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RAD · 07-23-2002, 05:50 PM,

Howdy all--

Been underwater with work! Popped open one of these tonight (only 2 left from a case @ $9.99 from lawineco.com--one of my better purchases), and used it as the occasion to pop in and say howdy. Killer juice. Miss you guys!

Okay, enough of the sentimentality. Getting off-topic here, but I haven't been around much, so please oblige. Had the 99 Martinelli Reserve pinot again the other night with grilled salmon (I've posted on this wine before). If you can find it, you won't be disappointed! (Same goes for this 97 Burgess zin.)

Hope all's well--

RAD

winoweenie · 07-24-2002, 05:51 AM,

All Work & none Play Make Radski Thirsty? WW

mrdutton · 07-30-2002, 06:37 PM,

Yeah, I am thirsty....... so I checked my supply and I'm all out of the Burgess Zin.....

Still got three bottles of the 1990 Burgess CS, but the zin is gone. Oh darn.

hotwine · 07-30-2002, 06:49 PM,

Howdy, Mike. You've been mighty quiet...

eskinnyc · 04-19-2003, 10:34 PM,

I just found the 1999 Burgess Zin here in Manhattan for only $10 / bottle. Its smooth, well-balanced, with somewhat restrained fruit but a beautiful spicy edge. At that price I really can't recommend it highly enough.

The pricing issues do seem strange though, as above someone saw the same thing happen in LA with the 97. Do wineries ever "dump" excess wine on the market?

winoweenie · 04-20-2003, 08:16 AM,

Luckily for some of the more astute buyers ie;Drew, it happens alla' time. Keep them eyes and ears on the bins guys! Untold riches could befall you.WW [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]

Thomas · 04-20-2003, 12:41 PM,

Sometimes the dumping is done not by the winery but by its distributor, when sales become stagnant. In general, a wine producer isn't happy to dump products below regular retail.

stevebody · 04-30-2003, 06:25 PM,

Ditto to above. Distributors here in Sea-patch have dumped prodigious quantities of leftover '97s and '96s this spring, due to the downturn in sales and the recession in general. Another time, they might have held on to them and gambled on selling them off as a sort of library selection later on but this year everyone's selling short to generate cash.

We've gotten case lots of the '96 Condado de Haza that we sold at $12 a bottle, seven cases of the Thunder Mountain Cabernet '97 that originally retailed for $55, we sold at $13, and the '98 Montirius Gignodas that we're still selling at $9 a bottle, just to name three.

In the Zin category, we're about to pick up some backdated Ballentine Napa that will go for $10 per. My mouth is watering over that already.

BTW, I'd put the Bogle Old Vines up against the Zabaco or the Burgess any day of the week, for even less $$$. Another odd, obscure Zin I've found that I just loved was the Gnekow Family's Campus Oaks Zin, about $12, that is some of the ripest, most generous stuff I've had in a while. Hard to find here, at any rate, but well worth the search.

stevebody · 04-30-2003, 06:26 PM,

BTW, refreshing to find a two-page thread that didn't begin with me pi__ing somebody off.

ShortWiner · 05-01-2003, 01:32 PM,

eskinnyc--
What store did you find 'em at?

eskinnyc · 05-01-2003, 03:16 PM,

If I recall, it was a tiny hole-in-the-wall wine shop on 9th Ave b/w 56 & 57 in Hell's Kitchen.

Thats one of the things I love about New York, there are wine shops *everywhere*. Most of them are overpriced with a banal selection, but you never know what diamonds you'll find in the rough...

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