I wouldn’t judge much based on the color of a cell phone pic on the interweb. I’ve snapped dozens of pictures with my phone where the color of the photo isn’t anywhere near what it is in actuality.
Weird lighting, dirty lens, shadows…you name it.
I don’t think mark has ever been shy about him putting his stuff on winebid. He even linked some of them before (Bouchard Monty). Can’t fault a guy for making a buck. Probably could fault winebid though
The argument can be made that the SWC has been at this same location since it was first distributed. So when Mark bought them, he was the first and original owner from retail.
Well - I don’t suppose we can consider the retailer to be an owner in these cases. I suppose it’s just very rare for such a bottle to be unowned for a couple decades. Almost no doubt that they’re his though. 10 bottles in the trunk, 8 bottles on Wine Bid, one drunk very recently and one supposedly on deck for a friend’s birthday “later this month”.
If that’s the case, I need to reconsider the buying I’ve been doing on Winebid. I’ve had good luck until now, but I would think that someone his age saying they’re the original owner of a 26 year old bottle of wine would raise a question. Winebid is local out here in Elmhurst, so I’m making the assumption he would deal with the guy there instead of shipping them to Napa.
I think the way that Mark goes about acquiring and selling wine is a bit unique. I’m pretty sure he’s hitting up mom and pop stores that don’t have an electronic inventory and buying wines that haven’t been re-listed in price over the years. I’m sure it happens, but pretty rarely.
I realize the “troll” comment may have been made in jest, but do you consider this trolling (posting a new thread about a wine and giving it 93 points after (it seems) he put it up on Winebid)?
My scores are always a reflection of how much I enjoy a wine. The bottles went to auction last night; long after my tasting note was posted. Also, I was not the one who posted the link to the auction.
Now hold on a second. In what sense is Mark “concerned about the condition of the wine?” As far as he’s told us, these wines have sat in a dark cellar until he recently purchased them, so that counts at good storage condition (it’s not as though wine has to have been at 55 degrees in a Eurocave unit all its life in order to be considered good enough to resell). And he tasted a bottle and liked it, as far as we know.
The only concerns stem from other people thinking the color looked on the darker side based on one cell phone photo, and him using one descriptor in a TN that he considered a positive but other people think might be a sign up suboptimal storage. I’m not sure that means he needs to issue some warning to buyers based on a few other people on an internet message board expressing those opinions.