Give away cellared wine - Seattle area

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I want to give away/get rid of a bunch of wine. I want to gauge if there’s any interest out there in taking this off my hands. This is from a wine cellar I was building up but am now abandoning due to divorce.

The wine in question is:
Around 130 bottles
Mostly red, but has a few whites mixed in
Mostly bought from Garagiste and Full Pull between 2013 and 2020
Average price of $20 per bottle, usually from good vintages with the hope that quality would cascade down to lesser bottlings
From USA, Italy, France, Spain, and a few other places, in descending order of proportion
Cellared in an actual cellar for much of its time, so not perfect storage but decent

I’m not particularly interested in selling this. I’m also not particularly interested in shipping it, so I was wondering if there might be interest in local pickup in Seattle. If one person wants all of it, great, but if multiple people want some maybe I could do a “mystery box” thing like Garagiste used to do.

Is there any interest in this? I’ve posted this on Wine Berserkers and the Cellar Tracker forums, but are there other forums I ought to post this in? I’m not really active on discussion boards so any suggestions folks have would be welcome. Thanks, all!

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Another thought is to see if you can donate them to a local charity that could use them for auction items at a gala or event. A place like Make A Wish or your local pediatric hospital come to mind - a friend here in MN donated a number of cases to the MN chapter of Make a Wish and they were gratefully received. Would put the wines to good use and give you the bonus of a tax deduction.

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Dang. I have a friend who is in the car who just left Seattle to come visit me here in Willamette Valley. Bad timing!

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I’m in Seattle… I could probably take them off your hands, if you really don’t want them and nobody else does. Thanks for the kind offer!

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I have a friend that would take some off your hands.

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Thanks for this thought. I actually made some inquiries and gave some away, but I’m out of further ideas on that now! :slight_smile:

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It seems like there might be multiple people interested in this, so I’ll probably go for the mystery-box-giveaway option. Please DM me if you’re interested in taking part in that!

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I’m also in Seattle. Would love to help. Additionally, I’m sure there are some orgs that could give you a tax write off if desired.