Just a quick note to say – if you’re going to the Unwine’d tasting in Portland this weekend, look for me pouring at the PDX Urban Wineries table. I’ll be alongside another urban winemaker representing a few wines from our association, including our own. Stop by our table and try some of the wines of Portland.
We’re excited that Vincent is among the eleven wineries pouring at Noble Rot’s 10th Anniversary Bash on May 6.
It costs just $20, there will be music, Leather’s excellent food, Courtney might sing, it should be a bash indeed.
But if that’s not enough, think about this – the gorgeous city view on a late Sunday afternoon in spring, you taking it all in. How could you be anywhere else?
Vincent is teaming up again with Helioterra Wines for a spring tasting in Portland on Sunday, April 15. Time is 1-5pm. Location is The Slate, a mixed use space at 2001 NW 19th Avenue in NW Portland.
The real reason for this tasting, which is free, is to showcase Helioterra’s latest releases, a crisp 2011 Pinot Blanc and meaty, peppery 2010s of Mourvedre and Syrah. They are also launching their wine club with this event, so think about joining.
Vincent will pour the remaining 2010s and will have 1.5L magnum bottles of all 2010s for sale at special prices. We’ll have some food from Cheese Bar too.
So come taste our wines and introduce yourself if we haven’t met before. RSVP quickly at our event page on Facebook.
January 27 is Berserker Day over on the wine discussion group Wine Berserkers. What’s that? It’s the anniversary of the founding of the site three years ago, and they celebrate by getting wine producers and others to offer ridiculous deals to site members. The goal is to have the site be a better conduit between wine geeks and the wine industry than any other site out there. Wine Berserkers gets no revenue from the day. It’s simply about ridiculous deals from wineries to you. If you sign up for the Berserkers site (yes, it’s free and they are totally cool, no worries about your privacy, etc.).
Vincent Wine Company tried to participate two years ago on the first Berserker Day. However, we had no wine released yet and no way to really host people or otherwise make a good offer. Last year we gave a ridiculous deal on five of our 2009 Vincent Pinot Noir Eola-Amity Hills for $90, with a special bonus bottling for no charge that was actually a pre-commercial wine we made in 2008 from the Zenith Vineyard. Not bad.
This year, the slate of participants has grown. We also have more than one release available, so our package this year is slimmer, less expensive, and simply absurd. You get:
1 bottle 2010 Vincent Pinot Noir Armstrong Vineyard
1 bottle 2010 Vincent Pinot Noir Zenith Vineyard
1 bottle 2010 Vincent Pinot Noir Ribbon Ridge AVA
Full retail for these three wines is $96. Tomorrow, for our Berserker Day special, we’re offering this three-pack for $59 plus shipping. That’s less than $20 a bottle. Because of the giveaway nature of this deal, and the fact that there are going to be plenty more offers from other wineries, we’re limiting the offer to six 3-packs. Six buyers, then we’re sold out.
The offers will come out throughout the day on a special sub-forum of Wine Berserkers. Again, you have to log in as a member to see that forum and participate.
Why are we participating and why should you be interested? We’re not going to make any money here, but sure, we’ll have people who otherwise haven’t had our wine buy it and we hope love it, and maybe order more. Really, we’re doing it because Wine Berserkers has been a great and valuable addition to the internet wine world. We participate, we’ve met tons of great people through the site, and we want to give something back.
Hope to see you online at Berserker Day tomorrow.
We have a little known bottling in 2010 that’s going directly to restaurants – one restaurant to be precise – as a glass pour. Meaning, it’s priced low so a lovely restaurant like Ken’s Artisan Pizza will put it on their menu by the glass.
So for $9 a glass or (I believe) $36 a bottle, you can drink our mystery wine – the 2010 Vincent Pinot Noir Willamette Valley. What’s in this special bottling? Two barrels from one fermenter of mostly 777 clone topped up with a bit of Wadenswil. Naturally fermented, neutral oak aged, bottled without filtration, all Ribbon Ridge fruit but labeled as Willamette Valley for simple appeal.
This is fleshy, slightly wild Pinot Noir that’s not for keeping. It’s perfect for washing down some of Portland’s best pizza, so get down to Ken’s in SE Portland soon. Our 30-something cases remaining will go quickly.
The 2009 Vincent Pinot Noirs are sold out. Now we’re on to 2010s, with deliveries recently to E&R Wines, Storyteller Wine Company and Jade Teahouse. Look for more this week.
The Armstrong Vineyard bottling is extremely limited at this point. I’m saving some for a few key events, including out February 29 Classic Wines Auction dinner with Et Fille and Tabla Bistro. Unfortunately, that event is already sold out but we certainly plan to do more events like this in the future.
This Saturday, we’re pouring the 2010s at Vino on SE 28th in Portland. Stop by to taste and browse this terrific neighborhood wine shop.
People always ask if I have a tasting room or if I’m open for the Thanksgiving weekend. Really, I’m too small a producer to do much of that stuff, yet.
However I will be pouring from 4-6pm this Friday, November 25 at ENSO Winery at 1416 SE Stark Street in Portland. Consider it my Thanksgiving Weekend event.
I’ll have the new wines – the 2010 Vincent Pinot Noir Zenith Vineyard, 2010 Vincent Pinot Noir Armstrong Vineyard and 2010 Vincent Pinot Noir Ribbon Ridge. Come taste, no charge, and think about what bottles you want for holiday drinking and gift giving.
