Undergroundcellar wine deals.
Buy good wines, get upgraded to great wine! This offer has only 2 days left!
http://www.undergroundcellar.com/?r=kar-mun-2
(Use my link for a $25 first time user credit! - which means a $1 nett for first bottle for this offer!)
Here is the link for the offer: https://www.undergroundcellar.com/wine-deals/regal-rhone-inspired-reds
Buy a bottle for $26, and you may get fantastic upgrades (valued up to $200!). Buy more bottles for guaranteed upgrades. This is what you buy for $26:
2008 Verve Wines Sonoma Mountain Syrah 750ML for $26/bottle (or $1 nett for first time buyers!) but only 3.59% of the offer, ie 96%+ are UPGRADES!!
Winemaker Notes:
Hand harvested grapes — 100 % destemmed. Fermented in small open top stainless steel fermenters and T-Bins. Cap manually punched down two to three times a day during fermentation. 3 days cold soak and 9 days total cuvaison average. Aged an average of 24 months in 50% new. Bottled unfined and filtered.
Tasting Notes:
This wine is made from mature hillside vines, and shows layered floral and ripe fruit aromas focused on blackberries and plums. Its rich palate shows multiple layers of dark fruit with berries and fig intermingled with mocha, slate and lots of exotic spices. The wine has a full and smooth palate that displays a linearity and purity of fruit that expresses its mountain fruit sourcing. The finish lingers with fruit freshness and cleansing acidity, balanced by very fine tannins. The wine will gain in depth and complexity if decanted at room temperature for 2 or 3 hours before serving.
This is what you might be upgraded to:
2001 Chateau Beaucastel Chateauneuf-du-Pape Red Blend 750ML valued at $200/bottle at the winery (only 0.30% of the offered bottles)
Accolades:
96 pts.- Robert Parker: "Beaucastel has been on a terrific qualitative roll over the last four vintages, and the 2001 Chateauneuf du Pape (which Francois Perrin feels is similar to the 1990, although I don’t see that as of yet) is a 15,000-case blend of 30% Grenache, 30% Mourvedre, 10% Syrah, 10% Counoise, and the balance split among the other permitted varietals of the appellation. This inky/ruby/purple-colored cuvee offers a classic Beaucastel bouquet of new saddle leather, cigar smoke, roasted herbs, black truffles, underbrush, and blackberry as well as cherry fruit. It is a superb, earthy expression of this Mourvedre-dominated cuvee. Full-bodied and powerful, it will undoubtedly close down over the next several years, not to re-emerge for 7-8 years. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2025. "
Winemaker Notes:
The vineyard is planted in all the traditional grapes of Châteauneuf-du-Pape: Grenache, Mourvèdre, Syrah, Cinsault, Vaccarese, Counoise, Terret Noir, Muscardin, Clairette, Picpoul, Picardin, Bourboulenc, and Roussanne. For their red wines, Mourvèdre has the largest percentage (over 30%), followed by Grenache (30%), Counoise, Syrah, and Cinsault. All thirteen varieties may be used in the final blend.
or maybe this bottle?
2013 Guigal Vignes de L'Hospice Saint-Joseph Red Rhone Blend 750ML valued at $125/bottle at the winery (only 0.30% of the offered bottles)
Accolades: 95 pts.- Wine Advocate: “Brought up all in new oak, the 2013 St Joseph Vignes des Hospices is a huge success in the vintage and needs to be snatched up by savvy readers. Possessing massive granite character, with notes of charcoal, crushed violets, wet rock and cassis and blackcurrant fruit, this beauty is full-bodied, concentrated, chiseled and beautifully pure. Drink this total rock star St Joseph anytime over the coming 15-20 years.” Winemaker Notes: Grown on the vineyard directly across from Hermitage and planted on the same rock formation, dramatically perched above the town of Tournon, the Vignes de l'Hospice makes perhaps the most persuasive argument as to why Saint-Joseph at one time was considered superior even to Hermitage. It shares with the best Hermitage a powerful intensity, yet the elegance of Saint-Joseph is beautifully apparent in how the wine draws out and finishes.
Other upgrades ranges from $28-$65/bottle of value!
Good luck if participating!
p/s: Full disclosure, I have a very small investment interest in Underground Cellar via Angelist.