Where was the “case or two” option for the pallet buyers?
2-3 bottles are enough for me.
This.
Usually two or three, except that I will buy up to a case from a new-to-me producer on Berserkerday.
I get 3 so I can open the first one guilt-free.
Getting 2 deters me from opening any because I don’t like orphan bottles.
1 Like
What he said.
With Burgs you may not get a second chance at rarities of a new vintage at a good price, so 1-2 for me for a bona-fide unknown, 2-3 for a semi-unknown.
If the person whispering in my ear is @Mike_Evans or @Greg_K or any of you big bottle boys and girls of Berserker Burgdom, then I’m listening. But I’m numb to ad copy like “Promising female winemaker ABC may only be 11 years old, but her maternal grandmother’s three-legged schnauzer used to pee on the oak tree in front of Henri Jayer’s house!* Basically, it depends.
If bottles are under $150 it’s easier to buy more on a flyer, but the word would need to be pretty good for me to buy 3 blindly these days. I enjoy the shopping hunt, but I don’t want 1001 cellar defenders.
I don’t buy 3+ unless I know the producer, vineyard and/or have tasted that wine and it suits my hamster palate: A known quantity, to the extent that it’s possible in the whack-a-mole minefield that is Burgundy.
Occasionally will buy 6-12 if I love it, and price is right. Talkin’ to you, Fevre Chablis, Bouchard Le Corton, Fourrier Gevrey vv, Prum Wehlener Kab/Spat, Audoin Favieres, champagnes (Suenen BdB, Marguet mixed cases, ditto Ployez, Comte and, and)
Every year I buy a couple cases of Raventos i Blanc BdB Cava as all right-thinking oeno-esthetes do. It’s a screaming value, preserves your precious champagne hoard, plays well with food, and a bottle (or three) makes a good “bring” to any potluck.
4 Likes
Now that’s terroir!
1 Like
As I want to taste every wine that’s ever been made, I have a strong aversion to buying multiple bottles, so I answered 1. But there have been exceptions, although I rarely go above 3.
But yes, I own cases and cases of Pegau, Jacqueson and Duplessis.
3 for reasonably priced bottles. Drink one in maybe a month. Drink the next one when I get the next allocation email. Need to make a determination whether to buy more.
Two, if it’s really a flyer (i.e., not at a deep discount, where price is the motivator.).
Usually 2-3 just to try out.
3-4 mostly. One for PnP and the others are to taste for the next few years. 6-12 for allocation wines.
1 Like
As always, all advice free or your money back!
Used to be 3 but after getting burned too many times and with buying slowdowns I am done with flyers.
One. Occasionally two. Extremely rarely three or four, and these are on futures sure to be rare later.