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Outpost.

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jimbill

Had a bottle of the '07 Howell Mountain Zin. $34 at Costco. Underwhelmed.

This is my first bottle of theirs'. Way over ripened. To the point of being raisiny.

Is this typical Mike?

Costco had the Cab for $72. Out of my range.

Also, has our friend in Santa Cruz released his Pinot Noir?

Follow Ups:

In March below... - mkuller 20:08:34 04/21/10 (4)
...I posted about a zin dinner I went to.

Of the 8 zins I tasted, the Outpost was near the bottom.

Must be having trouble selling it if you see it at Costco.

It's $45 from their mailing list, so $32 isn't a bad price, as long as you like it.

I have some '04 and '05 Outpost I'm drinking now and it's pretty good - not at all raisiny.

Our friend has released his pinots and will charge you for a tasting if you go in.

I was underwhelmed by them.
- RE: In March below... - triodesteve 08:22:07 04/25/10 (0)
  Unless something has changed, Outpost is being made by Thomas Brown. I'm a big fan of his Pinot's, especially under his own label Rivers-Marie. In fact, it's the only list that I am on.
  Last summer I took one of his Cabs to a dinner party with a bunch of wine biz people. It was everything I dislike about a cab...over ripe, over oaked...maybe not over extracted, but I don't remember at this point. Everything his Pinots are not! No one took a second pour from the bottle!
  
  My favorite wine from the night was a white wine from the Golan Heights...I can't read Hebrew, so I have no idea what was in the bottle!!!
  
  BTW, Outpost has been sending me mailers for the last year or two.....and I've never had any connection with them....and being in Costco is an act of desperation (unless of course it's in your original business plan)...
  
  It's a good time to be a small producer and not have to worry about massive amounts of inventory!! Spring release is next week here in Walla Walla and I've sold thru 5 of my 6 wines from the last vintage. My wine club has a 7 plus year waiting list (even in the crappy economy I've only lost a few people).....now if I can only figure out how to make money!!!!!
- Ouch. - jimbill 20:21:32 04/21/10 (2)
  No reason not to charge for a tasting. Especially if you're a smaller operation.
  
  But I did enjoy the barrel sampling of the one pinot(?) I tried, and if I remember correctly, you also enjoyed it. Do you think it was the "being there" syndrome, or did it degrade with aging?
  - I remembered... - mkuller 20:51:40 04/21/10 (1)
    ...enjoying the samples we tasted more than the ones from a couple of months ago.
    
    Maybe it was the company...
    - RE: I remembered... - jimbill 15:22:08 04/22/10 (0)
      The company was definitely good.
      
      But as I said in your Lodi thread, "nothing like a vacationer to overpay and overpraise a wine". I was on vacation.

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