING, while drunk off my neighbor’s bathtubgin (ew).
I’m not 21 years or older so meh
Figures, meh is selling a model from 2 years ago.
I do not drink… wine.
@Pony, neither do I. I bought it for gifts. (My kid’s teachers ALWAYS love getting alcohol.)
/giphy love getting alcohol
Dammit Utah, quit being so Mormon!
6 bottles of wine from where I live - hmmmm
Where’s the specs for us wine.wooters? Who made this swill?
Tasting Notes?
Chat with wine maker?
Drinking window?
@bluebeatpete label says Abbey d’or Cellars, San Miguel, CA
/giphy yasss
@connorbush Wow. It took me an obscene amount of time watching that to figure out what the hell is wrapped in that towel.
@SpenceMan01 Sleepy green parrot??
@Pamtha sounds like an order number
/giphy sleepy green parrot
One bottle for $10? I’d be in. Maybe even 2 for $20. But what on earth am I supposed to do with 6 bottles of this stuff?
@funkboy3 Obviously, it is time to unleash your inner alcoholic and drink it all in one go.
@funkboy3 Pray that it’s not plonk.
Or, just commit to drinking it, whether it is or not.
@funkboy3 You don’t have to drink it all the day you get it.
@heartbleed @funkboy3 that’s only 6 glasses of wine if you use those ones they sold a while back that hold a whole bottle.
@funkboy3 my feelings too. Hell 3 for $30 and I’d be down.
I don’t drink wine often so 6 bottles would last me years.
@funkboy3 gifts.
@funkboy3 @meh, can people work out a deal with you to split the shipment in half?
@YourLazyButt no
@Nexar @meh I called a co-worker that raves about Woot wine, and split the case with him… Win-Win.
Meh cant ship to you if someone wants one ill gladly buy it for you and ship it to you
@Hojeij47 can you provide your address and ssn here please
@Hojeij47 I’ll do it for half the cost of hojeij47! (Not really, I just wanted to be that guy)
@Yoda_Daenerys Would’ve thought this would be ATF territory
@Hojeij47 I have done this. Be prepared for major sticker shock when you package & ship (The ten buck chuck I shipped cost $27 to slow-boat three $9 bottles of wine)
I feel like the “Who’s buying this crap?” section could use a little more detail this time around. I have questions.
Me: huh…
Wife: what?
Me: meh has their own wine. I’m tempted to buy it.
Wife: no
I guess that’s that.
@medz I had the conversation in my head, since I already knew it would end as yours did. I saved about 15 seconds.
@lichme but missed out on all the entertainment and future pain that conversation would bring.
sell me the labels for a nickel each, and we’ve got a deal
/youtube nickleback
Well, this takes care of 5 holiday gifts. And one for me.
Where are the Amazon reviews?
Screw this. Once more, you can’t make margaritas with this drain plonk.
P.S. Woot called and wants their Triacipidis back.
@mike808 For those that wonder, and try to google, use ‘triacipedis’.
Such as:
http://wine.woot.com/offers/triacipedis-the-white-iii-5-8
@bdb My bad. And they are delicious, btw. Better than the F-bomb, IMHO.
Come up with a bourbon-barrel-aged imperial stout, maybe then I’ll give you $60.
Torn. The last time I bought wine from this crew (which was back at Woot) under a second label, it was pretty frickin’ awesome. So there’s some trust there. On the other hand, 6 bottles at $10 a pop for wine that’s a complete unknown…
@novium Same problem here. I don’t mind losing $10 on a couple of unknowns…but six of the same thing?
@everdown Drink it all in one night and then it’s only one unknown
@Moose @everdown
Not exactly sure it works that way.
@novium phat goose or. Phat duck or whatever it was… THAT was delicious
@novium "Fuck off! I’m stuffed!
@connorbush the one I got was a dessert wine from Glen Ellen (or somewhere thereabouts) I can’t remember what they called it but it was dia de los muertos themed, and while the initial bottle was decent, the bottle I opened after three or four years was phenomenal.
@novium peter wellington, vinito del finito. 2010 late harvest zin. amazing wine.
@jalopatin we still have a bottle of that in our cellar. Wine Woot introduced me to so many awesome vintners. Wonder who the maker is on this one.
@novium The folks responsible for the wine at wine.woot back then are still at wine.woot. So you can’t assume that just because those wines were fine, these will be. On the other hand,
/giphy cavernous-domestic-thing
@InFrom Third time’s the charm – much better than pics of kids with bruises.
Yay! It sounds grape!
Surprised its not Meh wine in a Bluetooth speaker bottle…
What a strange crap we have today. I don’t even like wine.
Gives me a killer hangover.
Oh well.
/buy
@heartbleed It worked! Your order number is: inquisitive-beige-volleyball
/image inquisitive beige volleyball
@heartbleed
You must have a house full of Meh shit.
@RedOak You have no idea.
Okay… so here me out. How about you sell me the labels, and tell me what vineyard supplied the wine. I will then during my winter break drive the hour or two to the vineyard and buy a bottle. Slap a label on it and BAM!! Irk wine.
/giphy good idea
@conandlibrarian the vineyard is listed on the back label.
Hey nice job meh.
Shoulda called it Irkfandel
@armchair Or they could have used the Sea Monster and called it a Glennfandel.
ROT GUT?
Oh and BATH!
Is that still a thing?
feisty-blurry-illusionist, appropriate? meh.
Alright who’s got the cheese…?
Dear Meh,
I would love to buy your mediocre wine, but I don’t turn 21 until February, please sell more alcohol so I can buy it then. Thank you
@YourLazyButt sooo lazy, turn 21 sooner.
@YourLazyButt You don’t have to be 21 to buy it. You just have to have someone 21 or over sign for it. You can stick it in a closet until Februrary and drink it then.
@SSteve The struggles of living by yourself. Lol and yea… I would totally wait until then…
@YourLazyButt Just order it and have the UPS guy bring it back for 2 months until you can sign for it.
@caffeineguy @YourLazyButt Or have the UPS guy sign for it and give him a bottle for his troubles!
@Ignorant I’ll try my best to turn 21 in the next 10 hours and 30 mins. Wish me luck
@cinoclav @caffeineguy What happens if the UPS driver says no and keeps all 6 for himself… then what?
@YourLazyButt Follow him home, find out where he lives. Order a wifi camera the next time meh offers one. Install said camera so you can see people coming to your door. Order numerous items to be delivered via UPS. Hide in the shadows outside UPS man’s home while watching your camera via app. When you see jerk UPS delivery man at your door, break into his home and retrieve wine. Hope UPS man hasn’t also ordered wifi camera from meh…
@Ignorant damn Millennials. back in my day, we aged a year in six months!
Well, don’t like wine much, and can’t get it shipped here in IN, so, meh.
@Charcoalwolfman ship it to your buddies across the border in Michigan. I hear the transaction fee is only 1 bottle per 6.
What happens if you’re not home to sign for it? Might be on vacation
How long does FedEx hold on to it?
@username until they drink it all.
@username You can submit a “vacation hold” to FedEx. Works pretty well; up to 14 days I believe. You may need to sign up for an account though (I have an account so I am not sure if the option is there because of that). Signing up is free - you just need to confirm your address. Hope this helps!
@username Meh still shipping FedEx?
CM went to UPS and it blows.
@rjquillin it’s been some months but i think it was still Fedex
why this thread bump?
@username 'cause I screwed up looking at the original offer and reading posts, and posted to the wrong thread.
Guess I should have come back and nuked it.
@rjquillin @username It’s not too late. You have a bag of tricks there I see.
@therealjrn @username Like others, I do foolish things; won’t try to hid behind them.
I really need to go find one of those bottles to see how it is doing.
@rjquillin @username You should put TrackR pixels on them!
@therealjrn @username
Lord knows I have enough of them.
Just need to get some batteries!
How did you get to ship to PA, and will you please teach woot this trick? Because seriously, my other shipping wine options are more expensive and I’m lazy.
@Jamileigh17 It’s been legal to ship to PA for a few months now.
@Jamileigh17 @hems79 Many thanks to our illustrious Governor Wolf. Lots of changes to the liquor laws have come about. Wine being sold in grocery stores, beer distributors can sell six-packs, growlers and singles, and the aforementioned shipping of wine into PA!
@cinoclav Oh I know that. But every time i check wine woot, it’s still a no go
@Jamileigh17 Same question here in OK. I guess wine.woot must be slower at updating who they’ll ship to.
I’d be in for this but no shipping to LA… And I would swear I bought some fine sake from wine.woot back in the day. Oh well, my state sucks.
@djslack Sake isn’t wine. The laws may be different.
@craigthom it’s rice wine, isn’t it? Yes, it has a higher abv content and is different stuff.
I peeked at the laws, and Louisiana does have some limitations. Retailer shipping is permitted, and winery direct shipping of up to 12 cases per year of wines that are not carried by a Louisiana distributor is also allowed. But if Irk says no, then no it is.
@djslack Laws are written without regard for reasonable definitions, so sake could certainly be called wine legally, and people often call it “rice wine”, but in the real world wines are fermented fruit. Fermented grain is generally called beer. So sake is a rice beer.
It’s not an arbitrary line between fruit and grain, either. Fruit is full of sugar that’s ready to ferment as soon as the yeast hits the juice. Grains, like rice and barley require human intervention to convert starches to sugars before fermentation can start. With normal beer this is done by sprouting the grains to release enzymes that will convert the starches. With sake a special mold is applied to the wet grains to do the conversion. In both cases yeast is then used to convert the sugar into alcohol (although the sake yeast strain is obviously able to survive in much more alcohol).
Whether the law recognizes the difference or has it’s own category is up to lawmakers. Alcohol laws are crazy and often make no sense.
Wine.meh.com
@narfcake I actually clicked this “link”. You got me…!
The wootification has begun!!’
@mehdaf Begun? They had a shirt on day zero!
Granted, it’s not officially shirt.meh.com until there are catshirts …
@mehdaf
Naw …
@narfcake
But then we’d need the /@narfcake code implemented.
Knives and alcohol… you guys know how to throw a party!
@awk You win the entire thread.
Yes
/8ball Does @awk coin a mean phrase?
Too much for an unknown
Umm wonder if people working on getting a “six pack” really meant this…Also, meh states but If visibly intoxicated upon delivery, you will not be allowed to receive the wine-- wonder if the delivery driver would then keep it “wink wink” saying recipient was too intixicated ? Inquiring minds want to know…
I like wine a lot, especially red, but I don’t like dry wine
@tinkertime just add some water then!
@tinkertime I’m not a fan of dry wines either. I did not think this was too dry. I’m not a wine connoisseur, but if this is “on the dry side” then for me the flavor made it barely noticeable.
@tinkertime In my experience “on the dry side” means not syrupy but still pretty sweet.
@katylava @craigthom Thanks for the info!
@mjg
Oh god, I have never wanted to buy something so bad. I think I will sleep on this and take a look tomorrow. Hey, at least this wasn’t a speaker dock!
While I love that meh is selling alcohol, this seems kind of expensive. Is it really meh wine, or is it great? I don’t really drink wine though, so either way I hope you guys sell something else sometime soon. Or just cheaper wine.
I ordered a couple to add to the Christmas gifts for my office staff. My order number makes me wonder if I should see a GI doc…
reliable-rosy-barium
Fuck you, Ohio! Makes NO sense.
Consumers in Ohio may receive up to 24 9-liter cases of wine per household per year, for personal consumption only, from wineries producing less than 250,000 gallons of wine annually. The wineries must obtain the appropriate permit in order to ship to Ohio.
@clarinetbob This will make you feel better: http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=17862081
@clarinetbob lol that’s so arbitrary
@clarinetbob
Funny, that’s what us folks north of Ohio say when we have to drive thru Ohio on the way to anything south.
But thank you kindly for finally abandoning Jimmy’s 55 MPH speed limit on the Interstates!
@RedOak Not still sore from the loss, are ya?
@clarinetbob Is what it is. Bad call by the refs. It’s just football. BTW, in how many areas is that Ohio school rated as a whole or in individual departments, top 10?
@RedOak Seriously? You started it. Butt-hurt fan…again.
@clarinetbob No need to get personal. I wasn’t the one who first said “Fuck Ohio”.
@RedOak Again…seriously? My fuck was in jest…towards a state’s absurd wine import rules. Your fuck was towards a university and its football program…and as far as I know, the coaches, players, fans, etc. Then you went on to attack the academics of the institution itself…administrators, faculty, staff, students, etc. I just pointed out that you’re a bitter, angry, hateful little football fan who’s mad because they haven’t won a certain football game in nearly forever. AND then you had to throw more fuel on the fire by attacking the institution itself. Just like your whiny- (see what I did there) ass unprofessional, booger-eating football coach, suck it up buttercup and have a little class. You’re bitter and angry…and you’ve demonstrated that perfectly.
@shahnm Yep. Thanks. Hope they enjoy the Big Ten title and the Rose Bowl. Great season, though.
@clarinetbob never said fuck the university. Didn’t even bring up the university! You did! I was referring the the sad state of Ohio municipal budgets, needing speed trap ticket revenue.
I really could care less about football. That was the only game I watched. Sounds like you’re a sore winner.
@RedOak Hahahaha. Hope you keep getting tickets! Just drive around!
@clarinetbob You all still in high school? Grow up and be NICE
Label says produced and bottled by Abbey D’Or Cellars, in San Miguel, but Cellar Tracker’s never heard of them. This is the very first item meh has offered that I had an interest in, but dammit, even at ten bucks a bottle, I still want some kind of evidence that it’s not paint thinner. I’ll probably ask around tomorrow, and then it’ll be sold out.
@Shrdlu From Explorer’s Guide to Big Sur, Monterey Bay, and Gold Coast Wine Country (2005): Abbey d’Or Cellars 805-467-3248 4620 Hog Canyon Rd., San Miguel 93451 Winemaker Joe Farley named his facility for his family’s ancestral village in Ireland. From estate grapes grown in this secluded canyon, he produces highly regarded cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay, chenin blanc, late-harvest zinfandel, and pinot noir vintages. Tours and tastings by appointment only.
@SIMBM
Much thx.
@SIMBM Page 249, right?
@SIMBM I hope it’s not telling that they don’t mention his zin is “highly regarded”.
@SSteve His late harvest Zin is highly regarded. This offering is not late harvest. I wonder what happened…
@SIMBM I can’t find anything about “Abbey d’Or Cellars”, but at that address Google finds “Castoro Cellars”. They sell a $24 Zin blend called “Zinfusion” that apparently has 90 points from Wine Enthusiast. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is overstock from that wine or perhaps grapes that didn’t make the grade for that label.
@davem Bingo! Castoro Cellars has been a regular on wine.woot, especially making many of their woot cellars offerings. I bet this was a hibernating label name they brought out just for this.
Flattering-Dangling-Hammer
That’s inapropro… But I like it.
Pumped to try this wine though.
Sorry, not kosher, so meh.
@elipongo
If only we could get the labels and then put them on our own bottles.
On the bright side, this is saving us $60. Then again, not that Kosher wine is necessarily cheap. Then again, I guess it would depend on what kind one drinks.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@hollboll Is there any of those of us who only drink Kosher wine getting hooked up with these labels so that we don’t feel left out?
Someone tell the meh team that the website has been hacked…when I typed “meh.com”, it got redirected to “wine.woot.com”! It has to be a hack, because meh is the site with the cool stuff, and would never do something like this, would they?
I’d take the risk for 3 bottles, but 6 is too much.
On a side note: I’d be VERY interested in a bottle of Mediocre whiskey!
/giphy terrific-flitting-giant
I have to assume this is from the same peeps over on that other daily site that went to hell. Anyway, I’m in for a full case. Learned long ago that the stuff they have made is always a good deal, if not exceptional!!!
Please don’t suck! I’m trusting y…oh God what have I done!!!
We recommend shipping the wine to your business address
Yea how bout I don’t ship this to a K-12 school… that spells fired all over it.
The most unexpected Meh that ever did Meh.
Don’t drink, but should make for some decent gifts around the office.
/giphy frozen-meaty-structure
Since @Pavlov reminded us of the benefits of early morning drinking, I have been looking for my beloved grappa. I’d buy a 6-pack of that in a heartbeat.
/buy
@AccusingEwe It worked! Your order number is: plaid-flippant-gull
/image plaid flippant gull
Sixty bucks is pretty high considering nobody’s tried the stuff. Couldn’t possibly justify shielding that much on a wine I’ve never tasted and nobody’s ever reviewed.
@denton shielding??
@chienfou Meant to be “spending.” Typed using the Swype keyboard on my phone and I didn’t pay much attention before hitting ‘send’.
Meh, why not? I need something to get me through this fuko-missing funk.
/giphy decorative-yellow-rye
I don’t like wine, but I love Irk. If I stop by next week after a Cattleack BBQ run will you sell me just one? If not, can at l at least get one of your empty bottles in my fuko?
How does it pair with
/image hungry-crumby-coleslaw
I’m torn. Ten bucks a bottle is cheap for good wine. But I guess if it’s bad I can use it when I make Pot Roast For People Who Want To Live, Dammit.
/buy
@SSteve It worked! Your order number is: beastly-magnetic-armadillo
/image beastly magnetic armadillo
I wish I could link to the wine tasting scene from Absolutely Fabulous but it looks like the BBC has blocked it.
@SSteve http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/63660/
@Pufferfishy Thanks. I love that episode.
If the wine arrives the same day as your Fuko, you can open the former to assuage the grief and sorrow resulting from opening the latter.
In for a case (presuming that meh wine comes in 12 bottle cases).
/image comical-macho-strawberry
/giphy comical-macho-strawberry
FYI there’s no correlation between wine price and quality.
http://freakonomics.com/2008/07/24/keep-the-cheap-wine-flowing/
I suggest saving your wine money and spending it on a high quality box of wine (Big House Red, Black Box Cabernet Sauvignon, Monthaven Merlot) from your local supermarket, drugstore, or big box retailer. Seriously.
http://www.fearlesscritic.com/wine/
@davecort inexpensive wines are rarely made to age, so there’s that difference
@davecort sure if you’re just trying to get drunk… and I’ll enjoy a bota box old vine zin happily. But those are exceptions and can never reach great heights - it’s often easy to tell the cheap from the real. And it’s even possible to guess the price points of ‘good’ $$$ wines within a few dollars.
What I want to see is the $$$ winters get the box treatment
@novium personally I buy my wine to drink, not collect.
@mikejoe I’ll take the hard, scientific data of a true blind tasting over subjective wine snobbery every time.
“Let me show you how this is done. First thing, hold the glass up and examine the wine against the light. You’re looking for color and clarity. Just, get a sense of it. OK? Uhh, thick? Thin? Watery? Syrupy? OK? Alright. Now, tip it. What you’re doing here is checking for color density as it thins out towards the rim. Uhh, that’s gonna tell you how old it is, among other things. It’s usually more important with reds. OK? Now, stick your nose in it. Don’t be shy, really get your nose in there. Mmm… a little citrus… maybe some strawberry… [smacks lips]… passion fruit… [puts hand up to ear]… and, oh, there’s just like the faintest soupçon of like asparagus and just a flutter of a, like a, nutty Edam cheese…”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375063/quotes#qt0310207
@davecort colletors might as well stick to box wine, since they’ll never drink it. But the best wines I’ve ever had in my life have all been 10+ years old. Many of them I did not particularly favor or find distinct when they were young wines. Don’t spend $50 on a bottle of wine to drink tomorrow, sure, but it’s well worth it for a wine to drink 20 years from now.
@novium I’m not sure if I should say “congratulations” or “I’m sorry” that you have such an expensive wine palette. I’m grateful that I find inexpensive wine enjoyable and often better than more expensive options.
@davecort My parents are in the wine industry. I grew up around it. They’ve ruined a number of people’s palettes by exposing them to really phenomenal wines over the years.
Cannot ship it to my state. Damn! I was going to take it to my AA party too.
I predict Mediocre Merlot for the next offering.
Then Bathtub Gin from Tiny Tub Mummy?
Hoping that this won’t show up on the final day of shipping window…
/Buy
@Pamtha It worked! Your order number is: painted-unbalanced-dancer
/image painted unbalanced dancer
@mediocrebot Somebody really loves Degas…
I just don’t drink that much wine, and I don’t think my brother does at all, so I feel like this would just take up space for years to come. I’d like to try it, but I don’t know who I’d split an order with.
10 dollars a bottle is already a normal price for wine. Why do we have to buy 6?
@diemeatbag Maybe this is 20-dollar-a-bottle wine.
There’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to ship to CT. Even wine.you-know-who.com does!
@haskins187 if i remember correctly its has to do with specific wineries own permits with particular states that have restrictions, I bet not every single winery wine.woot ships to CT
Pro-tip: If a red wine is too dry for your taste, just add Triple Sec.
@jdnew18 I never heard of dry wine before… It might go better with my couch
How come you can ship to PA and no one else (including Woot) can?
@ACraigL Seems that they can also get past the Virginia legislature’s ideas about what is best for campaign donors.
@ACraigL Everyone has been able to since August. Some are just slower at catching up than others.
@ACraigL It’s been legal to ship to PA for a few months now.
@hems79 @lowlypeon @Lighter Good to know! Only that was the only thing keeping me from dropping tons of cash on wine.woot. Not sure I’m up for 6 bottles of this, but will keep an eye out for future beverage deals. Thanks guys.
What the heck is CT’s problem!!! Prob won’t get some tax it always desperately needs that the casinos were promised to take care of years ago. Bummer, would have been a super gift for someone.
I ordered this, but I’d really prefer a Syrah/Shiraz next time.
My alcoholic hand is shaking to buy but then I remember that I can just get wine at the store for this price. AND THEN I remember that this could come right to my front step and I don’t have to leave. I am torn
@snorlaxthelorax if you were planning to drive to the store then this is definitely a good thing.
This isn’t a good choice for folks who don’t regularly drink red wine. Dry Zen is one of those reds that takes some practice. Of course, six bottles is a good start.
As for buying blind: it comes from an OK winery. The format for the offering is really familiar; “woot.” Since so many old woot folks are coming home to roost on meh I might guess who is handling this sale. But, right or wrong about that - the head meh guy has has shown decent wine judgment on his previous little web deal site.
Price? At a store ten bucks is at the top of the bumwine range and the bottom of the “yawn” wine range. BUT, if this is the same sort of deal as old woot vintages this is likely a better wine than most 10 buck chucks. The usual “fault” with woot labeled wines was that they were too young for drinking. A few years aging was helpful for many of them. This meh offer has some time on it already and is likely ready to drink right now.
Having typed all that out - I live in a no internet wine sale state.
OK, little twerpie, don’t let me down. If I don’t like this I’m gifting it… Your order number is: drifting-dry-song
coincidentally listening to heavy rotation on npr
http://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2016/12/04/504124413/heavy-rotation-10-songs-public-radio-cant-stop-playing
This is GREAT!!! I love it!! Now, do I need a wine opener or is it a screw top? Hahaha
@silverqueen Actually, caps are replacing corks on high-quality wines, these days, though most reds still use (synthetic) corks. That will not only make corkscrews obsolete, but also those wine shelves and coolers that store wine bottles on their side. Wine was stored sideways to keep the cork from drying out, which is not necessary with synthetic corks or screw tops.
So, to make up for it, the next Fukoboro is only for those of us in states that can’t get shipped wine, correct?
I wish I could get just 2 or 3 bottles. I don’t have the money to spring for 6.
Wonder why these particular states are out… I thought maybe KY because of bourbon, but TN has whiskey market, so that doesn’t make sense. You’ve got ultra-libs like DE, CT but also cons like AL, MS. No reason I can figure binds these together, but mine’s out, so I guess Meh today… sadly.
@IWUJackson Don’t try to apply logic to alcohol laws. Therein lies madness.
Ten buck Irk.
You lost me at “on the dry side with an oaky finish,” but I’ll definitely be in at some point if this continues to be a thing with different kinds of wine!
What happened to Meh-branded stuff going to VMPs for free??
/giphy neglected mediocre person
Damn you giphy; you are so disappointing sometimes.
@darksaber99999 It’s a been a while since VMP did anything special for me. Certainly not seeing the $60/yr benefit of continuing the service.
For people in frozen states for the next few months… how are these packed? If they come frozen what happens then?
@Blasterzilla wine slushie!
@carl669 It won’t be frozen. It has to under 20F for it to freeze and and it has to be that way for a WHILE. I live in VT, have been ordering wine online year round for a decade and haven’t ever had a shipment freeze yet. I would be concerned if you lived somewhere remote where it was going to be a high of 10F for days on end or if you knew it was going to sit in an unheated truck through a weekend.
@corrado by next week - MN is below 10degrees for a week and then not much more than 20 there after. If the wine came by next Monday and by air - I think it would be fine. I have received frozen wine many times in the mail over he years. The companies usually replace it. One didn’t.
@corrado great. now i have to call off my wine slushie party. thanks for ruining it!
No!!! MEH, This is how Woot went down the slippery slope. They had wine one day as a feature and the next thing you know Wine.woot… and everything else .woot and the rest is history. Don’t do it!!!
@readnj And Woot happens to offer a mystery case of wine today also.
@rtjhnstn Different winery. I wish Wellington still shipped to Vermont.
@readnj
Don’t think the decline will happen here the same way - or at all. Hope.
@corrado
Why does Wellington no longer ship to VT? What happened?
@f00l Largely permitting, I think. I don’t Peter ever distributed into the state; even though our licensing is relatively cheap, we’re a small, rural market. I believe the original iteration of Wine.Woot took a more liberal approach to interpreting wine shipping laws versus Amazon’s very conservative approach. All I know is that without anything changing at a State level, a LOT of states suddenly went dark on wine.woot (but stayed lit on every on internet wine-buying site).
I don’t like the Irk label. It makes it not functional as a host gift. I want wine to look expensive even if it is cheap.
@CaptAmehrican
Ironically, all I want is the labels.
@CaptAmehrican
If I buy this, I can’t give bottles as gifts. I don’t want people who know me IRL to see me be a nutcase online also.
@f00l
What about the other way around?
@PlacidPenguin
That too I suppose.
@PlacidPenguin I ordered a case and will be glad to send you the labels from any bottles that I open.
Odds are decent that this is drinkable now, though it might be much better after a year or three or more. (Tonight I opened a 2009 Zin that was quite a bit better than when I first got it about four years ago.)
@baqui63
Thank you for the offer, but I couldn’t dare deprive you of your chance to own the labels.
Besides, a decent percentage of the $60 is for the labels.
@PlacidPenguin You wouldn’t be (I’d have owned them and then disposed of them as I saw fit).
Meh can’t deliver booze to WV, which is, coincidentally, the ONLY check in the positive category for living in WV.
If I hadn’t already overspent for Christmas, I’d totally jump on these! Please bring them back in a couple of months when I can afford some decent wine.
/giphy Deliver To Pennsylvania
Wow. You ship to my state! Almost no one else does!!! I’m in for a box. These will make great Christmas gifts to adults who enjoy wine.
@cwolfpack3
That looks exactly as how I remember PA.
I want fresh wine, not the old aged stuff…
Being a wine.wooter since Day 1 of launch (mmmm… Critters) and a ‘blind purchaser’ of every woot-badged wine until Amazon ruined that party coupled with meh’s track record of standing by what they sell, I would (and have) bet that this is a solid Zin. Wanted to go in for a case, but Christmas budgeting unfortunately limited to a single order.
Highfalutin… that’s how I roll.
/giphy pungent-highfalutin-rosemary
What say, meh? Can we order this for shipment to a different address than that on our account? Is that even an option…?
@chienfou Since you decided to ask versus trying, yes. Worked for me.
@chienfou yes… “We recommend shipping the wine to your business address.” seen above.
@KNmeh7 well, before I commit to using someone else’s address I would like to check to see if it’s OK with them, and it seems silly to go to that trouble if it isn’t easy to accomplish… (which it evidently is) Thanks for the info. I will keep it in mind the next go around!
I hope it doesn’t taste like
/giphy tart-crabby-saffron
OK, WineDavid, you can come out now. We know the wine is from Castoro Cellars…
@SIMBM That would appear to be the case. Abbey d’or Cellars appears to have gone belly-up over 20 years ago. If it is Castoro, I’m super-pumped. They truly do make Dam Fine Wine.
@SIMBM Very hard to turn down the Rutledge brothers.
I don’t get this one. $10 is not a good price for a mystery wine. It must have been expensive to make and cover the cost of materials.
@Dengue If history is any judge, this is a stupid good deal and you’re probably paying about half of what the stuff would cost at the winery. If you like Zin, I’d wager this one’s well worth $10/bottle.
@corrado I didn’t look into the deal very closely. It just sounded like it was some home brew and I don’t see how that would go up in value. I normally pay 10-15 a bottle for wine.
Why did you have to post this the same day that wine.woot posted a Wellington Case…
Damit.
Meh you get my money this time…
Oh come on! I live in Mississippi.
Can I get some empty Meh wine bottles? I’ll fill 'em with my own wine!
Just putting it out there — aside from being December-broke, I would have been far more likely to bite on this one if it had been three bottles each of two varietals or two bottles each of three varietals or even a vertical. Six of the same unknown is just a big ol’ risk.
I don’t drink much wine at all and haven’t really enjoyed the red wines I’ve tried, but if meh can figure out how to efficiently sell smaller quantities (three bottles?) and maybe sell some white wines, I’ll likely bite. I hope this sale is successful so we get more in the future.
here’s to hoping four for old mason jars fore that first bottle /buy
Can I get a mediocre label Vodka, Gin, or (most preferable) Tequila? I think that would be awesome…
Asking q of the people who are knowledgeable about wine:
Instead of this offer, I got the Wellington offer on Woot. My bad for spending the money, but hey.
So … how long - years - should I wait to drink those to have them somewhere near their primo?
@f00l Hard to say with the “Mystery” nature of the woot wine. In general, Peter’s wine will hold up for years. The I opened in '02 Syrah this past summer and it was still okay, but on the cusp of going off. The '06 Syrahs were still dynamite. Merlots & Cabs hold up pretty well, too, so I think you’ll do fine. Store them cool (in a cellar, if you’ve got one) and you’ll be fine.
@corrado
Thx.
No one makes wine the way some vineyards used to in France pre-1900, anymore do they? Where the bottle needed to lay for a century to be at prime, so the aristocrats used to stock their cellars for the great-grandchildren?
@f00l Here’s a decent chart for how long to age.
I can’t think of any wine (other than sparkling wines/Champagne) that really needed more than 10-20 years to age. After that, you have very expensive vinegar. For wine that stores longer, you make brandy. The high alcohol content makes it keep longer.
@rockblossom
I have read that the way prime vintages were produced in the old days, the Lords and Ladies used to routinely purchase some bottles that would not be ready to drink during their own lifetimes. They also purchase “quick bottles” for normal use.
WWI blew apart much of continental royalty’s and aristocracy’s stability. During the 1900’s the great traditional family fortunes declined and there was essentially a much smaller market for those “age-forever” wines (the market had been tiny in the first place), so vineyards like the various Rothschilds adjusted their techniques to produce wines that were ready a few decades sooner.
Or so I’ve read. Which means I’m possibly full of shit.
@f00l Dunno, maybe. Though it might have been the grapes they used, which died in The 19th Century from blight and were replaced with grafts on American rootstock.
@rockblossom Bordeaux is an obvious example of a region that still produces wine ‘for the future’ instead of the now. I bought some '05 Bordeaux for well under $100/bottle that wasn’t supposed to start being good until 2018.
Petite Sirah tends to be fickle, requiring several years to mellow, but shutting down for a decade or more in a ‘dumb’ period before emerging afterward as a magical wine. I have several bottles ('01, '02, and '03 vintages) that are lying in wait until about 2025 to see if that is, indeed, the case.
100 year wines though? Those sorts of things aren’t in my budget. Which is why I’m shopping on meh.
@corrado
Now I’m envious of your cellar
Cool. Pic?
@f00l I’ll try to remember to snap & upload tonight. It’s less “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous” and way more “Silence of the Lambs.” Did I mention I’m a meh shopper? And a Vermonter?
@corrado
Then perhaps you’re “New England Eclectic”.
@f00l
Some decent netflixing:
http://www.sourgrapesfilm.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2204371/ somm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5161502/ somm into the bottle
Sour Grapes discusses aged wine with some detail.
Showed up today. After I bought it I was getting nervous from the number of meh staffers saying “I don’t usually like red wine but I liked this”. I was afraid it was going to be sweet. (The first wine I liked was Sutter Home White Zinfandel. But it was 1982 and I was 19.)
My wife got a big kick out of the front label and read the entire back label out loud to me.
Cracked open the first bottle and poured some through an aerator. We both like it. After a few sips my wife said “I really like this.” So $10/bottle well-spent!
As I said earlier in the thread, I’m lucky in that I can tell decent wine from crap but not good wine from great wine. I never try to buy wine that has to lay down for years before drinking. So this is perfectly meh for me. Until I get sugar water or vinegar, it looks like meh wine is an automatic buy.
@SSteve did you try it at all without aerating it?
@carl669 Not at all. I can next time as an experiment if you want.
@SSteve I did, and it’s solid. For $10, I’d say this is a pretty good (blended) wine. It’s not overly sweet, and it’s really fairly dry. Personally, it gets almost everything that I wanted out of it.
@SSteve @adamselby thanks for the info!
Changed delivery to FedEx pickup due to signature.
Get there and they dont accept my ID and required additional proof…
Stupid FedEx
@darkzrobe That’ll teach you for using crayon to make your ID.
@SSteve Pfft Stencils.
I tried to order, but I live in Oklahoma. SMDH.
@weaviebee OK.
Got mine today, great packaging!
Sadly, my order was cancelled because Oklahoma. Was really looking forward to this…
@modtuc82 OK
Arrived! Love the WCC from address.
Now, a few months to settle out, and time to pull a cork.
Do they do Meh-offs here so we can reorder?
/giphy cloying-national-chestnut
@rjquillin
No Meh-offs,which has upset @phatmass.
@PlacidPenguin Keeping with the bizarro theme, wouldn’t be more of a “Meh it on” sale? They’ve got all that wine that’s just eating up climate-controlled storage space. I’ll be disappointed if it doesn’t pass this way again.
Anyone else notice the shipper is listed as “WOOT / WINE COUNTRY CONNECT”?
@fiveskin That’s how you know you chose… wisely.
Hey Meh. @hollboll etc.
I didn’t purchase this because Wine.Woot did Wellington in the same day.
But I seem to be handing out bottles as holiday gifts. So if you have an extra case around, becaise you couldn’t ship somewhere or other, I’ll take it. Charge me and ship.
Did you see that, @hollboll? @f00l wants to be charged double.
@Barney
Don’t make me wish you even more purple frost.
/giphy "purple frost"
@f00l Yeah, that’s one purple I don’t want.
So, I opened a bottle after it sat around for a week post transport and have to say it was on the “fruit forward” aka less dry side. Tasting blind I would have guessed it as Apothic. So, if wines in that style are your jam, then you’ll love this. Gift material around my house, though, which works out just fine. Hoping some of the old wine woot players make an appearance, since meh is happy to ship to GA.
Meh-a Culpa
I ordered this 6-pack on December 4th, wondering how Meh was planning to get it to me in Arkansas. Even though my state was not listed as one they could not ship to, I knew from past experience with Woot wine that it was unlikely. So I ponied up $60, more interested in the logistics than the product itself. Sure enough, ten days later, on December 14th, my order was canceled, and my money refunded. I had purchased a month of VMP with my order, so I was actually coming out ahead since I got to keep it. I’ve used the free shipping on two orders since in fact. So in my mind, I was already made whole by Meh.
Then today I heard my doorbell ring, and saw the FedEx guy hustling away as I opened the door. I wasn’t expecting a package, so I looked at the label and saw the WCC return address. Picking up the box confirmed it was too light to contain wine. I brought it inside and opened it to find a bunch of “mediocre wine accessories”, along with a nice apology from the Meh wine warehouse. I’d rather have the wine of course, but I will never need to buy another corkscrew, stopper, or pourer again for as long as I live. Thanks Meh.
@gruisinger Same here. Totally unexpected package on my porch. Before I panicked and called the bomb squad, I looked at the label. Meh Wine Warehouse. (Warehouse? You have a whole wa… ?) Sorry, getting off track there.
So, that’s a 6 wine glass holder in the back, tipped on its side. A nice wine bottle bag with 5 bottle openers, a foil cutter, and 8 wine bottle stoppers (2 of them purple!) Whew! I think I can set up a snazzy wine bar with this.
Thank You, Meh! That’s what I call a classy apology!
let me preface this by saying, i know nothing about wine.
i cracked a bottle of this on xmas night. the wine definitely seems fruit forward. it’s still good, but it’s sweeter than i typically like. so the question to all you som-meh-liers is, will this wine become drier as time passes? how much time?
@carl669 Paso wines are going to be fruit-forward which will give an illusion of sweetness. I was expecting a higher alcohol from a Zin; sometimes the increased alcohol will lead to perceived sweetness, too.
That said, even with the lower alcohol, I didn’t get the sense that this was under-attenuated (e.g. the yeast didn’t finish turning sugars into alcohol). I’ve had Castoro’s Zin before and really liked it (and it was $20+/bottle) and this fell a little more empty to me, but still a really good wine for $10.
There was a little edge to it that I expect will go away by next fall, but I wouldn’t necessarily expect the overall flavor profile to change significantly in the next 3 years. After that it will likely start getting “old” and the fruitiness will start to dissipate.
@corrado thanks! i didn’t consider that the “sweetness” might just be an illusion as you state. something i’ll need to take into account next time i open a bottle.
That wine was really good. I want more! Can I order more and VMP member (with meh socks even!)
Please do a 3 pack ideally dry not oaky white such that shipping arrives by end of February. I have need of a 10 dollar awesome bottle of wine in order to win.