I am not buying any Winery Direct wine. None of it looks worthwhile imho.
Most of their Bdx is “winery direct” and sometimes there are deals there with the right “winery direct” promotion. Otherwise, I agree - I’ve never found anything “winery direct” that was worthwhile, or at least that was worth the effort to search out just to use a one-time coupon.
I’ve blown through most of these. Are there any new $50/150 or 200 codes?
TIA
comeback50 50/200 still works
totalwine don’t have good deals with wine. Macallan they have pretty good price
Yeah, but then you have to be able to stomach Macallan.
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I’m holding out for a RMN 20% and eyeing the 2014 Bouchard Chambolle for 59.99, anyone had this? Love Chambolle, especially at the price the cash back/coupon stack would result in.
Sadly total wine hasn’t had good deals in over 2 years when they raised the bordeaux and burgundy prices due to the tariffs and general price gouging. Capitalizing on their brand and customer base really. More power to them but I haven’t found a deal there in forever
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Yeah - it’s strange because their en primeur pricing is very competitive, but in-store is terrible.
Yeah, they raised the prices because of the reported tariffs towards the end of 2019. They had great deals on bordeaux in-store before the tariffs. I’m not sure why they elected to raise the prices on in stock items besides the money grab angle.
Isn’t Cadence winery direct at TW?
Yup. I’ve pretty much given up on TW. Even with their regular emailers, and coupons, the pricing still sucks.
I just don’t get how their pricing on almost everything else can be so good.
Looks like RMN went to 10% this morning on WDC as the new month started (it was 5% yesterday). I have a lot in my cart (FL warehouse Italian inventory has recently been restocked) and am holding out for 20%.
I live in Seattle, all my wine.com orders come from the California warehouse. Easy route, shipping usually takes two days. A couple of bottles I ordered back in February during a 20% RMN bonanza were sent from CA, through Utah and Wyoming, and are currently in Minnesota. Not sure if it’s a WDC issue or a FedEx issue but, uh, wtf…
Some of this is just the pandemic, once liquor stores were classed as ‘essential services’ and Americans starting drinking more, and at home, TW were off to the races in revenues. I popped in to our local one recently, and there are massive stock out issues, clumsily concealed by sticking other bottles into the wrong slots, or just duplicating bottles over and over.
TW have always struck me as a merchant who cared about margins on an item by item basis, rather than being concerned with that on an overall basis.
Agree on en primeur, and they only require a 50% deposit. Used to get pappy at retail every year after buying enough futures but now they have some stupid lottery system and they randomly offer 10x point multipliers so unless you only buy during those weekends the whole points thing is essentially worthless and there is no benefit for spending a ton of dough there. At least in NorCal where I am, store has gone way downhill in last 6 years, including quality of employees. Now I order online almost exclusively.
Everything that happens after “sent from CA” is a FedEx issue.
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If you bought bdx futures from Total Wines then tariff hit, who pays?
I got it in writing from them, that if tariffs were to be in effect at the time of arrival, I could cancel. Actually i can cancel for any reason. However, they would not eat the cost of the tariffs. You would have the option to pay them or get a refund on your deposit.
Will they hold your wines in storage in EU for 1 year free?