Just about fell out of my seat reading the latest Kermit Lynch newsletter, touting their new online ordering portal. Looks like it’s still getting up to speed, with not all wines available online, but they claim that more are being added regularly. Gee, I might actually buy more of their wine now that I can do so without getting in my car. Brilliant!
I’m interested. Hard to go wrong with a Kermit Lynch wine. Like the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.
Looks like you have to have A LOT of confidence in the selections. Hopefully it fills out. Getting harder and harder in the retail space…
UNFORTUNATELY WE DO NOT SHIP DIRECTLY TO YOUR STATE.
Almost everyone else does 
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Yeah, they may be a bit behind the curve on ecommerce.
This is (finally) a great move. KL pretty much falls off the radar in this day and age with their lack of online inventory. They really do have a top-notch portfolio. To visit the shop in person can be a real pain on saturday since the tiny parking lot is dominated by patrons of the nieghboring bread company. Many times, in frustration of not finding a parking spot, I’ve simply moved on. This will certainly boost my interest.
Link?
Not unsurprisingly, the link is: http://www.kermitlynch.com/
I’m excited about this. I lived on Northside in 1985, my early 20s, and KL was my local wine store. I had no idea what I was doing when I went in, and I also had no idea that having them as my go-to neighborhood place was like having Thomas Keller running the local deli. I just knew they never steered me wrong when I was spending a big twelve bucks on a bottle of something. I wish I’d kept my receipts, if only to weep at what I drank, cheaply, too soon.
That said, there’s a mixed case of 2012 Tempier waiting for me there, and the new cafe that replaced Alice Waters’s old establishment is also quite fine.
KL has always been skittish about shipping. Well, for at least 15-20 years. Got into trouble with some regulator.
Received my first online order and delivery just after Thanksgiving without a hitch. Navigating and finding the limited online offerings is the typical KL pain in the arse, but once you get past that its smooth sailing.
On a related note, KL’s antiquated ordering process preventing me from trying their wines for years- they might be “just” across the bay from me, but its maybe 90 minutes away. It took a trip to NYC last year to discover one of the wines KL imports. Pretty silly in the era of amazon.com.
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LOL
Reminds me of when my I phone battery was going and for some reason I thought it could not be replaced.
My teenage niece was visiting and says “try Google Duh”
Weren’t their wholesale customers the ones keeping them from doing online ordering? Presumably distributors of Kermit Lynch wines in other states aren’t keen on having competition from the importer.
He maybe has a most favored nations thing going on? Cuz at a very quick glance the stuff I buy is not competitively priced.
I’m guessing that as the importer, he’s reluctant to undercut his retail customers.