Yup, have been to 3 DMV costcos in last several weeks and nothing. Frustrating how much better the CA /WA wine selections seem to be.
au contraire, mon frere!
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Funny, got the same answer form the Bevmo employees regarding Napanook while ago…never thought TWM staff can be that undertrained…
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Sunnyvale CA today:
2019 d’Issan $45.99
2019 petit smith haut lafitte $28.99
2019 echo de lynch bages $29.99
2014 cristal $299
2018 produttori del barbaresco $37.99
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2020 GPL showed up at Kirkland over the weekend. somewhere in the 60’s
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Chateau d’Isscount
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Irvine spectrum reloaded Leoville Barton and now has Laroque.
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#474 (Goleta, CA) had a new bump of 2019 BDX, including:
Leoville Barton $65 (about a case left)
Pavie Macquin $60
Cos d’Estournel $143 (2 bottles left)
Clerc Milon $62 (roughly, I think)
I should have bit on some Branaire Ducru a few weeks back for ~$37 per 750mL. Not making the same mistake again, I grabbed a couple of the Barton and a Pavie Macquin. For the price, I probably should have grabbed more Barton, but I don’t need a ton of Cabernet needing 15+ years to mature. Though I expect they’ll be great when the time is right 
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The Costco in Dallas at 75 and Churchill has moved on to 2020s, which from a price perspective are not as compelling. The 2019s flew off the shelf there and I didn’t even see some of the higher end bottles even though I am there at least once a week. I suspect there are a small coterie of big-time buyers (hoarders) that clear them out before they reach the shelves. They still have 2016 Belair Monange for $200+ though, which has been sitting there for a couple of years now. I have never seen marked down BDX at that Costco.
That’s where my previous picture was from. I grabbed a few 2020 d’Issans and some '18 Cantemerle today, but I never saw the influx of these 2019 2-5th growths in that Costco.
There’s also some Trotanoy, a 2012 Vega Sicilia Unico, and a couple of higher end Napa bottles, but they are way above reasonable prices.
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I got here when they opened today but they’re all out of LB, said no more is coming.
Some goodies though.
I am curious about two things.
Why they are selling 2019 under market. Not only under market, but below what I was buying them, so at or very close to cost?
How much stock do they have left?
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They’re simply following their policy of taking a (set) small margin.
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Mark, Costco purchased EP, and limits its markup to 14 or 15%, as with all other merchandise. At least, that is my understanding. Why are they selling now? I would guess their containers came in the last several months.
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Some analysts who follow Costco, think that the membership fees are nearly all pure profit, and that’s what they aim to maximize.
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One of our family members revealed (on Mother’s Day no less) that they had let their membership lapse, which deliberately cast a pall on what should have been a day of belonging, community, and consumption of Costco treats.
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No Bordeaux in Naples FL
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Sorry for your loss.
You were not there when they opened because I got the last three this morning. Sorry, Chris. 
I also hit the Huntington Beach, Garden Grove and Fountain Valley stores today.
- GG has zero Bordeaux that I could see. They only have one section of wooden wine bins at all.
- HB had limited selections of the basics seen at the other places.
- FV has the most of the four stores I went to today. Lots of '18 and '19. Its also spread out among the bins a lot. You have to check all around.
The prize here was '19 Pavie-Macquin at $60. They had a little over a case left at 7:30pm after I took four.
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I went back to my Costco and bough a couple more LB, still about a case left. The $65 price is literally once in a lifetime, at least in the forward looking direction. Others in the area had the opportunity to clean it out today . . . . maybe I’ll keep going back for 2 a day until it’s gone, yes that’s a threat folks
The Pavie-Macquin supply remains very healthy, probably around 2 cases in a bin. I am tempted. Though the Laroque sounds good, wish they had that locally.
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