MTPockets 
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1840
 | | 05-22-2006 07:37 PM |
| Has anyone heard of this Paso Robles project(www.pharaohmoanswine.com)? Inaugural vintage is 2005, $570 per six-pack includes shipping and pyramid shaped wood box.
I hope the wine is better than the name of the winery and the packaging (try fitting a pyramid conveniently in your cellar). | | |
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Bob Bressler
Napa Valley
Wine Lover
Posts: 4969
| | 05-22-2006 08:00 PM |
| How does the argument go? It must be good if it costs that much. That is still north of $85/bottle. Has it suddenly become OK to charge that much? | | | |
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skwid
Wine Connoisseur
Posts: 5452
| | 05-22-2006 08:30 PM |
| That looks like $95/bottle if I do the math correctly. Yikes! | | | |
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love_cab_chard
Master of Wine
Posts: 12777
| | 05-22-2006 08:40 PM |
| Another $100.00 newcomer bottle of wine. Sign me up. | | | |
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Winegeek
San Francisco
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1534
| | 05-22-2006 08:41 PM |
| Assuming the brand name is a play on the word pheromones, aka The Scent of Eros, then perhaps they're trying to take business away from Viagra.
Richard | | | |
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Bob Bressler
Napa Valley
Wine Lover
Posts: 4969
| | 05-22-2006 09:05 PM |
| Quote:
That looks like $95/bottle if I do the math correctly. Yikes!
sorry - I pulled out the shipping and packaging to get more to numbers we usually talk about. | | | |
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Winetex
Austin, Texas
Master of Wine
Posts: 11429
| | 05-22-2006 09:38 PM |
| These guys have marketing problems on a number of levels. | | | |
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Eric White
San Ramon, CA
Advanced Sommelier
Posts: 9628
| | 05-22-2006 09:41 PM |
| Wow, I don't know where to start. I guess with the only good thing that can be said, which is at least they have a fine winemaker - Stephan Asseo, of L'Aventure. Beyond that I am simply left rather stunned by the whole concept  | | | 2008: the end of an error | |
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Jim Hanlon
Barrel Filler
Posts: 1205
| | 05-22-2006 11:22 PM |
| Stephan Asseo has been successful at L'Aventure, but the Pharoahmoans website talks about making a "low ethanol" Paso syrah. I'm pretty sure that the L'Aventure wines, including their syrah, check in north of 15%. If he's going to make low alcohol wines from similar terroir, it would seem like he'd have to change his winemaking rather significantly. | | | |
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pizinah
Barrel Filler
Posts: 1313
| | 05-23-2006 06:28 PM |
| Wow, aside from the hubris of charging $95/bottle for your first domestic syrah release, what an embarrassing, hilariously silly name... | | | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
VinoCellar.com Extraordinaire
Posts: 30967
| | 05-24-2006 01:07 AM |
| Are there any other $85 Syrahs (from California) out there? Pax isn't that expensive. | | | |
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love_cab_chard
Master of Wine
Posts: 12777
| | 05-24-2006 01:25 AM |
| Kongs | | | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
VinoCellar.com Extraordinaire
Posts: 30967
| | 05-24-2006 01:40 AM |
| Oh yes; Kongagaard. And it's $125. Gee. Maybe this stuff is a good buy  | | | |
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pizinah
Barrel Filler
Posts: 1313
| | 05-24-2006 02:02 AM |
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Oh yes; Kongagaard.
And it's $125.
Gee. Maybe this stuff is a good buy
Actually, Kongsgaard's $150 now. I stopped buying.
But how "PharaohMoans" (cracks me up just to write it) can command more than Pax, Saxum, Alban Reva, etc. defies belief... | | | |
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scravis
Grape Stomper
Posts: 127
| | 06-17-2006 12:27 AM |
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These guys have marketing problems on a number of levels.
I can't agree more. Coming from the same guys as Amuse Bouche, which I was a sucker and purchased the inaugural 2002 vintage...liked the painting, Barrett as winemaker, and the wine is incredibly average at 200/bottle! They must be trying to capture that audience of...Oh it's expensive it must be the next "cult" wine...well I bit with the first vintage but never bit again. In addition, they (Amuse Bouche) try the old...if you don't purchase we will allocate your wine to a person on the wait list; only to receive an offer letter the following year.
I'd much rather have a 6 pack of Alban Seymour. | | | |
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Randy Wigginton
Master of Wine
Posts: 10937
| | 06-17-2006 01:13 AM |
| Araujo is also $95. Kongsgaard.. I bought a couple, but despite my love of Kongsgaard, I am second guessing whether that was a good idea. These guys are insane. | | | |
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