Can anyone tell me when their mailer comes out each year?
Any guesses as to how long you have to be on the waiting list to be offered their wines?

Can anyone guess when someone on the mailing list will die?

Good question about the mailer. I'll have to ask my SO. He's on the list.

I joined a year or two ago. Got a small offer almost immediately. Threw it in the trash when I read that I would be paying them a year in advance.

Next.

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Originally posted by sydthesquid:
I joined a year or two ago. Got a small offer almost immediately. Threw it in the trash when I read that I would be paying them a year in advance.

Next.

Do you seriously have to wait a year before receiving your wines? If this is the case, do they offer any sort of 'futures' discount?

I know of a few other wineries that do this, but in each case, offer quite a nice discount for the priviledge of holding your money without delivering products . . .

Cheers!

I don't recall one way or another on the discount, but, yes, a year in advance payment.

OK for the retards that did not get it the first time, I asked two questions.

What time of the year does the mailer come out and how long do you have to wait on the mail list?

Syd, thank you for answering the 2nd question.

The Cayuse mailer typically comes out in September, and the wines ship the following November.

I can't answer your second question because I was a charter member of Christophe's mailing list, and I was able to buy as much of his first estate offerings from the 1998 vintage as I wanted.

Thank you Mark !!!!!

My understanding from the source is that there are currently 3000 names on the waiting list. I don't know how many people are actually on the list, or what that proportion is. I wasn't charter at Cayuse, but was on the main list as early as 2001 or so.

Yes, Cayuse sells as "futures". Not that huge of a difference from some other wineries with a tight mailing list. SQN sells wine in August for shipping in April. That is nearly a year in advance.

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Originally posted by veltliner:
My understanding from the source is that there are currently 3000 names on the waiting list. I don't know how many people are actually on the list, or what that proportion is. I wasn't charter at Cayuse, but was on the main list as early as 2001 or so.

Yes, Cayuse sells as "futures". Not that huge of a difference from some other wineries with a tight mailing list. SQN sells wine in August for shipping in April. That is nearly a year in advance.

veltliner----Good information to know, and thanks for posting! I guess I'm one of the 3000 names on the waiting list that still hasn't received an offer! BTW, you should post more often, you're only averaging two posts per year! (Quality posts though!)

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Originally posted by JPBone:
Can anyone tell me when their mailer comes out each year?
Any guesses as to how long you have to be on the waiting list to be offered their wines?

The mailer usually arrives in the middle of September and you have around a month to buy your wines and request more wines on the wishlist. I've been on the list since the 2003 vintage and am now up to 33 wines. I have a couple friends who signed up for the list in 2006 and were offered 3 bottles for that vintage. Once the Wine Advocate scores came out, I'm sure the waiting list doubled so it might take three or four years now to get offered any wine.

As far as getting a discount because you pay a year in advance...I'd say, "you're damn straight you get a discount." You get to buy the single vineyard syrahs for $45 instead of $70, the Flying Pig for $60 instead of $80-$100, and the Bionic Frog for $65 instead of $150. I'd say that's a pretty good discount!

I signed up on 4/24/2006.

I was offered 3 x 2005 Cailloux Vineyard Syrah in the Fall of 2006.

I was offered 3 x 2006 Cailloux Vineyard Syrah and 3 x 2005 God Only Knows Grenache in Sept 2007, this time as 3 packs only.

On the wait list...if anyone wants to share I am in!

And they sell out fast, so when you do get on the list, don't dawdle. Daudle? Dodle? doddle?

Not to mention that they make really good wines too. I take what they offer; send them my wish list and usually just keep on wishing. They sell out.

I am also on the wait list. I would be pleased to purchase any portion of an upcoming allocation. Thank you.

I'm a big fan of Cayuse too. Just signed up for the mailing list back in March, so I don't expect anything for a long time, but I've bought some stuff on Winebid and a local wine shop still had some bottles of '01 and '02 Cailloux on the shelves earlier this summer, so I stocked up. BTW, I thought the '04 Chamberlin was the best wine I've had so far this year.

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Originally posted by silk:
I'm a big fan of Cayuse too. Just signed up for the mailing list back in March, so I don't expect anything for a long time, but I've bought some stuff on Winebid and a local wine shop still had some bottles of '01 and '02 Cailloux on the shelves earlier this summer, so I stocked up. BTW, I thought the '04 Chamberlin was the best wine I've had so far this year.

Yes, the 04 En Chamberlin is also one of the best wines I've had this year but wait until you drink the 05. Completely knocked my socks off. Here is my tasting note for it:

This was the third wine opened in a kick ass menage a trois (00 Dauvissat La Forest and 06 Mon Aieul). The En Chamberlin vineyard consistently produces the best syrah of the single vineyard wines year in and year out and this beat prior vintages like the proverbial red headed step-child. First whiff was a slap in the face of wet fur, smoke, stinky French cheese, and beef blood (like when you cut into a ribeye a little too early because you are so frickin' hungry that you can't wait the 10 minutes to let it rest and the blood just runs onto your plate). The funk aroma on this wine is always one of my favorites--I don't know if there is a Cali or WA syrah that can duplicate a nose like this. Once I took my first sip I was immediately reminded of the famous Frank the Tank quote in the movie Old School, "Once it hits your lips, it's so good. Fill it up again!" The wine just bursts so many fruits in your mouth (remember that scene in Animal House when Bluto is in line at the cafeteria and he fills his mouth with cream puffs of whatever they were and he smacks his cheeks blowing it all over the preppy dude and his girl? I kinda felt like the guy, except Bluto had filled his mouth with raspberries, blueberries, cherries, and blackberries and they were now all over my face) that you just sit there stunned for a minute trying to figure out how a wine that smells like your wet dog and a steak could deliver such amazing fruit. With time in the glass, there was an interesting interplay of sublte oak every now and again with the fruit that kept you at rapt attention. The wine just continued to dazzle and with an extended finish, I could wait a couple of minutes in between gulps--though hard to do! Easy 96 pts.