Total Wine-Winery and Spirits Direct Coupon

So we got our first Total Wine coupon .
Any winery or spirit direct recommendations?
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If it says Saranty Imports on the label…don’t buy…poor value.

Most of their non-first growth bdx is winery direct so eligible for the discount. In other categories, I can’t help you. Poke around their website to see which producers are labeled winery direct

As mentioned many times, selection varies big-time by location. If you’re looking for higher-end/more limited production stuff (using limited production in the sense of non-grocery store wines), hit up a store that’s located in what would be considered a higher-income area. Probably common sense but worth mentioning.

And the good news is lots if not most of their wine is winery-direct, so plenty to Choose from (as noted, especially with Bordeaux). Check out the stuff in the glass cases, but note the fine print about the coupon not applying to prices ended in a 7 (that means all the 1st growths and super high-end bottles arent an option).

I’m a fan of total wine if you go to the right location and use the coupons wisely.

Thanks all. We don’t drink/buy a lot of high end stuff but will check it out.

Bordeaux!!

I really love the 2014 Austin Hope GSM (from Paso). It’s fruit forward and bold, but also had nice complimentary spice flavors.

If you have a Chase credit card, you might be eligible for Cardlytics Chase Offer. They have 10% off at TW live right now. I used up one last month*, and they reloaded mine again. You can stack that with the coupon as well. (BOA, WF and some others also use that backend. These are like sad weak tea versions of Amex Offers)

  • I bought a bottle of Campari, which I then managed to shatter while putting away in the cluttered & cramped bar, thus making an incredible sticky, shard filled mess. Which the ignorant dog wanted to help by licking up. This is probably the first bottle of booze I can ever recall breaking.

Bilicart Rose is winery direct

I thought TW direct are private brands (maybe wrong term) of which I have never heard ?? Am I mistaken/wrong ??

Keep in mind that the Total Wine store in NY is (by law) not affiliated with any other Total Wine retail entity, which means that partnership offers like this are not necessarily valid in NY. NYS law does not allow them to be be affiliated with any other retail location, in or out of state. The NY store also doesn’t have a website other than a stub because they can’t link into the corporate site. Personally, I think it’s to their advantage to develop their own website to expose their inventory and enable selling to the whole state, but they don’t seem to be interested in doing that. They are walking a fine political line, and playing the long game, so they may have good reasons for making that choice.

They do have access to the Direct wines, presumably because that’s at the distributor level, not the retail level

They’re Direct Imports (a term that can apply to both foreign and domestic wines thanks to the peculiarities of the three tier system). I think there’s always a real winery (or perhaps, sometimes, a negociant) behind them.

Btw I’m in NY and would use the coupon there .

Nope, winery direct wines are, just like they sound, wines they procure directly from the winery and are mostly well known brands… Which I assume allows them better pricing and the ability to throw us common-folk a 20% off bone here/there :slight_smile:

The only thing I know about NYS wine laws is that Zachys is required to have the highest prices.

As said before I use mine solely for Bordeaux. Almost all in my area is winery direct.

I wouldn’t take “winery direct” too literally. Most of the bdx are labeled WD and are almost certainly bought through negociants. I suspect it is just a designation of wines on which they have pretty fat margins and can offer the discount

That’s probably spot on, especially in regards to Bordeaux - good call Neil!

Is anyone familiar with their WD offering Tupinier Bautista? I have no experience with anything from the Mercurey appellation.

My guess is that Winery Direct means they direct import, skipping the importer markup. Like Macarthurs.