Move to PA 
Just be glad you are in Oregon and not here if you like wine.
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I was pissed that FWGS wonāt ship $7 Fel Anderson Valley Pinot to CA, but then I realized I only live 45 mins away from (fvckass Temecula) wine country. You win some you lose some 
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See. This is someone who understands.
Donāt worry, you guys are not missing out. Iāve never been able to successfully purchase anything from their website anyways. It always removes it from my cart when I go to enter payment method.
FWGS is a state store.
The only way to take adavtage of the fwgs fuckery is to spend a saturday driving to like 6 locations and btowsing individual stores. If you can do that, yes you will find some scores.
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Especially when you start the day in DC!
Are you looking at the 10% off or the cleance? I see lots of great clearance deals, though many are in-store only and on the other side of the commonweath once I go through the awkward store search.
Clearance Wine - Wine
Yesterday was 10% off everything that wasnāt already on clearance. That sale is over now.
Yes, and as I and others noted, 10% off PA prices is still very expensive. OTOH, the clearance has some real deals. Iād posted that I thought Michael may have conflated clearance and 10% sale in his discussion of Bdx prices.
Must be stuff I didnāt get around to checking. I gave up after checking about a half-dozen Bordeaux. Glad you found some deals.
Krug mags were 500, 19 Rousseau Chambertin was 2675, krug rose mags were 900 etc
After 30% off or before?
After
Oh yeah, I would say I virtually never buy from PA wine and spirits. The wines are horribly stored and priced. This is the literal only good deal Iāve seen in a while that was at all to my taste that I thought others might like.
The clearance prices on the super pricey bordeaux bottles are good, but many of those bottles have been sitting upright in a non-temperature controlled storage with wide temperature fluctuations or just on a store shelf exposed to UV light at various times. Iād be loath to spend anywhere near that much money on a bottle of wine from them.
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They are not. The first growths are stored in temperature controlled storage. Please donāt comment on things you donāt have experience with.
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Are they stored that way in transit as well? I ask because Iāve gotten bottles (not fancy ones) that tasted like they were heat damaged from FWGS stores before. Youād hope theyād care more about the pricey stuffā¦but a lot of things with FWGS are inexplicable, like the fact that their website has been broken for years, and that you can ship orders to a home address for free, but not a store.
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Donāt order wine during the summer if youāre concerned about heat damage. I wouldnāt expect cold chain unless youāre actually paying for it. That all being said the transit time from FWGS is usually one day to anywhere in PA so thereās not a lot of time in transit: BTW I wouldnāt expect cheap wine to be stored in climate controlled settings from almost all retailers with the exception of a few online only sellers.
Iāve bought hundreds of bottles from the state store and they have been pristine and shown well, There are good values if you know where to look for them. Their website is fine; itās much better than something likeā¦ benchmark. The only annoying thing about their website is trying to buy whisky releases.
Iām not sure about their storage facilities but the bottles Iāve ordered have been fine. The stores are a crapshoot. I once drove an hour to buy a few bottles of a very-well priced but still expensive Champagne, only to find them on a shelf directly exposed to a sunny window. At this point, I would only buy from a store where I could see the provenance (no inter-store transfers).
Their top wines (stuff like first growths and Cristal, screaming eagle, whatever) are only at premium collection stores and always climate controlled. The stuff at random non-premium collection stores are likely hit/miss.
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