INSIDER DEAL! Darn Near Perfect Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel

Save 43% on the Perfect 10 Denier-Handal Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel. Only 154 cases produced!

Who doesn’t love a good Zin deal? Well today, we've got a pretty special one that comes from one of the same winemakers (Lucas Meeker) as one of our previous perfect 10, highly popular deals, the Meeker ZSM.

This extremely small production wine (only 154 cases produced) is made by Denier-Handal Wines. This 100% Zinfandel spends 20 months in 2-year-old French oak barrels and has almost no residual sugar (less than 1 g/L). It also makes a great pick for your Thanksgiving table.

Here's some more info on the winery and their stellar pedigree:

An award-winning, family-run winery in the heart of Dry Creek Valley. Our fascination with wine-grape growing began in South America, where we lived in Ecuador for 38 years, and continues today with our grape growing and wine-making ventures in Sonoma County.

Our winemaking is a relatively recent venture. For over twenty years we were primarily grape growers selling our premium grapes to some of the best wineries in Sonoma and Napa counties with whom we have long-standing relationships. One of our client-wineries was Wellington Vineyards in Glen Ellen owned by the Wellington family of Sonoma. Peter Wellington, owner-winemaker, produced several award-winning, vineyard-specific Cabernet Sauvignons, including one from our Dry Creek Vineyard. Peter Wellington helped us develop and make our wines. We grew and produced boutique lots of Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, Sagrantino, a Red Blend, and Cabernet Sauvignon at the Wellington facility in Glen Ellen. We now produce our wines at the Meeker custom crush facility in Healdsburg and continue to receive consulting support from Peter Wellington as well as David Noyes who also worked with Wellington.

We continue to source excellent Zinfandel and Syrah grapes from small family-owned vineyards that follow our high standards in growing grapes using organic practices and supporting sustainability. These farming relationships ensure that our grapes will continue to produce award winning wines.

Of course, this type of expertise normally comes with a hefty price tag. Typically retailing for $33, you won't pay anywhere near that price through today's Insider Deal...

For the next day you can get 4 bottles of the Denier-Handal Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel for just $79.99 plus just $6.99 for shipping. That's a total discount of 43%!

Buy multiples and you'll still pay just $6.99 in shipping, no matter how many 4-packs you buy. Read on for our full review.

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

This limited time, winery direct offer ends Wednesday 10/19/2022 at noon (PT) unless it sells out sooner.

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From the winery:

Tasting Notes: Deep dark red velvety color! Rich ripe fruit, (blackberry and raspberry), invites a taste. The nose evolves to strawberry jam and cinnamon spice. In the mouth blackberries and dark plum, and creamy cassis persist, strongly complimented by flavors of toasted brown sugar and cinnamon. Delicious! These progress to a lingering finish of dark fruit flavors, caramel, and burnt sugar, which plays against the wine’s well-balanced acid and tannic structure.

Harvest notes: We hand harvest our Dry Creek Valley fruit at night during September. The sugar and acid levels were in balance at nearly perfect levels at harvest due to the warmth of summer. The fruit arrived at the crush pad shortly after harvest while the grapes were still cool.

Food Pairing: It perfectly accompanies light salami hors d’oeuvres, soup, white meat and vegetable pies.

Produced and Bottled by Handal-Denier Vineyards, LLC
14.8% Alcohol
Closed with cork

The 2019 Denier-Handal Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel opens with a very enticing aroma of ripe, brambly blackberry with loads of lovely, assorted baking spice notes plus touches of licorice and vanilla. Pleasing right from the first pop and pour, it is especially good after it has a bit of time to breathe.

Taking a sip reveals a lovely, balanced, flavorful, darn near perfect example of Zinfandel. Juicy, savory and delicious, the wine features good structure, a smooth mouthfeel and great depth with all those notes from the nose translating over quite beautifully and harmoniously in the mouth.

It ends dry and quite long. It gets even better the longer it is open, holding up wonderfully on day two. This has got some good aging potential too, if you can resist drinking all 4 bottles now!

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"I opened up our first bottle last weekend and was blown away. "

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Get the 2019 Denier-Handal Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel while you can! It ends Wednesday 10/19 at noon Pacific.

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