INSIDER DEAL! XX% Off Dashe Les Enfants Terribles Mixed Reds

Two excellent, 92 and 91-point, single vineyard, Old World style wines from Dashe Cellars. Today’s 4 pack includes both the 2018 Dashe Les Enfants Terribles Zinfandel and the 2018 Dashe Les Enfants Terribles Grenache.

Today we’re very happy to welcome Dashe Cellars to our Insider Deals with two stellar examples from their highly acclaimed Les Enfants Terribles (“Wild Children”) series of Old World style wines. As the winery describes, these wines are “fermented with the native yeasts on the grapes; aged in large, French oak barrels; unfined; and bottled with low SO2 levels.”

Intended to let the true essence of the grape shine though in a very food-friendly way, the wines are made by the innovative Mike Dashe who worked with Paul Draper at Ridge Vineyards for a number of years before starting his own Dashe Cellars. The Les Enfants Terribles idea started with the Zin a number of years ago and due to its popularity has evolved into a number of other varietals as well. And you don’t want to miss the two delicious examples we have today!

Wine Enthusiast rates the Zinfandel on offer here today at 92 points and the Grenache at 91 points. We agree giving both a Taste Rating of 9 (91-93 points).

Both also have an SRP of $34 but, of course, you won’t pay anywhere near that price through today’s deal…

For the next day you can get the Dashe Les Enfants Terribles 4-pack (2 bottles of the 2018 Zinfandel plus 2 bottles of the 2018 Grenache) for just $XX.95 ($XX.XX/bottle). That’s a discount of XX%, or over $XX a bottle!

This 4-pack deal is available to ship to the following states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV and WY. (These states are dependent on the offering winery/licensee and are not representative of all our deals. Every deal can have different, sometimes more, sometimes less, states available.)

Shipping is a flat $6.99 per order, no matter how many 4-packs you buy. Packages ship in cardboard (no styrofoam). Read on for our full review.

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Up first, let’s take a look at the 2018 Dashe Les Enfants Terribles Mendocino Cuvee Zinfandel which comes from the Signal Ridge Vineyard in the Mendocino Ridge appellation. You will receive 2 bottles in today’s 4-pack.

From the winery:

The grapes for this blend came from Signal Ridge Vineyard — at upwards of 3000 feet, the highest elevation vineyard in all of Mendocino, Napa, and Sonoma Counties. The elevation of the vineyard is so distinctive that it falls within a special appellation, the “Mendocino Ridge,” which is the only appellation in America that is designated on basis of elevation. The high elevation, steep slopes, and extremely rocky soil make the ideal growing conditions for making complex, balanced, compelling wines.

We modeled this wine after Grand Cru wines from the Beaujolais region of France. Its light red color, excellent aromatics, and silky smooth texture mark it as a more “Old World” style of wine; extremely drinkable and enjoyable on its own.

We make this wine using a technique called “carbonic maceration.” About 10% of the grapes are pitchforked into the tank as whole clusters. We do not crush the remaining grapes, and instead let the whole berries fill the tank. The tank is closed and blanketed with CO2 gas, and the fermentation is then conducted using the native yeasts on the grapes. This technique results in a distinctive fruity aroma, lighter color, and complex midpalate.

After fermentation, the wine is racked into a special aging barrel—a giant 900-gallon French oak foudre from Burgundy, whose large format allows us to age the wine without much oak flavor in the wine. The result is a very fruit-forward wine that has much of the character and texture of oak-aged wine, but without the typical oak flavoring.

We age the wine for five months in barrel, and then immediately bottle it to capture the fresh fruit character of the wine. The result is a beautifully balanced wine that is delicate, yet with lots of complexity and great length in the finish.

Production: 854 cases
Oak Aging: 5 months; 900 gallon French Oak “foudre”

Produced and Bottled by Dashe Cellars
13.9% Alcohol
Cork

The 2018 Dashe Les Enfants Terribles Mendocino Cuvee Zinfandel opens with a fragrant, fruity aroma of ripe blackberry and raspberry plus white pepper with a hint of Beaujolais-like bubble gum from the carbonic maceration. It’s a fantastic start!

It only takes one taste to know this is not your typical Zinfandel but I love it. (You’ll want to give it a good amount of air for it be at its most delicious though.) The wine features fresh, juicy fruit flavors similar to the nose with some cranberry and pomegranate wrapped up in a lovely smooth, full and round mouthfeel. You’ll also find good acidity and balance.

It ends dry, fruity and long. This is definitely a unique Zinfandel that is indeed very Beaujolais-like as the winery intended. Also, due to the natural way it is made, our bottle did have some harmless sediment on the bottom of the cork so be careful when you open it. It was even a bit better on day 2.

Up next we have the 2018 Dashe Les Enfants Terribles Grenache from a vineyard in the Clarksburg appellation of California. You will receive 2 bottles in today’s 4-pack.

From the winery:

These Grenache grapes are grown on a flat, rocky, former riverbed along the San Joaquin delta near the town of Clarksburg. Although the days are quite warm, the nights are quite cool because cold air and fog from the ocean flow up the river valley at night which chills down the vines. These hot days and cold nights result in fruit with bright, vibrant aromatics and great acidity. We love the fresh, red fruit of these Grenache grapes, which produce one of the most drinkable and lovely wines we produce at Dashe Cellars. Because of the way we make this wine—fermented with the native yeasts on the grapes; aged in large, French oak barrels; unfined; and bottled with low SO2 levels—we felt this is an ideal addition to our Les Enfants Terribles (the “Wild Children”) series, wines made in an Old World style. The resulting purity of flavor, velvety texture, and lush midpalate is a break from the brash, fruit-forward style of many Californian wines.

The grapes were harvested in the middle of the night to keep the grapes very cold and maintain the fruit aromatics and acidity. Since we loved the character of the fruit, we aged the wine in one of our 900-gallon French oak casks from Burgundy (15 times the size of a “normal” French oak barrel). By using the larger oak vessel, we intentionally kept this wine away from heavy oak influences, and the short aging process enhanced the lovely fruit character of the wine.

Production: 389 cases
Oak Aging: 7 months; 900 gallon older French barrel

Produced and Bottled by Dashe Cellars
13.8% Alcohol
Cork

The 2018 Dashe Les Enfants Terribles Grenache opens with a very pleasing, almost Pinot Noir-like aroma of strawberry and a touch of cranberry with some earthy forest floor aromas and a little bit of spice. It’s a great start!

Taking a sip reveals a very tasty, juicy Grenache. Quite well balanced and fresh in the mouth, it features good depth with similar flavors to the nose and a smooth mouthfeel. And it gets even better as it has more air.

It ends dry, long and juicy and was even slightly better on day 2. Just like the Zin, it also has some harmless sediment at the bottom of the cork so be careful when opening. This is very tasty!

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