Getting on in years and starting to plan a life without clinic and the OR means wine purchasing has begun its inevitable slowdown.
A bigtime Napa producer took my reduced purchase this year to heart as they sent me the few bottles I purchased in a package that was barely held together by Scotch tape!
In my worst hungover stupor I could not have done a worse job.
Bottles are intact and if I’m alive in a decade they’ll get uncorked but seriously, that was not quality in shipping.
I figured you were referring to the buying slowdown that is our current economy, across the board (other than toilet paper and bottled water for some stupid reason) due to coronavirus. I’m getting some interesting emails begging for business
One of my customers in New York City cancelled an appointment we had for next week. She’s expecting a business slowdown when everyone stops going to retail stores. I hope this is a one off, but still.
Then Glenn should communicate with the winery about their shipping service. There is way too much vindictiveness on this board to out a producer for something done by a shipping service.
Agreed - I’m just tired of wineries holding up their hands and saying that there’s nothing that can do about bad customer service or outrageous pricing from ‘third party shippers’. There is - they can make them accountable and/or switch companies
Cheers.
And David, so glad to hear you are doing better, my friend . . .
Great; wine is now cheap, but I can no longer afford it.
The least of our problems is wine. As we begin to cancel events, the economy goes into a tailspin. Airlines, hotels, restaurants lose business, and cut back staff.
People work from home, they don’t buy coffee or lunch, those business’ go under. But hey, I can buy Lafite for less than $200!