Rack & Riddle Sparkling (4)

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Not every site makes it a year, you know. That’s why, when Wine.Woot heard Home.Woot was turning one today, everyone knew we HAD to do something nice.

Our original plan was to grab a bottle of NV Sonoma County Blanc de Noirs and break it over the head of the buyers. We figured it’d be a nice way to christen them, in the same way a boat is christened before it sails! Unfortunately HR got wind of this idea and we had to watch a little PowerPoint called “Glass And Your Co-Workers: Never A Party!” and that idea was scrapped.

Then, our backup plan was the NV North Coast Sparkling Rose (which won the Silver Medal in the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, fyi!). We planned to hire Neil Diamond to come and serenade the Home.Woot team with his smash hit, “Cracklin’ Rosie” while handing out glasses full of bubbly strawberry flavors. Of course, when we went to Petty Cash about it, and showed them his rider… well, you’d be surprised how much it can cost to order an M&M sorting machine.

But we weren’t defeated! We grabbed a tasty NY North Coast Brut and started planning a nice vacation for everyone who’d ever worked on a Home.Woot sale! We even chartered a boat, before someone kindly let us know there wasn’t actually a way to sail a boat from Texas to New York. Wish that had come up before we mad that non-refundable deposit.

Anyway, we had just enough left to buy a NY North Coast Blanc de Blancs and assemble this lovely four pack in Home.Woot’s honor. If you run into them today, say congrats, won’t you? Because it’s not every day a website gets to celebrate one year of deals!

NV Sonoma County Blanc de Noirs 750ml

• GRAPES 100% Chardonnay
• APPELLATION: North Coast
• FERMENTATION: Methode Champenoise
• TIME ON TIRAGE: 9 months aging ..
• ALCOHOL: 12.5%
• TOTAL ACIDITY: 0.694g/100mL
• PH: 3.15
• DOSAGE: 1.25%

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