What's up fellow Wine Nerds! So if you are one of the few who follow along my blog, you would know that Wine.com is one of my favorite places to get wine. If you live in the states, I would implore you to sign up to their Stewardship member service. You pay 48$, and you get free unlimited shipping for a whole year. 1 bottle, or a few cases, free! Then not only that, their selection is endless. But on top of all that, being a Stewardship member, you also get offers from wineries that only do allocations, or rare hard to get wines. Allocation wine is where you sign up to a winery's mailing list, and then you wait to be able to purchase a bottle. Some are instant, and some you have to wait anywhere from 2-15 years! But at Wine.com, you have access to some of these hard to get wines.
Anthill Farms is one of those wineries where you have to buy direct from them for many of their bottling's. Since I am a Stewardship member, I have access to a few of these, of course before they sale out on the site, which they normally do. After tasting this Pinot, it is easy to see why! This Pinot is on the medium side of the spectrum, very earthy. Lots of cherry, and even some rose petals. Just a great example of Anderson Valley Pinot Noir. I am hearing that 2019 was a great year for all Pinot's in the state, and so far I have to agree, CHEERS!
Never heart about wine.com, but it sounds amazing to have the opportunity to get wines you cant find on the market. I can actually see that our liquor store (wine monopoly) in Norway (vinmonopolet.no) actually had this wine. But we are so lucky here in Norway that our liquor store is kind of well known by producers. It's kind of an honor if the producers got their wine into vinmonopolet😅
I can't buy this one anymore from vinmonopolet, but from the description it sounds amazing!
I am going to remember the year 2019, because next year are me and friends going to USA. Hoping to try out lots of wines from USA! :D
Oh nice! Yeah if you can ever buy it, I highly recommend it. And that does say a lot about your wine store. Another thing about allocation wines, is they also go to resteraunts, but of course high end wine shops, but with a mark up right lol. Even wine.com has a higher mark up.
There is a winery called Kosta Brown that I waited about 2 years to buy the entry level offerings, and those cost 69$ from them, plus shipping, The after market value of those wines where 115$, and up, depending on what the critics said. Their single vineyard bottling's required 5 years of waiting, but to be on the mailing list still, you had to buy your allocation, or you lost it. The demand some of these wines have are crazy!
I will remember the name and see if some restaurants have it on their wine meny. It is so much fun to see special wines on the wine meny!
Thats awesome! :D