Good Juice Direct

Dear Good Juice Customers,
We would like to thank all of you for your continued support of our site over the past two years. Unfortunately, even with everyone's best efforts, maintaining an on-line presence just became too difficult to maintain. I would like to personally thank all of you who supported us on a regular basis. It was terrific interacting with all of you, talking about our favorite subject...wine! Although our on-line site GJD will no longer exist, if you are interested in receiving information on daily deals from our storefront site, Grand Cru Wine Shop, I encourage you to contact [email protected] to get on his e-mail distribution list. Tom has been a wine retailer for over 40 years, and there's very few people on this earth who know as much about wine as Tom. Much of what I know, I learned from Tom. One advantage of signing up for Tom's e-mails is that he will often market wines that are only available in smaller quantities. We did not have the luxury to promote some of these highly sought-after gems on the GJD site.

All outstanding orders will be fulfilled and shipped out by the end of the week. If you have a need to place an order for one of your favorites, today will be the last day the site is up. Those orders will also be fulfilled and shipped out by Friday.

I wish all of you a wonderful summer, and may all your wines be good juice!

Steve

Best Buy Oregon Pinot Noir?
This is a lot of Pinot for $20.

It's sweet, spicy, and smooth and drinking beautifully right now. That's my impression, anyway, but you don't have to take my word for it (even though I retasted it on Friday). I've got Stephen Tanzer to back me up (his review is way down at the bottom).
And even more impressively, I've got a California wine writer singing its praises. And when you get the wine editor for the San Francisco Chronicle saying pretty things about Oregon wine, it must be pretty good (I'm quoting him below).
To top it off, we've managed to get this beauty at a great price, the (almost) best in the country. (Well, there is this guy in Portland selling it for 80 cents less, but I'm ignoring him; you should, too.) And so, without further ado ...

2011 Stoller Family Pinot Noir "Estate" (Dundee Hills, OR)
Shelf price: $27.99 Collectors' Club price $19.99 net
Reviewed by Jon Bonne, San Francisco Chronicle -- "Score another for experience, this time from winemaker Melissa Burr. Stoller's more straightforward bottling, formerly known as the JV, is plush and oak-accented, with warm accents of bergamot, nutmeg, dry bark. The best part of a sunny forest. The fruit is polished cherry, with a beautiful texture and none of the spiky acidity that was a risk in 2011.

"Juicy and focused" Oregon Pinot Noir -- On Sale!