"That Wine is Out of Stock"

[Woodman]

Continuing from the chardonnay thread (which started out as a champagne thread) here's one for y'all. I'd love to get your comments.

The '96 Pierre Damoy Burgundies just hit town. I've had the Clos de Beze recommended very highly to me, and was thinking of buying some with the insane money I'm getting by auctioning off some of my '95 Whitehall Lane Reserve.

What makes this a better story is that the wine is directly imported by a company here in Portland, so we get to miss a markup and it's selling for the same price as what WineClub sells it for. Further, since I have one retailer who will sell me 6 bottles ordered in advance for cost plus 10%, I can buy this (in theory at least) for less than $60, which would qualify as a screaming deal on Grand Cru Burgundy of this caliber.

Here's the rub -- I'm going to call my retailer today and see if he can get some. What odds is anyone giving me that it will be "out of stock"? Guaranteed, they didn't move their whole stock of $80 wine in a few days so it's more likely "we have 10 cases but we've reserved it for restaurants and our good customers".

Anyone?????