One more time! Grab a Zin, do-si-do, and let’s take it for another dance! The ever-popular Miro is back for a Second Pour. If you’ve been around here for the last 10+ years or so, you know Miro always knocks it out of the park. This is no different.

Juicy, smooth, succulent fruit, straight from the rugged hillside of Bastoni Vineyard. Just 10 cases or so remaining, so if you got it before, here’s your chance to reload. If you didn’t, now is the time to pull the trigger.

At over 40% off, all the way down to a mere $23 for this top single vineyard, it over-delivers in a BIG way. We frequently don’t brag about scores from outside of the mainstream wine press, yet the 97 points this earned from Sunset International is noteworthy and accurate enough to define this faultless, intense, no, make that explosively delectable beauty.

Miro Cellars is a low-key winery in Sonoma spearheaded by Miro Tcholakov. We’ve been working with him for over a decade and have been able to offer winner after winner to you, our fine Operatives. He arrived in Napa Valley first to work a harvest in 1990 which spurred a nine-year stint at Dry Creek Vineyard. Since 1999 he’s been the winemaker at Trentadue and does his own thing on the side. Miro is a passion project, if you will, for when he and his better half are not busy judging international wine competitions or designing labels. We’ve been lucky enough to stay on his good side, and they hook us up with wildly delicious deals when a few cases remain, as his wines sell out fast, year-in-year-out.

And souring from Bastoni shows what kind of “ins” Miro has in the industry. A hidden spot within the recently throned Fountaingrove District due east of Russian River Valley and south of Knights Valley, only the best of the best like Carol Shelton and Joseph Swan share fruit from this prized vineyard.

The wine itself is stunning. Warm berry pie, touches of black pepper and licorice, this is textbook California Zinfandel. The copious amount of sweet fig jam and all manners of blackberry, boysenberry, and cherry mixed with baking spices is simply heavenly. So much complexity! It’s all wrapped around a big, dense, delicious core. We told you we had something JUICY for you!

OG Operatives know the Miro style well. Truly impossible to resist. So why try? Just give in. You’ll be glad you did.

97 Points – Sunset International

“Balanced, nice, and smooth. Full mouth, succulent, nice vanilla bean, perfectly ripe fruit, cocoa.”