Wine pricing

[Ash Housewares]

To tie this back to finance, my favorite Pinot within reach of the common man is Mt. Difficulty’s Roaring Meg:
http://www.mtdifficulty.co.nz/catalog/P1442-Roaring-Meg-Pinot-Noir-2007.html

It costs NZ$28, and has won numerous accolades. The Central Otago region is emerging as one of the world’s premier Pinot Noir areas, and this wine shows why.

I think only one SD store carries it (from what I can gather on the web), a place called Louis Carufel Wine Co.

Oh yeah, finance. The exchange rate has swung wildly away from NZ, with the NZD dropping from ~72 cents to ~52 cents in just a couple months. Therefore you should be able to scoop up wines like this at a great price.

[temeculaguy]

Wine for me has three categories: daily swill, date or weekend wine and special occasion or collection/library wine.

Daily swill requires it to be under $10 for 750ml, as a two glass a night guy, that is my $5 a day overhead. Weekend wine can go up to $30 and the collecter stuff has about a $100 cieling with some exceptions, but I only buy 4 or 5 a year and prefer to buy $50 wines and age them ten years.

Some of you mentioned my favorite dailies, Menage is my standard, love it. If I have to pick a Yellow tail, i’d go with the 1.5 litre of Shiraz from costco at $8.50 it’s four days worth, so it’s a bargain. I can’t do chuck, just cant get into it. Blackstone is the other fav, costco has the white label for about $11, it is noticeably better than the copper label but even that is a fine daily.

The best daily, combination weekenders are the cameron hughes wines at costco. They vary since cameron is a broker and owns no grapes. He is basically a costco employee and that is the only place you can find it. The Stagg’s leap cab at $12 was a godsend, the lot 16 meritage is still my favorite but my stock is low. The trouble with the camerons is that they arey are all one time deals, when they sell out that’s it forever. Their business model is impressive, no marketing, no advertising, no distributor, every bottle is paid in full by costco before it is labeled and they can sell it for 30-40 cents on the dollar. http://chwine.com/

Their tempranillo is a bit high for a cameron at $21, but a love temp, so I think that is my next endeavor. Don’t screw around when buying cameron, it can sell out forever in a day. I have frieds in different parts of the state that I sometimes call upon to buy me a case when it’s sold out locally. Lately I’ll buy one bottle, run to the car, open it, taste it, and if I like it, head back in and get a case. It may sound crazy but more than once I’ve taken one home and returned the next day only to find out it’s sold out forever. When they are good they are damn good.

[temeculaguy]

Wine for me has three categories: daily swill, date or weekend wine and special occasion or collection/library wine.

Daily swill requires it to be under $10 for 750ml, as a two glass a night guy, that is my $5 a day overhead. Weekend wine can go up to $30 and the collecter stuff has about a $100 cieling with some exceptions, but I only buy 4 or 5 a year and prefer to buy $50 wines and age them ten years.

Some of you mentioned my favorite dailies, Menage is my standard, love it. If I have to pick a Yellow tail, i’d go with the 1.5 litre of Shiraz from costco at $8.50 it’s four days worth, so it’s a bargain. I can’t do chuck, just cant get into it. Blackstone is the other fav, costco has the white label for about $11, it is noticeably better than the copper label but even that is a fine daily.

The best daily, combination weekenders are the cameron hughes wines at costco. They vary since cameron is a broker and owns no grapes. He is basically a costco employee and that is the only place you can find it. The Stagg’s leap cab at $12 was a godsend, the lot 16 meritage is still my favorite but my stock is low. The trouble with the camerons is that they arey are all one time deals, when they sell out that’s it forever. Their business model is impressive, no marketing, no advertising, no distributor, every bottle is paid in full by costco before it is labeled and they can sell it for 30-40 cents on the dollar. http://chwine.com/

Their tempranillo is a bit high for a cameron at $21, but a love temp, so I think that is my next endeavor. Don’t screw around when buying cameron, it can sell out forever in a day. I have frieds in different parts of the state that I sometimes call upon to buy me a case when it’s sold out locally. Lately I’ll buy one bottle, run to the car, open it, taste it, and if I like it, head back in and get a case. It may sound crazy but more than once I’ve taken one home and returned the next day only to find out it’s sold out forever. When they are good they are damn good.

[temeculaguy]

Wine for me has three categories: daily swill, date or weekend wine and special occasion or collection/library wine.

Daily swill requires it to be under $10 for 750ml, as a two glass a night guy, that is my $5 a day overhead. Weekend wine can go up to $30 and the collecter stuff has about a $100 cieling with some exceptions, but I only buy 4 or 5 a year and prefer to buy $50 wines and age them ten years.

Some of you mentioned my favorite dailies, Menage is my standard, love it. If I have to pick a Yellow tail, i’d go with the 1.5 litre of Shiraz from costco at $8.50 it’s four days worth, so it’s a bargain. I can’t do chuck, just cant get into it. Blackstone is the other fav, costco has the white label for about $11, it is noticeably better than the copper label but even that is a fine daily.

The best daily, combination weekenders are the cameron hughes wines at costco. They vary since cameron is a broker and owns no grapes. He is basically a costco employee and that is the only place you can find it. The Stagg’s leap cab at $12 was a godsend, the lot 16 meritage is still my favorite but my stock is low. The trouble with the camerons is that they arey are all one time deals, when they sell out that’s it forever. Their business model is impressive, no marketing, no advertising, no distributor, every bottle is paid in full by costco before it is labeled and they can sell it for 30-40 cents on the dollar. http://chwine.com/

Their tempranillo is a bit high for a cameron at $21, but a love temp, so I think that is my next endeavor. Don’t screw around when buying cameron, it can sell out forever in a day. I have frieds in different parts of the state that I sometimes call upon to buy me a case when it’s sold out locally. Lately I’ll buy one bottle, run to the car, open it, taste it, and if I like it, head back in and get a case. It may sound crazy but more than once I’ve taken one home and returned the next day only to find out it’s sold out forever. When they are good they are damn good.

[temeculaguy]

Wine for me has three categories: daily swill, date or weekend wine and special occasion or collection/library wine.

Daily swill requires it to be under $10 for 750ml, as a two glass a night guy, that is my $5 a day overhead. Weekend wine can go up to $30 and the collecter stuff has about a $100 cieling with some exceptions, but I only buy 4 or 5 a year and prefer to buy $50 wines and age them ten years.

Some of you mentioned my favorite dailies, Menage is my standard, love it. If I have to pick a Yellow tail, i’d go with the 1.5 litre of Shiraz from costco at $8.50 it’s four days worth, so it’s a bargain. I can’t do chuck, just cant get into it. Blackstone is the other fav, costco has the white label for about $11, it is noticeably better than the copper label but even that is a fine daily.

The best daily, combination weekenders are the cameron hughes wines at costco. They vary since cameron is a broker and owns no grapes. He is basically a costco employee and that is the only place you can find it. The Stagg’s leap cab at $12 was a godsend, the lot 16 meritage is still my favorite but my stock is low. The trouble with the camerons is that they arey are all one time deals, when they sell out that’s it forever. Their business model is impressive, no marketing, no advertising, no distributor, every bottle is paid in full by costco before it is labeled and they can sell it for 30-40 cents on the dollar. http://chwine.com/

Their tempranillo is a bit high for a cameron at $21, but a love temp, so I think that is my next endeavor. Don’t screw around when buying cameron, it can sell out forever in a day. I have frieds in different parts of the state that I sometimes call upon to buy me a case when it’s sold out locally. Lately I’ll buy one bottle, run to the car, open it, taste it, and if I like it, head back in and get a case. It may sound crazy but more than once I’ve taken one home and returned the next day only to find out it’s sold out forever. When they are good they are damn good.

[temeculaguy]

Wine for me has three categories: daily swill, date or weekend wine and special occasion or collection/library wine.

Daily swill requires it to be under $10 for 750ml, as a two glass a night guy, that is my $5 a day overhead. Weekend wine can go up to $30 and the collecter stuff has about a $100 cieling with some exceptions, but I only buy 4 or 5 a year and prefer to buy $50 wines and age them ten years.

Some of you mentioned my favorite dailies, Menage is my standard, love it. If I have to pick a Yellow tail, i’d go with the 1.5 litre of Shiraz from costco at $8.50 it’s four days worth, so it’s a bargain. I can’t do chuck, just cant get into it. Blackstone is the other fav, costco has the white label for about $11, it is noticeably better than the copper label but even that is a fine daily.

The best daily, combination weekenders are the cameron hughes wines at costco. They vary since cameron is a broker and owns no grapes. He is basically a costco employee and that is the only place you can find it. The Stagg’s leap cab at $12 was a godsend, the lot 16 meritage is still my favorite but my stock is low. The trouble with the camerons is that they arey are all one time deals, when they sell out that’s it forever. Their business model is impressive, no marketing, no advertising, no distributor, every bottle is paid in full by costco before it is labeled and they can sell it for 30-40 cents on the dollar. http://chwine.com/

Their tempranillo is a bit high for a cameron at $21, but a love temp, so I think that is my next endeavor. Don’t screw around when buying cameron, it can sell out forever in a day. I have frieds in different parts of the state that I sometimes call upon to buy me a case when it’s sold out locally. Lately I’ll buy one bottle, run to the car, open it, taste it, and if I like it, head back in and get a case. It may sound crazy but more than once I’ve taken one home and returned the next day only to find out it’s sold out forever. When they are good they are damn good.

[temeculaguy]

sdrealtor, you are right about relationships with the merchants, I am a huge supporter of drinking your way inside. The independant merchants as well as the independant winemakers have a passion for their wine, once they see you share it, they treat you differently. Those after hours tasting events are great for finding what you like.

I’m pretty blessed for living within 5 miles of 30 wineries. They all have a wine club and for a local it makes sense to join, for about $180 a year, you get 2 bottles every other month and you and a guest drink free all year, plus they always have a variety of events. I maintain 2 memberships at all times and rotate them every six months to a year, before going to dinner or if anyone is visiting from out of town, a tasting trip is an absolute must. Weekdays at the wineries is a whole different ballgame, tip the pourer big at the onset, develop a rep and they break out the winethief (a turkey baster like contraption) and hit the barrels in the back.

[temeculaguy]

sdrealtor, you are right about relationships with the merchants, I am a huge supporter of drinking your way inside. The independant merchants as well as the independant winemakers have a passion for their wine, once they see you share it, they treat you differently. Those after hours tasting events are great for finding what you like.

I’m pretty blessed for living within 5 miles of 30 wineries. They all have a wine club and for a local it makes sense to join, for about $180 a year, you get 2 bottles every other month and you and a guest drink free all year, plus they always have a variety of events. I maintain 2 memberships at all times and rotate them every six months to a year, before going to dinner or if anyone is visiting from out of town, a tasting trip is an absolute must. Weekdays at the wineries is a whole different ballgame, tip the pourer big at the onset, develop a rep and they break out the winethief (a turkey baster like contraption) and hit the barrels in the back.

[temeculaguy]

sdrealtor, you are right about relationships with the merchants, I am a huge supporter of drinking your way inside. The independant merchants as well as the independant winemakers have a passion for their wine, once they see you share it, they treat you differently. Those after hours tasting events are great for finding what you like.

I’m pretty blessed for living within 5 miles of 30 wineries. They all have a wine club and for a local it makes sense to join, for about $180 a year, you get 2 bottles every other month and you and a guest drink free all year, plus they always have a variety of events. I maintain 2 memberships at all times and rotate them every six months to a year, before going to dinner or if anyone is visiting from out of town, a tasting trip is an absolute must. Weekdays at the wineries is a whole different ballgame, tip the pourer big at the onset, develop a rep and they break out the winethief (a turkey baster like contraption) and hit the barrels in the back.

[temeculaguy]

sdrealtor, you are right about relationships with the merchants, I am a huge supporter of drinking your way inside. The independant merchants as well as the independant winemakers have a passion for their wine, once they see you share it, they treat you differently. Those after hours tasting events are great for finding what you like.

I’m pretty blessed for living within 5 miles of 30 wineries. They all have a wine club and for a local it makes sense to join, for about $180 a year, you get 2 bottles every other month and you and a guest drink free all year, plus they always have a variety of events. I maintain 2 memberships at all times and rotate them every six months to a year, before going to dinner or if anyone is visiting from out of town, a tasting trip is an absolute must. Weekdays at the wineries is a whole different ballgame, tip the pourer big at the onset, develop a rep and they break out the winethief (a turkey baster like contraption) and hit the barrels in the back.

[temeculaguy]

sdrealtor, you are right about relationships with the merchants, I am a huge supporter of drinking your way inside. The independant merchants as well as the independant winemakers have a passion for their wine, once they see you share it, they treat you differently. Those after hours tasting events are great for finding what you like.

I’m pretty blessed for living within 5 miles of 30 wineries. They all have a wine club and for a local it makes sense to join, for about $180 a year, you get 2 bottles every other month and you and a guest drink free all year, plus they always have a variety of events. I maintain 2 memberships at all times and rotate them every six months to a year, before going to dinner or if anyone is visiting from out of town, a tasting trip is an absolute must. Weekdays at the wineries is a whole different ballgame, tip the pourer big at the onset, develop a rep and they break out the winethief (a turkey baster like contraption) and hit the barrels in the back.

[sdrealtor]

TG,
While I dont get to drink as much I have pretty much the same categories. I call my bottom category Hun Wine as in when Atilla and the Huns roll in to raid my wine closet. I am also fortunate to have a very good friend nearby (one of many who I’ve known since we were 1 year old) who is a serious collector (was up to about 1000 bottles but has drunk his way down into the 600’s) that shares some of his best with me. My favorite thing to do is to go to his storage locker in the OC on a Saturday night where the have open house events. Usually 20 to 30 people show up and try to out do each other with something special from the collection. You would go nuts there. They even have a 50 inch plasma for watching games.

sdr

ps Love the winethief

[sdrealtor]

TG,
While I dont get to drink as much I have pretty much the same categories. I call my bottom category Hun Wine as in when Atilla and the Huns roll in to raid my wine closet. I am also fortunate to have a very good friend nearby (one of many who I’ve known since we were 1 year old) who is a serious collector (was up to about 1000 bottles but has drunk his way down into the 600’s) that shares some of his best with me. My favorite thing to do is to go to his storage locker in the OC on a Saturday night where the have open house events. Usually 20 to 30 people show up and try to out do each other with something special from the collection. You would go nuts there. They even have a 50 inch plasma for watching games.

sdr

ps Love the winethief

[sdrealtor]

TG,
While I dont get to drink as much I have pretty much the same categories. I call my bottom category Hun Wine as in when Atilla and the Huns roll in to raid my wine closet. I am also fortunate to have a very good friend nearby (one of many who I’ve known since we were 1 year old) who is a serious collector (was up to about 1000 bottles but has drunk his way down into the 600’s) that shares some of his best with me. My favorite thing to do is to go to his storage locker in the OC on a Saturday night where the have open house events. Usually 20 to 30 people show up and try to out do each other with something special from the collection. You would go nuts there. They even have a 50 inch plasma for watching games.

sdr

ps Love the winethief

[sdrealtor]

TG,
While I dont get to drink as much I have pretty much the same categories. I call my bottom category Hun Wine as in when Atilla and the Huns roll in to raid my wine closet. I am also fortunate to have a very good friend nearby (one of many who I’ve known since we were 1 year old) who is a serious collector (was up to about 1000 bottles but has drunk his way down into the 600’s) that shares some of his best with me. My favorite thing to do is to go to his storage locker in the OC on a Saturday night where the have open house events. Usually 20 to 30 people show up and try to out do each other with something special from the collection. You would go nuts there. They even have a 50 inch plasma for watching games.

sdr

ps Love the winethief

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