The winery's closing. This is the end of Sean Thackrey wines. The final Pleiades (XXXII) is available half off ($14), free shipping. I just bought a case. I'll go fish out the website address and post it here in case anyone slse interested. Contact them at the address below.
Pleiades Wine Company <info@pleiadeswinecompany.com>
Here's the body of the notification:
Dear Friends,
As the leaves fall and we once again pretend to know the difference between gratitude and gluttony, our offering comes into view. Pleiades XXXII—our last red blend, and in some sense, the last word in a long tradition.
Thirty-eight years of ferment, folly, and joy are now distilled into less than 725 remaining cases of wine made by Pleiades Wine Company. That’s it. Once gone, we shall make no more. This is the truth, and not even a very complicated one: the winery is closing. Not in a blaze of glory. More like a dignified nod, perhaps over the rim of a well-used glass.
Pleiades XXXII has the peculiar virtue of not needing to be explained, but if you must: it is the wine you bring when the table is crowded with contradiction. When the turkey clashes with the tamales. When Uncle Charles wants to talk metaphysics, and your niece wants to talk Marxism. When laughter might border on madness, and the only thing holding it together is a wine that insists, politely but firmly, that it will go with whatever you’ve got.
This is that wine.
Continuing our long history of erratic generosity, we’ve kept the 50% off pricing on all bottles and complimentary shipping on full-case 12-bottle orders. Because if the world is going to end, one might as well stock the cellar.
We do not promise transcendence. Only a bottle that honors what came before it: a blend made not by formula, but by intuition. Not to impress, but to delight.
Order now. Or don’t. But know that once the last cork is pulled, new editions of Pleiades will be no more.
And what remains? Perhaps only that most elusive thing—pleasure.
Yours in wine and defiance,
Pleiades Wine Company