What wines do you like and would regularly buy, or stopped buying but would restart, if the prices dropped 25%?
I think most of us had wines we bought for some time, but then the prices moved up to where they weren’t affordable, become more expensive than other alternatives, or otherwise just stopped being a buy, and we all or mostly fell away.
And there were other wines we tried, liked them and were interested in starting to buy, but saw the prices were just a little higher than what would get you started being a customer
To be clear, the point of this question is not to criticize wineries and/or the retail chain for pricing wines too high, to tell anyone they ought to sell their wines for less, or anything like that. And if you’re answering the question correctly, it should be wines you like very much that are in your answer – if it’s a wine you don’t like, then the price coming down 25% shouldn’t be of interest to you. So this isn’t the thread for tirades about overpriced vodka blueberry milkshakes and other things you don’t like.
This also doesn’t have to be just new world mailing list wines, it can be any kinds of wines that you like but whose price has crept above (but not too far above) your “buy” point.
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For me, I’ve liked Rhys, but between accumulating a lot of it and the prices getting up there, I’m down to very little or no activity. Yet if the price dropped 25% ($79 Alpine Chardonnay at $59.25), I’d still be buying a decent amount.
Tyler is a winery I really like, but I look at the email releases wistfully, and the pricing is just a little high for me to click buy. Plus, they usually sell for under, and sometimes well under, release at retail.
I’ve been buying Sea Smoke Southing every year since the 2002 vintage, but they bumped the price way up to $80 last year, and I’m right on the edge. I’ll maybe buy a couple bottles a year, but I’d be happily buying 6+ a year if the price were $60.
A number of Barolo producers have shot out of my price range, particularly G Mascarello, yet I’m not even sure 25% would bring them back to where I’d buy more than a bottle or two on a rare occasion.
I’ve accumulated a decent amount of PYCM (mostly the lesser appellation ones) the last several years, but I think I’m just about out now and looking for a next PYCM. 25% lower prices would still have me buying it regularly.
How about you?