Cellar Defenders

Definitely restrictions but I used it to buy a Caymus mag yesterday for birthday gift. They have the same offer in the paper to use in store
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Cool. Looks like some of their usual restrictions.

2015 Vietti Barbera d’Asti Tre Vigne $15

A nice wine for that mid-week glass or two with dinner.

They don’t offer the coupons in Missouri. I think they haven’t figured out how to get them to work with some quirks of state law. They do have the 10% off 6 bottles special for most wines.

Good call.

A decent piece on bargain wines, or how price doesn’t necessarily correlate to quality:

A Piece of Earth: Terroir – Rhoda Stewart’s Journal on Wine
“A Price is Not a Score”
May 25, 2013

“As Kermit Lynch, owner of Kermit Lynch Wine Merchants, Berkeley, CA, said to me a few years ago:

“‘I think a lot of people, not in France, not in Italy, but in California and maybe the rest of the U.S., think that price is a score; that a $300 bottle of wine is better than a $100 a bottle . . . .That’s completely false. Price is no reflection of quality. You can get such good wines for cheap.'”



It wasn’t too long ago that vineyard-designated wines (especially Zinfandel) were considered a “gimic” to squeeze a few extra dollars out of consumers, as many fine vineyards were tapped by producers of high quality wines for their county/AVA-level bottlings.

Even today, wine aficionados struggle to define terroir with respect to their favorite single-vineyard Zinfandel, Cabernet, or Pinot Noir wines. Few of us are geologists, viticulturalists, etc. Those who are still cannot put their fingers on the mechanism where vine roots uptake specific quantities of soil elements indemic to prized vineyards.

More importantly, a winery that has secured buyers’ trust will be almost certain to sell every product in its lineup. If so-and-so makes a phenomenal $50 wine, the quality of its $20 wine is most likely a safe bet.

I am speaking from a very US-centric perspective in this matter, of course. If you drink wines from a European region where there are no inexpensive counterparts to the cellar-worthy, I think you are not looking hard enough. Value is everywhere. This thread’s recommendations prove it to be so. For that, I am grateful for the community of good-will native to Wine Berserkers.


TL;DR: I didn’t make any specific recommendations. There are 15 other threads on this topic! :stuck_out_tongue:

Meerlust Rubicon - had it on my honeymoon in SA for first time so it holds a special place but can be found pretty easily for under $35

I like this thread. Grabbed some Produttori barbaresco, working grabbing some of their Langhe, grabbed some Substance and St Michelle cabs, and bought a case of Senejac and Lanessan on futures.

Also grabbed a handful of Dirty and Rowdy Unfamiliar Mourvèdre which should make a solid defender