This will be my fifth year buying and still second wave on 3 March.
Ive been waiting since at least 2016. Have bought m etain at times but not always or lately
Still waiting for the email…I bought a 3 pack last year.
Starting to worry.
It would be nice if these critics would actually evaluate this wine and others in a blind setting. WA 100, V 99, so predictable and overinflated!. No margin for something superior.
I guess I’m first wave. I have been buying since the 2005 vintage. I drink them from time to time on important occasions. Are they worth it? Only if you can afford it. You can probably buy 3, sell 2, and make out OK, but I’ve never done that, so I do not really know.
Like a few others, this is my first time off of the waitlist and I’m in wave 3 (Mar 10). Fingers crossed there will be bottles left, but won’t get my hopes up…
So, is the waitlist gone and everyone is in the ‘3rd wave’?
March 3rd got my email yesterday
March 3 it is. Since M Etain went up quite a bit, I am guessing a $100 per bottle price jump.
According to my email, in March 2019.
First year off the waitlist. March 10th. My guess is I got on the waitlist sometime in 2019.
Feb 24 here. We just drank a 2010 on Friday and it was excellent, even with a short decant ( < 1 hour ) . $500 may be the breaking point, I think the first vintage I got was '07 for under $200 IIRC
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2/24 for me.
Same situation as Frank Z, WL last year but didn’t get it, now in the March 3rd wave.
March 3rd…$500 Wow!!!
Right around the time they said they’d never raise the price above that
When did everyone receive the email? I’ve purchase last 3 vintages but no email yet
My recollection is of a Wine Spectator story in the early 2000s with the owner being quoted as saying the price wouldn’t go above $150 (maybe it was $125?) per bottle because the wine should be accessible and drunk. I dropped off the list after 2007.
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Got mine yesterday (Monday) afternoon, eastern time.
I’ve purchased every vintage since the inaugural vintage. Here are the historical prices per bottle and annual percentage increase. Compounded it’s 10.58% annually.
2003 - $100
2004 - $125 25%
2005 - $150 20%
2006 - $175 25%
2007 - $225 28.5%
2008 - $225 0%
2009 - $250 11%
2010 - $250 0%
2011 - $250 0%
2012 - $285 14%
2013 - $300 5.3%
2014 - $330 10%
2015 - $350 6%
2016 - $400 14.3%
2017 - $400 0%
2018 - $450 12.5%
2019 - ?