Layer Cake... Amazing Under $15 Reds Serious Quality, Great Values
We have some amazing bargains arriving this week from a very interesting project called Layer Cake. These wines deliver high quality at bargain prices and they've received rave reviews from wine critic Robert Parker. We're offering them at discounted prices and we're taking advance orders so you can secure some of these exciting, bargain-priced gems. We do anticipate that our allocation of Layer Cake wines will sell out fast so please act quickly on this special offer.
"First and foremost, there are three great value wines I tasted which didn't make it into the recently released "Parker's Wine Bargains: The World's Best Wine Values Under $25.00," published by Simon and Schuster in November, 2009. They come from the proprietor of Hundred Acre Vineyard in Napa, Jayson Woodbridge. Of course, his Hundred Acres wines sell for well in excess of $200 and get great reviews from me, but the Hundred Acre Cabernets are very limited in its production. Woodbridge's desire is to produce a $15 wine that tastes like a $50+ wine, and as hard as it might be to believe, he seems to have come very close to succeeding with the following three efforts, all called "Layer Cake." They are all screw-cap finished, so there will never be a cork issue, and there are about 20,000 cases of each one of them. They all sell at the remarkable price of $15 a bottle. With the glut of high-quality grapes available in California, Woodbridge also produces a Cabernet Sauvignon from the North Coast, and if it is as good as these three wines and priced the same, it will be another fabulous value." -Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
2007 Layer Cake Primitivo IGT
(Italy, Puglia)
On Sale $13.99
"The most rustic of these three wines, with lots of pepper, roasted herbs, meat juices, charcoal, and scorched earth, this spicy wine has an inky ruby/purple color and lots of body. It comes across like a rustic Zinfandel, but with loads of character and personality, displaying an almost savage intensity to its flavors. This is a wild, adventuresome wine that should drink nicely for several years. Bring on the pizza! " -Rated 89/100 Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
We have some amazing bargains arriving this week from a very interesting project called Layer Cake. These wines deliver high quality at bargain prices and they've received rave reviews from wine critic Robert Parker. We're offering them at discounted prices and we're taking advance orders so you can secure some of these exciting, bargain-priced gems. We do anticipate that our allocation of Layer Cake wines will sell out fast so please act quickly on this special offer.
"First and foremost, there are three great value wines I tasted which didn't make it into the recently released "Parker's Wine Bargains: The World's Best Wine Values Under $25.00," published by Simon and Schuster in November, 2009. They come from the proprietor of Hundred Acre Vineyard in Napa, Jayson Woodbridge. Of course, his Hundred Acres wines sell for well in excess of $200 and get great reviews from me, but the Hundred Acre Cabernets are very limited in its production. Woodbridge's desire is to produce a $15 wine that tastes like a $50+ wine, and as hard as it might be to believe, he seems to have come very close to succeeding with the following three efforts, all called "Layer Cake." They are all screw-cap finished, so there will never be a cork issue, and there are about 20,000 cases of each one of them. They all sell at the remarkable price of $15 a bottle. With the glut of high-quality grapes available in California, Woodbridge also produces a Cabernet Sauvignon from the North Coast, and if it is as good as these three wines and priced the same, it will be another fabulous value." -Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
2007 Layer Cake Primitivo IGT
(Italy, Puglia)
On Sale $13.99
"The most rustic of these three wines, with lots of pepper, roasted herbs, meat juices, charcoal, and scorched earth, this spicy wine has an inky ruby/purple color and lots of body. It comes across like a rustic Zinfandel, but with loads of character and personality, displaying an almost savage intensity to its flavors. This is a wild, adventuresome wine that should drink nicely for several years. Bring on the pizza! " -Rated 89/100 Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
2008 Layer Cake Shiraz
(South Australia)
On Sale $13.99
"This was not an easy vintage in Australia, but you would never know it from this wine. As one expects from any South Australian Shiraz, it has oodles of fruit, a big, thick, juicy mouthfeel, velvety tannins, and lots of crème de cassis, blackberry, peppery, and tarlike notes in a deep, full-bodied, lush style that should drink nicely for 3-4 years as well." -Rated 90/100 Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
2008 Layer Cake Malbec
(Argentina, Mendoza)
On Sale $13.99
"Dense purple-colored with notes of blackberry, earth, roasted meats, and a hint of barbecue spice, this wine exhibits great fruit, delicious, full-bodied texture, silky tannins, and a long finish. It does taste more like a $30-50 bottle of Malbec than one that can be purchased for $15. It should drink nicely for at least 2-3 years." -Rated 91/100 Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
"Keep in mind that what Jayson Woodbridge is doing is taking his winemaking team from Hundred Acre Vineyard, flying them around the world, and actually making these wines on site from top quality fruit. It is an innovative project, to say the least, but the proof is in the bottle, as they say, and at $15, readers are going to be exceptionally pleased with the quality of all three of these wines." -Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
(South Australia)
On Sale $13.99
"This was not an easy vintage in Australia, but you would never know it from this wine. As one expects from any South Australian Shiraz, it has oodles of fruit, a big, thick, juicy mouthfeel, velvety tannins, and lots of crème de cassis, blackberry, peppery, and tarlike notes in a deep, full-bodied, lush style that should drink nicely for 3-4 years as well." -Rated 90/100 Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
2008 Layer Cake Malbec
(Argentina, Mendoza)
On Sale $13.99
"Dense purple-colored with notes of blackberry, earth, roasted meats, and a hint of barbecue spice, this wine exhibits great fruit, delicious, full-bodied texture, silky tannins, and a long finish. It does taste more like a $30-50 bottle of Malbec than one that can be purchased for $15. It should drink nicely for at least 2-3 years." -Rated 91/100 Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
"Keep in mind that what Jayson Woodbridge is doing is taking his winemaking team from Hundred Acre Vineyard, flying them around the world, and actually making these wines on site from top quality fruit. It is an innovative project, to say the least, but the proof is in the bottle, as they say, and at $15, readers are going to be exceptionally pleased with the quality of all three of these wines." -Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
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