We really enjoy Littorai, but when I put my six pack in for the current offering, it ended up at around $700 total. I’m having a hard time pulling the trigger on this, considering all the other excellent Pinot at much lower prices. Paying twice for shipping on a six pack doesn’t help. (Releases in March and Sep in a single offering.)
Wrestling now with do I just bite the bullet and pull the trigger, as I have on so many other releases so far in 2018, or put the brakes on. It’s one of our favorite Pinots, but for some reason (and the reason is strictly the high price) this one is turning into the one that is making me draw the proverbial line.
Would appreciate thoughts here, and what you guys are doing. I think it’s only open through today.
As an aside, School House Pinot, for example (fabulous if you don’t know it) made so much wine in their current vintage release that they actually signficantly lowered their price!
Alex,
I am basically in the same boat. I uncorked a 2013 Savoy yesterday to see if that could help me decide…loved the wine but with only so many wine dollars to spread around, I decided to take a pass. At one time I was a “club” member but that got expensive, so I dropped off of that. Fortunately I have enough in the cellar to enjoy and that impacted my decision as well…
I’m an annual buyer and a big fan of the quality but agree about the pricing and quirky shipping rules. The appellation Pinot pricing is more puzzling to me. Those wines were $42 five years ago, now $60.
I’m passing on this offer as well. I have 51 bottles of Littorai already, enough to enjoy over the next ten years. Not a fan of the steady price increases and shipping and I’m trying to rebalance our inventory to more European wines.
I am a fan of Littorai and I hear you.
Just recently had a bottle of 2013 Betwixt Wines Pinot Helluva Vineyard and if I closed my eyes I could have been fooled that it was a Les Larmes. Tim is a great guy and friend of the board and I wholeheartedly recommend you reach out to him and give it a try.
I do purchase my Littorai at retail in NYC when it arrives. The winery shipping is ridiculous.
I had to stop buying them a couple of years ago. Seems like all the Pinot I enjoy is creeping way up there in price - my tracking spreadsheet says my average cost is now just under $80 per bottle (with shipping and tax). Something else is going to have to give pretty soon. I’m trying the appellation wines from several producers this year. I like the extra complexity from a mix of vineyards and the extra cost for the single vineyard wines is not worth it to me.